Close relationship between the state of the oxygen evolving complex and rice cold stress tolerance.

Plant Science : an International Journal of Experimental Plant Biology
Juan Manuel VilasAndrés Alberto Rodríguez

Abstract

The results of the present work suggested a relationship between the growth stability and functional/structural parameters associated to the primary photochemistry and oxygen evolving complex (OEC) in tolerant rice plants under suboptimal low temperatures (SLT) stress. This was concluded from the absence of changes in net photosynthetic rate and in fraction of reaction centers to reduce quinone A, and very small changes in P680 efficiency to trap and donate electrons to quinone A and in fraction of active OEC in tolerant plants under cold stress but not in sensitive plants. The SLT stress also induced OEC activity limitations in both genotypes, but in a greater extent in sensitive plants. However, an assay using an artificial electron donor to replace OEC indicated that the P680+ capacity to accept electrons was not altered in both genotypes under SLT stress from the beginning of the stress treatment, suggesting that the OEC structure stability is related to rice SLT tolerance to sustain the photosynthesis. This hypothesis was also supported by the fact that tolerant plants but not sensitive plants did not alter the gene expression and protein content of PsbP under SLT stress, an OEC subunit with a role in stabilizing of OEC st...Continue Reading

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