Overexpression of the tonoplast aquaporin AtTIP5;1 conferred tolerance to boron toxicity in Arabidopsis |
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Authors: | Yongqi Pang Lijuan Li Fei Ren Pingli Lu Pengcheng Wei Jinghui Cai Lingguo Xin Juan Zhang Jia Chen Xuechen Wang |
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Institution: | State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China |
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Abstract: | Boron (B) toxicity to plants is responsible for low crop productivity in many regions of the world. Here we report a novel and effective means to alleviate the B toxicity to plants under high B circumstance. Functional characterization of AtTIP5;1, an aquaporin gene, revealed that overexpression of AtTIP5; 1(OxAtTIP5;1) in Arabidopsis significantly increased its tolerance to high B toxicity. Compared to wild-type plants, OxAtTIP5;1 plants exhibited longer hypocotyls, accelerated development, increased silique production under high B treatments. GUS staining and quantitative RT-PCR(qRT-PCR) results demonstrated that the expression of AtTIP5;l was induced by high B concentration treatment. Subcellular localization analysis revealed that the AtTIP5; 1-GFP fusion protein was localized on the tonoplast membrane, which was consistent with the prediction based on bioinformatics. Taken together, our results suggest that AtTIP5;I is involved in B transport pathway possibly via vacuolar compartmentation for B, and that overexpression of AtTIP5;1 in plants may provide an effective way to overcome the problem resulting from high B concentration toxicity. |
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Keywords: | aquaporin boron toxicity tolerance |
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