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Effect of cytokinins on oxidative stress in tobacco plants under nitrogen deficiency
► N-deficiency-induced senescence, the rise in ROS trigger oxidative stress. ► Transgenic plants expressing IPT gene coding the rate-limiting step in CKs synthesis. ► WT plants under N-limited, reduced biomass and increased the generation of ROS. ► Transgenic plants under N-limited, did not produce...
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Published in: | Environmental and experimental botany 2011-09, Vol.72 (2), p.167-173 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | ► N-deficiency-induced senescence, the rise in ROS trigger oxidative stress. ► Transgenic plants expressing IPT gene coding the rate-limiting step in CKs synthesis. ► WT plants under N-limited, reduced biomass and increased the generation of ROS. ► Transgenic plants under N-limited, did not produce high ROS and maintained biomass. ► The expression of P
SARK∷IPT in plants could improve nitrogen use efficiency.
Wild type and transgenic tobacco plants expressing isopentenyltransferase, a gene coding the rate-limiting step in cytokinin synthesis, were grown under limited nitrogen (N) conditions. Our results indicated that the WT plants subjected to N deficiency displayed reduced biomass and relative growth rates, increased levels of oxidative damage and reduced foliar concentrations of the different N forms. However, the transgenic plants expressing P
SARK∷IPT, in spite of showing a significant decline in all the N forms in the leaf, avoided the alteration of the oxidative metabolism and maintained biomass and the relative growth rates at control levels, under suboptimal N conditions. These results suggest that the increased cytokinin synthesis in the transgenic plants is an effective mechanism to improve N-use efficiency. |
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ISSN: | 0098-8472 1873-7307 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2011.03.005 |