活性氧
脱落酸
突变体
发芽
细胞生物学
盐度
生物
植物
基因
生物化学
生态学
作者
Xiaofeng Luo,Yujia Dai,Chuan Zheng,Yingzeng Yang,Wei Chen,Qichao Wang,Umashankar Chandrasekaran,Junbo Du,Weiguo Liu,Kai Shu
摘要
Summary Salinity stress enhances reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation by activating the transcription of NADPH oxidase genes such as RbohD , thus mediating plant developmental processes, including seed germination. However, how salinity triggers the expression of ROS‐metabolism‐related genes and represses seed germination has not yet been fully addressed. In this study, we show that Abscisic Acid‐Insensitive 4 (ABI4), a key component in abscisic acid (ABA) signaling, directly combines with RbohD and Vitamin C Defective 2 ( VTC2 ), the key genes involved in ROS production and scavenging, to modulate ROS metabolism during seed germination under salinity stress. Salinity‐induced ABI4 enhances RbohD expression by physically interacting with its promoter, and subsequently promotes ROS accumulation, thus resulting in cell membrane damage and a decrease in seed vigor. Additional genetic evidence indicated that the rbohd mutant largely rescues the salt‐hypersensitive phenotype of ABI4 overexpression seeds. Consistently, the abi4/vtc2 double mutant showed the salt‐sensitive phenotype, similar to the vtc2 mutant, suggesting that both RbohD and VTC2 are epistatic to ABI4 genetically. Altogether, these results suggest that the salt‐induced RbohD transcription and ROS accumulation is dependent on ABI4, and that the ABI4‐RbohD/VTC2 regulatory module integrates both ROS metabolism and cell membrane integrity, ultimately repressing seed germination under salinity stress.
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