Arabidopsis Phototropins Participate in the Regulation of Dark-Induced Leaf Senescence

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

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Joanna Grzyb¹  Wojciech Strzałka²  Aleksandra Eckstein²  Piotr Zgłobicki²  AgnieszkaKatarzyna Banaś²  Dariusz Dziga³  Paweł Hermanowicz⁴  Justyna Łabuz⁴ 

[1] Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, Fryderyka Joliot-Curie 14a, 50-383 Wrocław, Poland;

[2] Department of Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Krakow, Poland;

[3] Laboratory of Metabolomics, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Krakow, Poland;

[4] Laboratory of Photobiology, The Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7A, 30-387 Krakow, Poland;

关键词: Arabidopsis thaliana;    darkness;    photosynthesis;    photosynthetic pigments;    phototropin;    senescence;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijms22041836

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Senescence is the final stage of plant development, affecting individual organs or the whole organism, and it can be induced by several environmental factors, including shading or darkness. Although inevitable, senescence is a complex and tightly regulated process, ensuring optimal remobilization of nutrients and cellular components from senescing organs. Photoreceptors such as phytochromes and cryptochromes are known to participate in the process of senescence, but the involvement of phototropins has not been studied to date. We investigated the role of these blue light photoreceptors in the senescence of individually darkened Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. We compared several physiological and molecular senescence markers in darkened leaves of wild-type plants and phototropin mutants (phot1, phot2, and phot1phot2). In general, all the symptoms of senescence (lower photochemical activity of photosystem II, photosynthetic pigment degradation, down-regulation of photosynthetic genes, and up-regulation of senescence-associated genes) were less pronounced in phot1phot2, as compared to the wild type, and some also in one of the single mutants, indicating delayed senescence. This points to different mechanisms of phototropin operation in the regulation of senescence-associated processes, either with both photoreceptors acting redundantly, or only one of them, phot1, playing a dominant role.

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