Desiccation-tolerance specific gene expression in leaf tissue of the resurrection plant Sporobolus stapfianus

Functional Plant Biology : FPB
Tuan N LeAlan D Neale

Abstract

The desiccation tolerant grass Sporobolus stapfianus Gandoger can modulate cellular processes to prevent the imposition of irreversible damage to cellular components by water deficit. The cellular processes conferring this ability are rapidly attenuated by increased water availability. This resurrection plant can quickly restore normal metabolism. Even after loss of more than 95% of its total water content, full rehydration and growth resumption can occur within 24 h. To study the molecular mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in S. stapfianus, a cDNA library constructed from dehydration-stressed leaf tissue, was differentially screened in a manner designed to identify genes with an adaptive role in desiccation tolerance. Further characterisation of four of the genes isolated revealed they are strongly up-regulated by severe dehydration stress and only in desiccation-tolerant tissue, with three of these genes not being expressed at detectable levels in hydrated or dehydrating desiccation-sensitive tissue. The nature of the putative proteins encoded by these genes are suggestive of molecular processes associated with protecting the plant against damage caused by desiccation and include a novel LEA-like protein, and a pore-like pr...Continue Reading

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BETA
AM261428
AM268212
AM268210
AY057933
AY570976
BAB20636
CAA09867
CAB78658
AF180292
AY211985

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BETA
environmental stress
glycosytransferase
glycosylation

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TMpred
JOI
BLAST
COILS
SDSC Biology Workbench
PSORT
PileUp
ABI SeqEd
PELE
TargetP

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