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Arabidopsis Phototropins Participate in the Regulation of Dark-Induced Leaf Senescence.


ABSTRACT: Senescence is the final stage of plant development, affecting individual organs or the whole organism, and it can be induced by several environmental factors, including shading or darkness. Although inevitable, senescence is a complex and tightly regulated process, ensuring optimal remobilization of nutrients and cellular components from senescing organs. Photoreceptors such as phytochromes and cryptochromes are known to participate in the process of senescence, but the involvement of phototropins has not been studied to date. We investigated the role of these blue light photoreceptors in the senescence of individually darkened Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. We compared several physiological and molecular senescence markers in darkened leaves of wild-type plants and phototropin mutants (phot1, phot2, and phot1phot2). In general, all the symptoms of senescence (lower photochemical activity of photosystem II, photosynthetic pigment degradation, down-regulation of photosynthetic genes, and up-regulation of senescence-associated genes) were less pronounced in phot1phot2, as compared to the wild type, and some also in one of the single mutants, indicating delayed senescence. This points to different mechanisms of phototropin operation in the regulation of senescence-associated processes, either with both photoreceptors acting redundantly, or only one of them, phot1, playing a dominant role.

SUBMITTER: Eckstein A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7918785 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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<i>Arabidopsis</i> Phototropins Participate in the Regulation of Dark-Induced Leaf Senescence.

Eckstein Aleksandra A   Grzyb Joanna J   Hermanowicz Paweł P   Zgłobicki Piotr P   Łabuz Justyna J   Strzałka Wojciech W   Dziga Dariusz D   Banaś Agnieszka Katarzyna AK  

International journal of molecular sciences 20210212 4


Senescence is the final stage of plant development, affecting individual organs or the whole organism, and it can be induced by several environmental factors, including shading or darkness. Although inevitable, senescence is a complex and tightly regulated process, ensuring optimal remobilization of nutrients and cellular components from senescing organs. Photoreceptors such as phytochromes and cryptochromes are known to participate in the process of senescence, but the involvement of phototropi  ...[more]

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