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Nitrogen remobilisation facilitates adventitious root formation on reversible dark-induced carbohydrate depletion in Petunia hybrida

BACKGROUND: Adventitious root (AR) formation in axillary shoot tip cuttings is a crucial physiological process for ornamental propagation that is utilised in global production chains for young plants. In this process, the nitrogen and carbohydrate metabolisms of a cutting are regulated by its total...

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Autores principales: Zerche, Siegfried, Haensch, Klaus-Thomas, Druege, Uwe, Hajirezaei, Mohammad-Reza
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27724871
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-016-0901-6
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author Zerche, Siegfried
Haensch, Klaus-Thomas
Druege, Uwe
Hajirezaei, Mohammad-Reza
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Haensch, Klaus-Thomas
Druege, Uwe
Hajirezaei, Mohammad-Reza
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description BACKGROUND: Adventitious root (AR) formation in axillary shoot tip cuttings is a crucial physiological process for ornamental propagation that is utilised in global production chains for young plants. In this process, the nitrogen and carbohydrate metabolisms of a cutting are regulated by its total nitrogen content (N(t)), dark exposure during transport and irradiance levels at distinct production sites and phases through a specific plasticity to readjust metabolite pools. Here, we examined how elevated N(t) contents with a combined dark exposure of cuttings influence their internal N-pools including free amino acids and considered early anatomic events of AR formation as well as further root development in Petunia hybrida cuttings. RESULTS: Enhanced N(t) contents of unrooted cuttings resulted in elevated total free amino acid levels and in particular glutamate (glu) and glutamine (gln) in leaf and basal stem. N-allocation to mobile N-pools increased whereas the allocation to insoluble protein-N declined. A dark exposure of cuttings conserved initial N(t) and nitrate-N, while it reduced insoluble protein-N and increased soluble protein, amino- and amide-N. The increase of amino acids mainly comprised asparagine (asn), aspartate (asp) and arginine (arg) in the leaves, with distinct tissue specific responses to an elevated N supply. Dark exposure induced an early transient rise of asp followed by a temporary increase of glu. A strong positive N effect of high N(t) contents of cuttings on AR formation after 384 h was observed. Root meristematic cells developed at 72 h with a negligible difference for two N(t) levels. After 168 h, an enhanced N(t) accelerated AR formation and gave rise to first obvious fully developed roots while only meristems were formed with a low N(t). However, dark exposure for 168 h promoted AR formation particularly in cuttings with a low N(t) to such an extent so that the benefit of the enhanced N(t) was almost compensated. Combined dark exposure and low N(t) of cuttings strongly reduced shoot growth during AR formation. CONCLUSIONS: The results indicate that both enhanced N(t) content and dark exposure of cuttings reinforced N signals and mobile N resources in the stem base facilitated by senescence-related proteolysis in leaves. Based on our results, a model of N mobilisation concomitant with carbohydrate depletion and its significance for AR formation is postulated. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12870-016-0901-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-50564782016-10-20 Nitrogen remobilisation facilitates adventitious root formation on reversible dark-induced carbohydrate depletion in Petunia hybrida Zerche, Siegfried Haensch, Klaus-Thomas Druege, Uwe Hajirezaei, Mohammad-Reza BMC Plant Biol Research Article BACKGROUND: Adventitious root (AR) formation in axillary shoot tip cuttings is a crucial physiological process for ornamental propagation that is utilised in global production chains for young plants. In this process, the nitrogen and carbohydrate metabolisms of a cutting are regulated by its total nitrogen content (N(t)), dark exposure during transport and irradiance levels at distinct production sites and phases through a specific plasticity to readjust metabolite pools. Here, we examined how elevated N(t) contents with a combined dark exposure of cuttings influence their internal N-pools including free amino acids and considered early anatomic events of AR formation as well as further root development in Petunia hybrida cuttings. RESULTS: Enhanced N(t) contents of unrooted cuttings resulted in elevated total free amino acid levels and in particular glutamate (glu) and glutamine (gln) in leaf and basal stem. N-allocation to mobile N-pools increased whereas the allocation to insoluble protein-N declined. A dark exposure of cuttings conserved initial N(t) and nitrate-N, while it reduced insoluble protein-N and increased soluble protein, amino- and amide-N. The increase of amino acids mainly comprised asparagine (asn), aspartate (asp) and arginine (arg) in the leaves, with distinct tissue specific responses to an elevated N supply. Dark exposure induced an early transient rise of asp followed by a temporary increase of glu. A strong positive N effect of high N(t) contents of cuttings on AR formation after 384 h was observed. Root meristematic cells developed at 72 h with a negligible difference for two N(t) levels. After 168 h, an enhanced N(t) accelerated AR formation and gave rise to first obvious fully developed roots while only meristems were formed with a low N(t). However, dark exposure for 168 h promoted AR formation particularly in cuttings with a low N(t) to such an extent so that the benefit of the enhanced N(t) was almost compensated. Combined dark exposure and low N(t) of cuttings strongly reduced shoot growth during AR formation. CONCLUSIONS: The results indicate that both enhanced N(t) content and dark exposure of cuttings reinforced N signals and mobile N resources in the stem base facilitated by senescence-related proteolysis in leaves. Based on our results, a model of N mobilisation concomitant with carbohydrate depletion and its significance for AR formation is postulated. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12870-016-0901-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5056478/ /pubmed/27724871 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-016-0901-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Zerche, Siegfried
Haensch, Klaus-Thomas
Druege, Uwe
Hajirezaei, Mohammad-Reza
Nitrogen remobilisation facilitates adventitious root formation on reversible dark-induced carbohydrate depletion in Petunia hybrida
title Nitrogen remobilisation facilitates adventitious root formation on reversible dark-induced carbohydrate depletion in Petunia hybrida
title_full Nitrogen remobilisation facilitates adventitious root formation on reversible dark-induced carbohydrate depletion in Petunia hybrida
title_fullStr Nitrogen remobilisation facilitates adventitious root formation on reversible dark-induced carbohydrate depletion in Petunia hybrida
title_full_unstemmed Nitrogen remobilisation facilitates adventitious root formation on reversible dark-induced carbohydrate depletion in Petunia hybrida
title_short Nitrogen remobilisation facilitates adventitious root formation on reversible dark-induced carbohydrate depletion in Petunia hybrida
title_sort nitrogen remobilisation facilitates adventitious root formation on reversible dark-induced carbohydrate depletion in petunia hybrida
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27724871
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-016-0901-6
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