<em>Arabidopsis</em> natural accessions display adaptations in inflorescence growth and vascular anatomy to withstand high salinity during reproductive growth
2019
Sellami, Sahar | Le Hir, Rozenn | Thorpe, Michael R. | Aubry, Emilie | Wolff, Nelly | Vilaine, Françoise | Brini, Faiçal | Dinant, Sylvie | Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin (IJPB) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AgroParisTech | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Université Paris Saclay (COmUE) | جامعة صفاقس - Université de Sfax - University of Sfax | Australian National University (ANU) | LabEx Saclay Plant Sciences-SPS (ANR-10-LABX-0040-SPS) | ANR-17-EURE-0007,SPS-GSR,Ecole Universitaire de Recherche de Sciences des Plantes de Paris-Saclay(2017) | ANR-10-LABX-0040,SPS,Saclay Plant Sciences(2010)
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Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Inglés. Plant responses to abiotic stresses entail adaptive processes that integrate both physiological and developmental cues. However, the adaptive traits that are involved in the responses to a high soil salinity during reproductive growth are still poorly studied. To identify new clues, we studied the halophyte, Thellungiella salsuginea, and three Arabidopsis accessions, known as tolerant or salt-sensitive. We focused on the quantitative traits associated with the stem growth, sugar content, and anatomy of the plants subjected to the salt treatment, with and without a three-day acclimation, applied during the reproductive stage. The stem growth of Thellungiella salsuginea was not affected by the salt stress. By contrast, salt affected all of the Arabidopsis accessions, with a natural variation in the effect of the salt on growth, sugar content, and stem anatomy. In response to the high salinity, irregular xylem vessels were observed, independently of the accession’s tolerance to salt treatment, while the diameter of the largest xylem vessels was reduced in the tolerant accessions. The stem height, growth rate, hexoses-to-sucrose ratio, and phloem-to-xylem ratio also varied, in association with both the genotype and its tolerance to salt stress. Our findings indicate that several quantitative traits for salt tolerance are associated with the control of inflorescence growth and the adjustment of the phloem-to-xylem ratio.
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