Improved stress tolerance and productivity in transgenic rice plants constitutively expressing the Oryza sativa glutathione synthetase OsGS under paddy field conditions

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of plant physiology. - 1979. - 215(2017) vom: 15. Aug., Seite 39-47
1. Verfasser: Park, Seong-Im (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Kim, Young-Saeng, Kim, Jin-Ju, Mok, Ji-Eun, Kim, Yul-Ho, Park, Hyang-Mi, Kim, Il-Sup, Yoon, Ho-Sung
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2017
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of plant physiology
Schlagworte:Journal Article Glutathione Glutathione synthetase Grain yield Stress tolerance Transgenic rice plant Plant Proteins Glutathione Synthase EC 6.3.2.3
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Zusammenfassung:Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
Reactive oxygen species, which increase under various environmental stresses, have deleterious effects on plants. An important antioxidant, glutathione, is used to detoxify reactive oxygen species in plant cells and is mainly produced by two enzymes: gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase (γ-ECS) and glutathione synthetase (GS). To evaluate the functional roles of the glutathione synthetase gene (OsGS) in rice, we generated four independent transgenic rice plants (TG1-TG4) that overexpressed OsGS under the control of the constitutively expressed OsCc1 promoter. When grown under natural paddy field conditions, the TG rice plants exhibited greater growth development, higher chlorophyll content, and higher GSH/GSSH ratios than control wild-type (WT) rice plants. Subsequently, the TG rice plants enhanced redox homeostasis by preventing hydroperoxide-mediated membrane damage, which improved their adaptation to environmental stresses. As a result, TG rice plants improved rice grain yield and total biomass following increases in panicle number and number of spikelets per panicle, despite differences in climate during the cultivation periods of 2014 and 2015. Overall, our results indicate that OsGS overexpression improved redox homeostasis by enhancing the glutathione pool, which resulted in greater tolerance to environmental stresses in the paddy fields
Beschreibung:Date Completed 02.01.2018
Date Revised 30.09.2020
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1618-1328
DOI:10.1016/j.jplph.2017.05.006