Article
Plant Sciences
Bing Cui, Ranran Liu, Timothy J. Flowers, Jie Song
Summary: This paper discusses the role of apoplastic barriers (including Casparian bands and suberin lamellae) in ion exclusion during plant salt tolerance, evaluating whether they should be a key target for breeding salt-tolerant crops.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Yuhang Shao, Yukun Cheng, Hongguang Pang, Mingqin Chang, Fang He, Minmin Wang, Destiny J. Davis, Shuxiao Zhang, Oliver Betz, Chuck Fleck, Tingbo Dai, Shahab Madahhosseini, Thomas Wilkop, Judy Jernstedt, Georgia Drakakaki
Summary: The intensive use of groundwater in agriculture under current climate conditions leads to soil salinization, but selecting salt-tolerant rootstocks can help maintain almond productivity. Early selection of tolerant rootstocks reduces time and resource investment, with E1 rootstock showing higher salt exclusion capacity and response to salt stress.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Lukasz Kotula, Peta L. Clode, Kosala Ranathunge, Hans Lambers
Summary: The study found that soil-indifferent Hakea and Banksia species have different strategies in intercepting and allocating calcium, accumulating calcium in roots and specific leaf cells respectively. Conversely, calcifuge Hakea and Banksia species showed differences in cellular calcium concentrations.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Yingying Lu, Wieland Fricke
Summary: This review focuses on the regulation of root water uptake in plants under salt stress. It emphasizes the importance of considering root water uptake in relation to other tolerance mechanisms of plants, such as water relations and gas exchange. The study highlights the lack of attention given to how plants cope with salt stress during the night, which is essential for understanding their growth response over longer periods of time.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Katsuhiro Shiono, Marina Yoshikawa, Tino Kreszies, Sumiyo Yamada, Yuko Hojo, Takakazu Matsuura, Izumi C. Mori, Lukas Schreiber, Toshihito Yoshioka
Summary: To adapt to waterlogged conditions, wetland plants form a barrier to prevent oxygen loss, with ABA playing a key role in inducing this barrier. ABA promotes suberin lamellae formation in the exodermis of rice, resulting in the formation of an ROL barrier.
Review
Plant Sciences
Yi-Qun Gao, Dai-Yin Chao
Summary: This review summarizes recent advances in the study of how vesicle trafficking regulates nutrient homeostasis in plants and discusses new perspectives on future studies, which may inspire researchers to explore new approaches to improve human diet and health.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Rajpal Shetty, Chiruppurathu Sukumaran-Nair Vidya, Nagabovanalli Basavarajappa Prakash, Alexander Lux, Marek Vaculik
Summary: Aluminum toxicity is a serious issue for agricultural plants, and biochar is gaining popularity as a potential solution, although there is a lack of comprehensive information regarding its effects. Several mechanisms within biochar, such as adsorption, absorption, complexation, cation exchange, and electrostatic interaction, are believed to play significant roles in ameliorating Al toxicity. Further research and long-term field studies are needed to better understand the effects of biochar on aluminum toxicity.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Danica Kucerova, Zuzana Vivodova, Karin Kollarova
Summary: This study focused on the impact of low concentrations of arsenic on poplar callus and the effectiveness of silicon in alleviating arsenic stress. Results showed that silicon considerably improved the disrupted nutrient balance caused by arsenic, while both arsenic and arsenic + silicon treatments had a significant impact on photosynthetic pigment concentrations. Principal component analysis revealed high variability between short and long cultivation periods in callus growth, nutrient, and chlorophyll concentrations under arsenic and/or silicon treatments.
PLANT CELL TISSUE AND ORGAN CULTURE
(2021)
Editorial Material
Plant Sciences
Alexander Lux, Jana Kohanova, Philip J. White
Summary: The study investigates the adaptive mechanisms of plants to high calcium soils, revealing that plants can adapt by restricting calcium uptake and translocation, as well as by storing large tissue calcium concentrations in specific cell types.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Thibault Sterckeman, Christian Moyne, Tien Dung Le
Summary: This study evaluated current hypotheses of iron acquisition by higher plants quantitatively. The results showed that all plants growing in aerated soils could suffer from extreme iron deficiencies. The rate of ligand excretion is a key parameter in the process of soil iron hydroxide dissolution by organic ligands for iron acquisition by plants.
Article
Biology
Zuzana Lukacova, Denis Liska, Boris Bokor, Renata Svubova, Alexander Lux
Summary: The study showed that application of silicon and/or cadmium altered the growth and cell wall structure of maize roots, influenced the accumulation patterns of cadmium and silicon, and regulated the expression of Si transporter genes.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xueqian Zhong, Sophie Joimel, Christophe Schwartz, Thibault Sterckeman
Summary: Soil trace metal concentrations in vegetable gardens often exceed background levels, posing a threat to soil, plant functioning, and human health. If current gardening practices continue, concentrations of Cd, Cu, and Zn are predicted to increase after a century, with organic amendments being the major source. Increasing pH may decrease metal solubility and prevent mobility and bioavailability increase.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Thibault Sterckeman, Christian Moyne
Summary: In acid soils, Cd and Zn uptake can be predicted from their free hydrated concentrations, while in calcareous soils with very low concentrations of free hydrated ions, root exudation for Fe acquisition could make other soil Cd species phytoavailable.
Article
Agronomy
Thibault Sterckeman
Article
Agronomy
Alexis Durand, Pierre Leglize, Severine Lopez, Thibault Sterckeman, Emile Benizri
Summary: This study assessed the structure and composition of the rhizosphere and endosphere-associated microbiota in Noccaea caerulescens. The results show that the seed endophytic bacterial communities of Noccaea caerulescens display a strong heritability across one plant generation, despite changes in soil environment.
Article
Plant Sciences
Adriana Misuthova, Ludmila Slovakova, Karin Kollarova, Marek Vaculik
Summary: One of the biggest challenges in plant physiology today is mitigating the negative impact of abiotic stress on plants, particularly from metal and metalloid pollution in groundwater and soil. While arsenic is generally toxic, silicon is considered beneficial for stressed plants. Research on young maize plants exposed to both arsenic and silicon simultaneously showed that silicon could help alleviate arsenic toxicity in roots, though it did not significantly improve overall plant growth.
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Eva Labancova, Kristina Siposova, Danica Kucerova, Agnes Horvathova, Hana Schusterova, Zuzana Vivodova, Renata Vadkertiova, Karin Kollarova
Summary: In this study, the effects of Papiliotrema terrestris yeast on maize plants were tested. It was found that the application of this yeast species promoted plant growth, root formation, and increased nutrient concentrations.
JOURNAL OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATION
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Eva Labancova, Zuzana Vivodova, Kristina Siposova, Karin Kollarova
Summary: The presence of high concentrations of antimony (Sb) in the environment is recognized as an emerging problem worldwide. In this study, poplar callus was exposed to Sb(III) and/or silicon (Si) to determine the impact of Sb/Si interaction in the tissue. The results showed that silicon aided the development of Sb-tolerance over the longer cultivation period and supported the plant tolerance to Sb via the modification of antioxidant enzyme activity.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Christian Moyne, Thibault Sterckeman
Summary: This study evaluated the interferences of major cations (Ca2+, Mg2+) and trace metals (TM, i.e. Cd2+, Cu2+, Mn2+, Ni2+, and Zn2+) in root Fe uptake. The model considered the reactions between root exuded ligand and soil cations. Different ligands with varying affinities and concentrations were used to simulate Fe uptake. The stability constant of Fe complexes (K-FeL) does not affect Fe uptake, but the ligand parameters for Fe-hydroxide dissolution do. TM does not significantly influence Fe uptake when the TM complexes have low stability constants (K-ML), but decreases it when ligands with high K-ML are present. Calcium does not reduce Fe uptake significantly when Ca-complexes have K-CaL < 10(4). The findings suggest that certain ligands like oxalate or MA can be effective in most soils, while TM can disturb Fe uptake mediated by ligands with high K-ML such as MA, but not oxalate. Additionally, plants exuding phytosiderophores should absorb TM complexes to prevent micronutrient deficiencies.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zuzana Vivodova, Diana Hackulicova, Michaela Bacovcinova, Kristina Siposova, Eva Labancova, Karin Kollarova
Summary: Phosphate fertilisers and past mining activity are important sources of cadmium pollution, leading to increased concentrations of Cd in agricultural soils. This study found that galactoglucomannan oligosaccharides (GGMOs) can reduce Cd concentration in maize leaves and enhance their growth, photosynthetic pigment concentration, effective quantum yield of photosystem II, and net photosynthetic rate. GGMOs also decreased stress marker concentrations and increased auxin levels in Cd-stressed maize plants. Therefore, GGMOs have the potential to be biostimulants that support the growth of maize plants under Cd stress.
ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Thibault Sterckeman
Summary: A mechanistic model was developed to study the effect of Cd-citrate on the uptake of Cd by durum wheat. The results showed that the dissociation of Cd-citrate complex has a minor contribution to Cd uptake, and the apoplastic uptake can be practically negligible.