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Abscisic Acid May Play a Critical Role in the Moderating Effect of Epichloë Endophyte on Achnatherum inebrians under Drought Stress
Water scarcity is a major constraint that adversely affects plant development and growth. Abscisic acid (ABA) is a plant stress hormone that is rapidly synthesized and can induce stomatal closure to conserve water, thereby alleviating the drought stress of plants. The Epichloë endophyte enhances the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9698257/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36354907 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof8111140 |
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author | Cui, Xuelian He, Wen Christensen, Michael John. Yue, Jinfeng Zeng, Fanbin Zhang, Xingxu Nan, Zhibiao Xia, Chao |
author_facet | Cui, Xuelian He, Wen Christensen, Michael John. Yue, Jinfeng Zeng, Fanbin Zhang, Xingxu Nan, Zhibiao Xia, Chao |
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description | Water scarcity is a major constraint that adversely affects plant development and growth. Abscisic acid (ABA) is a plant stress hormone that is rapidly synthesized and can induce stomatal closure to conserve water, thereby alleviating the drought stress of plants. The Epichloë endophyte enhances the drought tolerance of Achnatherum inebrians (drunken horse grass, DHG). To better understand how the Epichloë endophyte enhances drought tolerance, DHG plants without (EF) and with (EI), an Epichloë endophyte, were grown under 20% and 60% soil water conditions (SWC), and the leaves of the three treatments of EF and EI plants were sprayed with ABA solution (1 mg/L); fluridone (FLU), the ABA biosynthesis inhibitor solution (1 mg/L); and distilled water, respectively. Four-weeks later, the results indicated that the exogenous ABA application promoted plant growth, stomatal conductance, and photosynthetic rate, while the opposite effect occurred with plants sprayed with FLU. The differences between EI and EF plants in tiller number, height, chlorophyll content, stomata conductance, and photosynthetic rate were highest when sprayed with ABA. Thus, it is concluded that ABA might be involved in the moderating effect of Epichloë endophytes on DHG plants exposed to drought by maintaining growth and improving photosynthetic efficiency. |
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spelling | pubmed-96982572022-11-26 Abscisic Acid May Play a Critical Role in the Moderating Effect of Epichloë Endophyte on Achnatherum inebrians under Drought Stress Cui, Xuelian He, Wen Christensen, Michael John. Yue, Jinfeng Zeng, Fanbin Zhang, Xingxu Nan, Zhibiao Xia, Chao J Fungi (Basel) Article Water scarcity is a major constraint that adversely affects plant development and growth. Abscisic acid (ABA) is a plant stress hormone that is rapidly synthesized and can induce stomatal closure to conserve water, thereby alleviating the drought stress of plants. The Epichloë endophyte enhances the drought tolerance of Achnatherum inebrians (drunken horse grass, DHG). To better understand how the Epichloë endophyte enhances drought tolerance, DHG plants without (EF) and with (EI), an Epichloë endophyte, were grown under 20% and 60% soil water conditions (SWC), and the leaves of the three treatments of EF and EI plants were sprayed with ABA solution (1 mg/L); fluridone (FLU), the ABA biosynthesis inhibitor solution (1 mg/L); and distilled water, respectively. Four-weeks later, the results indicated that the exogenous ABA application promoted plant growth, stomatal conductance, and photosynthetic rate, while the opposite effect occurred with plants sprayed with FLU. The differences between EI and EF plants in tiller number, height, chlorophyll content, stomata conductance, and photosynthetic rate were highest when sprayed with ABA. Thus, it is concluded that ABA might be involved in the moderating effect of Epichloë endophytes on DHG plants exposed to drought by maintaining growth and improving photosynthetic efficiency. MDPI 2022-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9698257/ /pubmed/36354907 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof8111140 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Cui, Xuelian He, Wen Christensen, Michael John. Yue, Jinfeng Zeng, Fanbin Zhang, Xingxu Nan, Zhibiao Xia, Chao Abscisic Acid May Play a Critical Role in the Moderating Effect of Epichloë Endophyte on Achnatherum inebrians under Drought Stress |
title | Abscisic Acid May Play a Critical Role in the Moderating Effect of Epichloë Endophyte on Achnatherum inebrians under Drought Stress |
title_full | Abscisic Acid May Play a Critical Role in the Moderating Effect of Epichloë Endophyte on Achnatherum inebrians under Drought Stress |
title_fullStr | Abscisic Acid May Play a Critical Role in the Moderating Effect of Epichloë Endophyte on Achnatherum inebrians under Drought Stress |
title_full_unstemmed | Abscisic Acid May Play a Critical Role in the Moderating Effect of Epichloë Endophyte on Achnatherum inebrians under Drought Stress |
title_short | Abscisic Acid May Play a Critical Role in the Moderating Effect of Epichloë Endophyte on Achnatherum inebrians under Drought Stress |
title_sort | abscisic acid may play a critical role in the moderating effect of epichloë endophyte on achnatherum inebrians under drought stress |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9698257/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36354907 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof8111140 |
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