Journal
PLANT CELL REPORTS
Volume 38, Issue 10, Pages 1217-1233Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-019-02438-6
Keywords
Fluoride; Injuries; Osmolytes; Antioxidants; Abscisic acid; Defence mechanism; Rice
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- Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India [EMR/2016/004799]
- Department of Higher Education, Science and Technology and Biotechnology, Government of West Bengal [264(Sanc.)/ST/P/ST/1G-80/2017]
- University Grants Commission, Government of India
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Key message Excessive bioaccumulation of fluoride in IR-64 caused low abscisic acid level, inhibition of polyamine biosynthesis and ascorbate-glutathione cycle but not in Gobindobhog which had higher antioxidant activity. The current study presents regulation of diverse metabolic and molecular defence pathways during fluoride stress in non-aromatic rice variety, IR-64 and aromatic rice variety, Gobindobhog (GB). Increasing concentration of fluoride affected fresh weight, dry weight, vigour index and relative water content to a lesser extent in GB compared to IR-64. GB exhibited lower methylglyoxal accumulation and lipoxygenase activity compared to IR-64 during stress. The level of osmolytes (proline, amino acids and glycine-betaine) increased in both the stressed varieties. The biosynthesis of higher polyamines was stimulated in stressed GB. IR-64 accumulated higher amount of putrescine due to degradation of higher polyamines as supported by gene expression analysis. Unlike IR-64, GB efficiently maintained the ascorbate-glutathione cycle due to much lower fluoride bioaccumulation, compared to IR-64. GB adapted to fluoride stress by strongly inducing guaiacol peroxidase, phenylalanine ammonia lyase and a novel isozyme of superoxide dismutase. While GB accumulated higher abscisic acid (ABA) level during stress, IR-64 exhibited slow ABA degradation which enabled induction of associated osmotic stress-responsive genes. Unlike GB, ABA-independent DREB2A was downregulated in stressed IR-64. The research illustrates varietal differences in the defence machinery of the susceptible variety, IR-64, and the well adapted cultivar, GB, on prolonged exposure to increasing concentrations of fluoride.
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