Water stress and cell wall polysaccharides in the apical root zone of wheat cultivars varying in drought tolerance |
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Authors: | Leucci Maria Rosaria Lenucci Marcello Salvatore Piro Gabriella Dalessandro Giuseppe |
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Affiliation: | Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali, Università del Salento, via prov.le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy. |
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Abstract: | Glycosyl composition and linkage analysis of cell wall polysaccharides were examined in apical root zones excised from water-stressed and unstressed wheat seedlings (Triticum durum Desf.) cv. Capeiti ("drought-tolerant") and cv. Creso ("drought sensitive"). Wall polysaccharides were sequentially solubilized to obtain three fractions: CDTA+Na(2)CO(3) extract, KOH extract and the insoluble residue (alpha-cellulose). A comparison between the two genotypes showed only small variations in the percentages of matrix polysaccharides (CDTA+Na(2)CO(3) plus KOH extract) and of the insoluble residues (alpha-cellulose) in water-stressed and unstressed conditions. Xylosyl, glucosyl and arabinosyl residues represented more than 90mol% of the matrix polysaccharides. The linkage analysis of matrix polysaccharides showed high levels of xyloglucans (23-39mol%), and arabinoxylans (38-48mol%) and a low amount of pectins and (1-->3), (1-->4)-beta-d-glucans. The high level of xyloglucans was supported by the release of the diagnostic disaccharide isoprimeverose after Driselase digestion of KOH-extracted polysaccharides. In the "drought-tolerant" cv. Capeiti the mol% of side chains of rhamnogalacturonan I and II significantly increased in response to water stress, whereas in cv. Creso, this increase did not occur. The results support a role of the pectic side chains during water stress response in a drought-tolerant wheat cultivar. |
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Keywords: | Cell wall polysaccharides Drought stress Root Triticum durum Wheat |
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