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Arabidopsis Natural Accessions Display Adaptations in Inflorescence Growth and Vascular Anatomy to Withstand High Salinity during Reproductive Growth
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 h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6473358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30862126 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants8030061 |
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author | Sellami, Sahar Le Hir, Rozenn Thorpe, Michael R. Aubry, Emilie Wolff, Nelly Vilaine, Françoise Brini, Faiçal Dinant, Sylvie |
author_facet | Sellami, Sahar Le Hir, Rozenn Thorpe, Michael R. Aubry, Emilie Wolff, Nelly Vilaine, Françoise Brini, Faiçal Dinant, Sylvie |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-64733582019-04-29 Arabidopsis Natural Accessions Display Adaptations in Inflorescence Growth and Vascular Anatomy to Withstand High Salinity during Reproductive Growth Sellami, Sahar Le Hir, Rozenn Thorpe, Michael R. Aubry, Emilie Wolff, Nelly Vilaine, Françoise Brini, Faiçal Dinant, Sylvie Plants (Basel) Article 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. MDPI 2019-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6473358/ /pubmed/30862126 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants8030061 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Sellami, Sahar Le Hir, Rozenn Thorpe, Michael R. Aubry, Emilie Wolff, Nelly Vilaine, Françoise Brini, Faiçal Dinant, Sylvie Arabidopsis Natural Accessions Display Adaptations in Inflorescence Growth and Vascular Anatomy to Withstand High Salinity during Reproductive Growth |
title | Arabidopsis Natural Accessions Display Adaptations in Inflorescence Growth and Vascular Anatomy to Withstand High Salinity during Reproductive Growth |
title_full | Arabidopsis Natural Accessions Display Adaptations in Inflorescence Growth and Vascular Anatomy to Withstand High Salinity during Reproductive Growth |
title_fullStr | Arabidopsis Natural Accessions Display Adaptations in Inflorescence Growth and Vascular Anatomy to Withstand High Salinity during Reproductive Growth |
title_full_unstemmed | Arabidopsis Natural Accessions Display Adaptations in Inflorescence Growth and Vascular Anatomy to Withstand High Salinity during Reproductive Growth |
title_short | Arabidopsis Natural Accessions Display Adaptations in Inflorescence Growth and Vascular Anatomy to Withstand High Salinity during Reproductive Growth |
title_sort | arabidopsis natural accessions display adaptations in inflorescence growth and vascular anatomy to withstand high salinity during reproductive growth |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6473358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30862126 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants8030061 |
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