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Vitamin E Is Superior to Vitamin C in Delaying Seedling Senescence and Improving Resistance in Arabidopsis Deficient in Macro-Elements

Nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) are three essential macro-elements for plant growth and development. Used to improve yield in agricultural production, the excessive use of chemical fertilizers often leads to increased production costs and ecological environmental pollution. Vitamins...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Zhong-Wei, Yang, Xin-Yue, Zheng, Xiao-Jian, Fu, Yu-Fan, Lan, Ting, Tang, Xiao-Yan, Wang, Chang-Quan, Chen, Guang-Deng, Zeng, Jian, Yuan, Shu
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7583987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33050099
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21197429
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author Zhang, Zhong-Wei
Yang, Xin-Yue
Zheng, Xiao-Jian
Fu, Yu-Fan
Lan, Ting
Tang, Xiao-Yan
Wang, Chang-Quan
Chen, Guang-Deng
Zeng, Jian
Yuan, Shu
author_facet Zhang, Zhong-Wei
Yang, Xin-Yue
Zheng, Xiao-Jian
Fu, Yu-Fan
Lan, Ting
Tang, Xiao-Yan
Wang, Chang-Quan
Chen, Guang-Deng
Zeng, Jian
Yuan, Shu
author_sort Zhang, Zhong-Wei
collection PubMed
description Nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) are three essential macro-elements for plant growth and development. Used to improve yield in agricultural production, the excessive use of chemical fertilizers often leads to increased production costs and ecological environmental pollution. Vitamins C and E are antioxidants that play an important role in alleviating abiotic stress. However, there are few studies on alleviating oxidative stress caused by macro-element deficiency. Here, we used Arabidopsis vitamin E synthesis-deficient mutant vte4 and vitamin C synthesis-deficient mutant vtc1 on which exogenous vitamin E and vitamin C, respectively, were applied at the bolting stage. In the deficiency of macro-elements, the Arabidopsis chlorophyll content decreased, malondialdehyde (MDA) content and relative electric conductivity increased, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulated. The mutants vtc1 and vte4 are more severely stressed than the wild-type plants. Adding exogenous vitamin E was found to better alleviate stress than adding vitamin C. Vitamin C barely affected and vitamin E significantly inhibited the synthesis of ethylene (ETH) and jasmonic acid (JA) genes, thereby reducing the accumulation of ETH and JA that alleviated the senescence caused by macro-element deficiency at the later stage of bolting in Arabidopsis. A deficiency of macro-elements also reduced the yield and germination rate of the seeds, which were more apparent in vtc1 and vte4, and adding exogenous vitamin C and vitamin E, respectively, could restore them. This study reported, for the first time, that vitamin E is better than vitamin C in delaying seedling senescence caused by macro-element deficiency in Arabidopsis.
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spelling pubmed-75839872020-10-29 Vitamin E Is Superior to Vitamin C in Delaying Seedling Senescence and Improving Resistance in Arabidopsis Deficient in Macro-Elements Zhang, Zhong-Wei Yang, Xin-Yue Zheng, Xiao-Jian Fu, Yu-Fan Lan, Ting Tang, Xiao-Yan Wang, Chang-Quan Chen, Guang-Deng Zeng, Jian Yuan, Shu Int J Mol Sci Article Nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) are three essential macro-elements for plant growth and development. Used to improve yield in agricultural production, the excessive use of chemical fertilizers often leads to increased production costs and ecological environmental pollution. Vitamins C and E are antioxidants that play an important role in alleviating abiotic stress. However, there are few studies on alleviating oxidative stress caused by macro-element deficiency. Here, we used Arabidopsis vitamin E synthesis-deficient mutant vte4 and vitamin C synthesis-deficient mutant vtc1 on which exogenous vitamin E and vitamin C, respectively, were applied at the bolting stage. In the deficiency of macro-elements, the Arabidopsis chlorophyll content decreased, malondialdehyde (MDA) content and relative electric conductivity increased, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulated. The mutants vtc1 and vte4 are more severely stressed than the wild-type plants. Adding exogenous vitamin E was found to better alleviate stress than adding vitamin C. Vitamin C barely affected and vitamin E significantly inhibited the synthesis of ethylene (ETH) and jasmonic acid (JA) genes, thereby reducing the accumulation of ETH and JA that alleviated the senescence caused by macro-element deficiency at the later stage of bolting in Arabidopsis. A deficiency of macro-elements also reduced the yield and germination rate of the seeds, which were more apparent in vtc1 and vte4, and adding exogenous vitamin C and vitamin E, respectively, could restore them. This study reported, for the first time, that vitamin E is better than vitamin C in delaying seedling senescence caused by macro-element deficiency in Arabidopsis. MDPI 2020-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7583987/ /pubmed/33050099 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21197429 Text en © 2020 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/).
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Zhang, Zhong-Wei
Yang, Xin-Yue
Zheng, Xiao-Jian
Fu, Yu-Fan
Lan, Ting
Tang, Xiao-Yan
Wang, Chang-Quan
Chen, Guang-Deng
Zeng, Jian
Yuan, Shu
Vitamin E Is Superior to Vitamin C in Delaying Seedling Senescence and Improving Resistance in Arabidopsis Deficient in Macro-Elements
title Vitamin E Is Superior to Vitamin C in Delaying Seedling Senescence and Improving Resistance in Arabidopsis Deficient in Macro-Elements
title_full Vitamin E Is Superior to Vitamin C in Delaying Seedling Senescence and Improving Resistance in Arabidopsis Deficient in Macro-Elements
title_fullStr Vitamin E Is Superior to Vitamin C in Delaying Seedling Senescence and Improving Resistance in Arabidopsis Deficient in Macro-Elements
title_full_unstemmed Vitamin E Is Superior to Vitamin C in Delaying Seedling Senescence and Improving Resistance in Arabidopsis Deficient in Macro-Elements
title_short Vitamin E Is Superior to Vitamin C in Delaying Seedling Senescence and Improving Resistance in Arabidopsis Deficient in Macro-Elements
title_sort vitamin e is superior to vitamin c in delaying seedling senescence and improving resistance in arabidopsis deficient in macro-elements
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7583987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33050099
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21197429
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