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Responses of Arabidopsis leaves to prolonged osmotic stress are mediated by their developmental stage

ABSTRACT: Drought is an important environmental factor affecting plant growth and biomass production. Despite this importance, little is known on the molecular mechanisms regulating plant growth under water limiting conditions. The main goal of this work was to investigate, using a combination of growth and molecular profiling techniques, how Arabidopsis thaliana leaves adapt their growth to prolonged mild osmotic stress. Fully proliferating, expanding and mature leaves were harvested from plants grown on plates without (control) or with 25mM mannitol (osmotic stress) and compared to seedlings at stage 1.03. Total RNAs were extracted using Trizol method from vegetative part of seedlings at stage 1.03 and leaves that are fully proliferating, expanding or mature. All plants were grown in vitro on medium without (0mM) or with mannitol (25mM) in three independent biological experiments. Each sample was pooled from multiple plants and multiple plates in one experiment. RNA samples were submitted to ATH1 array hybridization.

ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana

SUBMITTER: aleksandra skirycz

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-16474 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Developmental stage specificity and the role of mitochondrial metabolism in the response of Arabidopsis leaves to prolonged mild osmotic stress.

Skirycz Aleksandra A De Bodt Stefanie S Obata Toshihiro T De Clercq Inge I Claeys Hannes H De Rycke Riet R Andriankaja Megan M Van Aken Olivier O Van Breusegem Frank F Fernie Alisdair R AR Inzé Dirk D

Plant physiology 20091111 1

When subjected to stress, plants reprogram their growth by largely unknown mechanisms. To provide insights into this process, the growth of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) leaves that develop under mild osmotic stress was studied. Early during leaf development, cell number and size were reduced by stress, but growth was remarkably adaptable, as division and expansion rates were identical to controls within a few days of leaf initiation. To investigate the molecular basis of the observed adapt ...[more]

PMID: 19906889

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Responses of Arabidopsis leaves to prolonged osmotic stress are mediated by their developmental stage

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Developmental stage specificity and the role of mitochondrial metabolism in the response of Arabidopsis leaves to prolonged mild osmotic stress.

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