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2015 ; 11
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): e1005705
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Trehalose Accumulation Triggers Autophagy during Plant Desiccation
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Williams B
; Njaci I
; Moghaddam L
; Long H
; Dickman MB
; Zhang X
; Mundree S
PLoS Genet
2015[Dec]; 11
(12
): e1005705
PMID26633550
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Global climate change, increasingly erratic weather and a burgeoning global
population are significant threats to the sustainability of future crop
production. There is an urgent need for the development of robust measures that
enable crops to withstand the uncertainty of climate change whilst still
producing maximum yields. Resurrection plants possess the unique ability to
withstand desiccation for prolonged periods, can be restored upon watering and
represent great potential for the development of stress tolerant crops. Here, we
describe the remarkable stress characteristics of Tripogon loliiformis, an
uncharacterised resurrection grass and close relative of the economically
important cereals, rice, sorghum, and maize. We show that T. loliiformis survives
extreme environmental stress by implementing autophagy to prevent Programmed Cell
Death. Notably, we identified a novel role for trehalose in the regulation of
autophagy in T.loliiformis. Transcriptome, Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry,
immunoblotting and confocal microscopy analyses directly linked the accumulation
of trehalose with the onset of autophagy in dehydrating and desiccated T.
loliiformis shoots. These results were supported in vitro with the observation of
autophagosomes in trehalose treated T. loliiformis leaves; autophagosomes were
not detected in untreated samples. Presumably, once induced, autophagy promotes
desiccation tolerance in T.loliiformis, by removal of cellular toxins to suppress
programmed cell death and the recycling of nutrients to delay the onset of
senescence. These findings illustrate how resurrection plants manipulate sugar
metabolism to promote desiccation tolerance and may provide candidate genes that
are potentially useful for the development of stress tolerant crops.
|Autophagy/*genetics
[MESH]
|Climate Change
[MESH]
|Craterostigma/genetics/*growth & development
[MESH]