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... Premature leaf senescence has a profound influence on crop yield and quality. Here, a stable premature senescence mutant (GSm) was obtained from the common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar Chang 6878 by mutagenesis with ethyl methanesulfonate. The differences between the GSm mutant and its wild-type (WT) were analyzed in terms of yield characteristics, photosynthetic fluorescence indices, and ...
... Jasmonates play important roles in several plant developmental processes and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. This study identified a gene encoding jasmonate resistant 1 (JAR1) protein that catalyzes the production of bioactive jasmonoyl-isoleucine (JA-Ile) from hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L), designated as TaJAR1B. The nucleotide sequence of TaJAR1B and amino acid sequence of the ...
... Nitrogen (N) deficiency is one of the factors limiting crop productivity worldwide. As major forms of N, nitrate (NO₃⁻) and ammonium (NH₄⁺) regulate plant growth as signals. Although there are abundant studies on the response of many plants to N stress, the mechanism by which wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) roots adapt to low N, especially to low-NH₄⁺ stress, has not been fully elucidated. In this st ...
... Mechanisms of the specific systemic response of plant to different adverse factors are poorly understood. We studied the mechanisms acting in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under the action of local burn and gradual heating. Both stimuli induce a variation potential (VP) propagation and a biphasic (fast and long-term phases) photosynthetic response in non-stimulated zones of plant with stimulus-spec ...
... Flag leaves have been considered to be the first key organ contributing to higher yields in triticeae crops. Therefore, dynamical changes in physiological metabolisms in flag leaves are important to regulate senescence and provide reserves to the developing grains. In this study, the dynamic changes in contents of metabolites in flag leaves during grain filling of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) were ...
... The destructive aphid (Sitobion avenae) of wheat, generally accomplished by chemical pesticides, is responsible for the substantial agricultural damages that occur annually. The present experimental study, a protein elicitor, PeBL1, has been examined for the possibility of inducing a defense response to S. avenae in wheat. In comparison to the positive (Water) and negative 70.58 μg ml⁻¹ (50 mM Tri ...
... Soil salinity is a serious problem encountered by agriculture worldwide, which will lead to many harmful effects on plant growth, development, and even crop yield. F-box protein is the core subunit of the Skp1-Cullin-F-box (SCF) complex E3 ligase and plays crucial roles in regulating the growth, development, biotic & abiotic stresses, as well as hormone signaling pathway in plants. In this study, ...
Klára Ptošková; Marek Szecówka; Pavel Jaworek; Danuše Tarkowská; Ivan Petřík; Iva Pavlović; Ondřej Novák; Stephen G. Thomas; Andrew L. Phillips; Peter Hedden
... BACKGROUND: Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) is a major source of nutrition globally, but yields can be seriously compromised by water limitation. Redistribution of growth between shoots and roots is a common response to drought, promoting plant survival, but reducing yield. Gibberellins (GAs) are necessary for shoot and root elongation, but roots maintain growth at lower GA concentrations compared ...
... Wheat (Tritium aestivum L.) productivity is severely hampered by various pathogens and changing climatic conditions. Spot blotch and terminal heat stress are the major constraints of wheat production in the eastern Gangetic plains of India. To identify novel breeding sources and to understand underlying resistance mechanisms, forty-four gamma rays mutagenized wheat genotypes, derived from three di ...
... Auxin affects many aspects of plant growth and development by regulating the expression of auxin-responsive genes. As one of the three major auxin-responsive families the Gretchen Hagen3 (GH3) gene family maintains hormonal homeostasis by conjugating excess indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), salicylic acid (SA), and jasmonic acid (JA) to amino acids during hormone and stress-related signaling. Although s ...
... A well-developed root system is an important characteristic of crop plants, which largely determines their productivity, especially under conditions of water and nutrients deficiency. Being Poaceous, wheat has more than one seminal root. The number of grown seminal roots varies in different wheat accessions and is regulated by environmental factors. Currently, the molecular mechanisms determining ...
... Partial resistance to the biotrophic fungal pathogen Claviceps purpurea, causal agent of ergot, has been found that colocates with mutant alleles of the wheat Reduced height (Rht) loci on chromosomes 4B and 4D. These Rht loci represent the wheat orthologs of the Arabidopsis Della genes. To investigate the role of the Rht mutant DELLA proteins in ergot resistance, we assessed C. purpurea infection ...
... Trials with Moringa oleifera leaf extract (MLE) sprayed on leaves of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) showed different outcomes in grain yield and the components of yield (biomass at anthesis, number of ears, number of tillers, grain weight, 1000 seed weight). An irrigated field trial testing different MLE concentrations resulted in an increase in grain yield of 19% with a 10% concentration but not si ...
... The effect of elicitation with arachidonic and jasmonic acids on the production of phenolic compounds as well as the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of phenolic extracts of wheatgrass was evaluated. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of phenolic compounds carried out with the UPLC-MS technique indicated that luteolin and apigenin derivatives were the dominant flavonoids, while ...
... The SQUAMOSA promoter-binding protein-like (SPL) proteins constitute a family of plant-specific transcription factors that play a vital role in plant development. Wheat (Triticum aestivum, AABBDD) is universally well-known as a cash crop; however, the SPLs of this important crop have not been systematically investigated as yet. In this study, we conducted a genome-wide survey in wheat and found 56 ...
... Changes in specialized metabolites were analyzed in wheat leaves inoculated with Bipolaris sorokiniana, the causal agent of spot blotch of Poaceae species. HPLC analysis detected the accumulation of six compounds in B. sorokiniana-infected leaves. Of these, we purified two compounds by silica gel and ODS column chromatography and preparative HPLC, and identified them as cinnamic acid amides, N-cin ...
... Xiaoyan6 (XY6) is a wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivar possessing nonrace-specific high-temperature seedling plant (HTSP) resistance against stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. Previously, we identified one particular gene, TaRPS2, for its involvement in the HTSP resistance. To elucidate the role of TaRPS2 in the HTSP resistance, we cloned the full length of TaRPS2 from XY6 ...
... Hormone-dependent responses in host plants induced by herbivore infestation have species-specific effects. This study focused on determining the relative expression profiles of the genes associated with hormone-dependent pathways in two near-isogenic wheat lines when attacked by cereal aphids. Infestation with Rhopalosiphum padi Linnaeus (Hemiptera: Aphididae) and/or Sitobion avenae Fabricius (Hem ...
... Resistance to Fusarium graminearum, a fungal pathogen of cereals, has been associated with increased defense-associated hormonal responses in wheat. A comparison of susceptible (Roblin) and moderately resistant wheat genotypes (Wuhan 1, Nyubai) revealed transcriptional regulation of 1021 genes during infection. Only 4% of these genes were uniquely differentially expressed in the susceptible genoty ...
... Most types of stress influence crop plants at intervals. Unlike other stresses, salt and alkali stresses influence crop plants for their entire life cycle. However, little is known about physiological and molecular response of crop plants to long-term salinity or long-term alkali stress (LAS) condition. In the present study, we subjected hexaploid wheat seeds to LAS treatment (NaHCO₃/Na₂CO₃, 9:1; ...
... Soil acidification is one of major problems limiting crop growth and especially becoming increasingly serious in China owing to excessive use of nitrogen fertilizer. Only the STOP1 of Arabidopsis was identified clearly sensitive to proton rhizotoxicity and the molecular mechanism for proton toxicity tolerance of plants is still poorly understood. The main objective of this study was to investigate ...
... Validamycin A (VMA) is an aminoglycoside antibiotic used to control rice sheath blight. Although it has been reported that VMA can induce the plant defense responses, the mechanism remains poorly understood. Here, we found that reactive oxygen species (ROS) bursts and callose deposition in Arabidopsis thaliana, rice (Oryza sativa L.), and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) were induced by VMA and were m ...
... BACKGROUND: Infestation of the phytotoxic aphid Schizaphis graminum can rapidly induce leaf chlorosis in susceptible plants, but this effect is not observed with the nonphytotoxic aphid Sitobion avenae. However, few studies have attempted to identify the different defence responses induced in wheat by S. graminum and S. avenae feeding and the mechanisms underlying the activation of chlorosis by S. ...
... We investigated the effect of presowing treatment of seeds with salicylic (SA) and jasmonic (JA) acids on the growth of wheat Triticum aestivum L. seedlings, generation of hydrogen peroxide (Н₂О₂) therein, and transcriptional activity of the genes encoding defense proteins—oxalate oxidase (OxO), peroxidase (PO), and proteinase inhibitor (PI)—upon their inoculation with stinking smut pathogen Tille ...
... Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) can infect wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), leading to yield loss. Among four BYDV strains (GAV, GPV, PAV, and RMV) identified in China, BYDV-GAV is the prevailing isolate. YW642, a wheat–Thinopyrum intermedium translocation line, is resistant to BYDV isolates at both seedling and adult stages. Zhong 8601 is the wheat recurrent parent of YW642 and is susceptible to BY ...
Jyothilakshmi Vadassery; Daniel J. Ballhorn; Steven R. Fleming; Christian Mazars; Shree P. Pandey; Axel Schmidt; Meredith C. Schuman; Kai-Wun Yeh; Ayufu Yilamujiang; Axel Mithöfer
... Jasmonates are important phytohormones involved in both plant developmental processes as well as defense reactions. Many JA-mediated plant defense responses have been studied in model plants using mutants of the jasmonate signaling pathway. However, in plant species where JA-signaling mutants are not accessible, the availability of a tool targeting JA signaling is crucial to investigate jasmonate- ...
... Ozone has been proposed as a convenient elicitor against pathogens since it is known to generate different reactive oxygen species (ROS) and induce nonspecific defence by altering gene expression. The mode of action and its interaction with other defence pathways are yet to be elucidated. Besides its negative effects on plants, ozone can be used for triggering defence against environmental stresse ...
... Drought stress due to its stage of occurrence is one of the factors affecting wheat yield, and jasmonates are plant growth regulators that play an important role in increasing the resistance of plants to environmental stresses such as drought stress. Therefore, in order to study the effect of spraying different concentrations of methyl jasmonate on water productivity, yield and its components of t ...
... Xiaoyan 60 (XY60) is a new wheat variety bred in the laboratory of Zhensheng Li. After salt treatment, seedlings of XY60 maintain green leaves and produce longer roots than the high yielding cultivar Zhongmai 175 (ZM175). To explain these different phenotypes we carried out an RNA-Seq analysis using 12 samples from three tissues of both varieties subjected to salt and control treatments. By compar ...
... Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is a devastating disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum) worldwide. Wheat high‐temperature seedling plant (HTSP) resistance to Pst is non‐race‐specific and durable. WRKY transcription factors have been proven to play important roles in plant defence responses to attacks by several pathogens. However, there is no direct evidence as to w ...
... BACKGROUND: Drought stress is one of the major causes of crop loss. WRKY transcription factors, as one of the largest transcription factor families, play important roles in regulation of many plant processes, including drought stress response. However, far less information is available on drought-responsive WRKY genes in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), one of the three staple food crops. RESULTS: Fo ...
... WRKY, a plant-specific transcription factor family, plays vital roles in pathogen defense, abiotic stress, and phytohormone signalling. Little is known about the roles and function of WRKY transcription factors in response to rust diseases in wheat. In the present study, three TaWRKY genes encoding complete protein sequences were cloned. They belonged to class II and III WRKY based on the number o ...
... Fusarium culmorum is a soilborne fungal pathogen, agent of crown and root rot disease (FCRR), responsible of major economic losses in wheat plants. This host—pathogen interaction, following methyl jasmonate (MeJA) application at the beginning of the necrotrophic stage of infection, has not been previously studied at molecular level. In this study, using real-time quantitative PCR, the emerging rol ...
... Actin filament assembly in plants is a dynamic process, requiring the activity of more than 75 actin‐binding proteins. Central to the regulation of filament assembly and stability is the activity of a conserved family of actin‐depolymerizing factors (ADFs), whose primarily function is to regulate the severing and depolymerization of actin filaments. In recent years, the activity of ADF proteins ha ...
... Spot blotch disease, caused by Bipolaris sorokiniana, is an important threat to wheat, causing an annual loss of ~17%. Under epidemic conditions, these losses may be 100%, yet the molecular responses of wheat to spot blotch remain almost uncharacterized. Moreover, defense‐related phytohormone signaling genes have been poorly characterized in wheat. Here, we have identified 18 central components of ...
... Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MPK) cascades consist of a set of kinase types (MPKKKs, MPKKs, MPKs) to establish conserved signal-transducing modules mediating plant growth, development as well as responses to internal and external cues. In this study, the expression patterns of six MPKKK, two MPKK, and 11 MPK genes in wheat in responses to external treatments of phytohormones, including naphth ...
... Quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) is the most widely used and reliable method for gene expression analysis. The accuracy of qRT-PCR relies on normalization of gene expression based on reference genes, however recent studies have shown that none of the reference genes can be used universally across different experimental conditions. In the present study, four most commonly used reference genes, ...
... The response of Triticum aestivum L. to infection by Septoria nodorum Berk, a pathogen causing speckled leaf blotch, was studied. The effect of salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA) signal molecules, as well as chitooligosaccharides (COSs) with different acetylation degrees (ADs), on the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide (Н₂О₂) in wheat leaves and the pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins of oxa ...
... The effect of phytohormones on the defense response of wheat against Fusarium graminearum infection was investigated. Infection of heads with F. graminearum induced accumulation of salicylic acid (SA), jasmonic acid (JA), abscisic acid (ABA), and indole acetic acid (IAA). Exogenous phytohormone treatments showed crosstalk between them and a complex effect on expression of the genes ATB2, ExpB6, LE ...
... The 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid reductases (OPRs) are involved in the various processes of growth and development in plants, and classified into the OPRⅠ and OPRⅡ subgroups. In higher plants, only OPRⅡ subgroup genes take part in the biosynthesis of endogenous jasmonic acid. In this study, we isolated a novel OPRⅡ subgroup gene named TaOPR2 (GeneBank accession: KM216389) from the thermo-sensitive gen ...
... We examined the role of pathogenesis-related protein TaBWPR-1.2 in the context of molecular and physiological responses of wheat (Triticum aestivum) seminal roots under waterlogging stress. Two cDNAs corresponding to the TaBWPR-1.2 gene, TaBWPR-1.2#2 and TaBWPR-1.2#13 were cloned from seminal roots. These cDNAs were predicted to encode proteins of 173 and 172 amino acids, respectively. In a time-c ...
... The effects of treatment with jasmonic acid (JA) of wheat (Triticum aestivum L, cv. Elegia) coleoptiles on the generation of superoxide anion-radical (O ₂ ·⁻ ), the activity of extracellular peroxidase, enzymatic and non-enzymatic components of the antioxidant system were studied. During the first hour after the start of coleoptile treatment with 1 μM JA, the generation of O ₂ ·⁻ was enhanced and ...
... We investigated promotion effects of exogenous sodium nitroprusside (SNP) on wheat seedling (Triticum aestivum L.) lateral root (LR) and root hair development, and the relationship between endogenous jasmonate (JA) production and activity changes of lipoxygenase (LOX) isoenzymes under osmotic stress generated by 15 % PEG-6000. Our results showed that 25 or 50 mu M SNP could significantly increase ...
... Proteomic studies were performed to identify the protein species involved in copper (Cu) stress responses in common wheat. Two-week-old wheat seedlings were exposed to 100 μM CuSO₄ treatment for 3 days. Growth of shoots and roots was markedly inhibited and lipid peroxidation was greatly increased. Cu was readily absorbed by wheat seedlings, with greater Cu contents in roots than in leaves. Using 2 ...
... Plant bHLH transcription factors have important roles in regulation of developmental processes and responses to environmental stresses, but little is known about their functions in wheat in response to infection by pathogens. A new bHLH-type gene TabHLH060 was cloned from bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) and characterized. TabHLH060 was strongly expressed in wheat leaves and involved in response to ...
Klára Kosová; Ilja Tom Prášil; Pavel Vítámvás; Petre Dobrev; Václav Motyka; Kristýna Floková; Ondřej Novák; Veronika Turečková; Jakub Rolčik; Bedřich Pešek; Alena Trávničková; Alena Gaudinová; Gabor Galiba; Tibor Janda; Eva Vlasáková; Pavla Prášilová; Radomíra Vanková
... Hormonal changes accompanying the cold stress (4°C) response that are related to the level of frost tolerance (FT; measured as LT50) and the content of the most abundant dehydrin, WCS120, were compared in the leaves and crowns of the winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cv. Samanta and the spring wheat cv. Sandra. The characteristic feature of the alarm phase (1 day) response was a rapid elevation ...
... Abscisic acid (ABA) plays a central role in seed dormancy and transcriptional regulation of genes coding for ABA biosynthetic and degradation enzymes is responsible for control of ABA content. However, little is known about signalling both before and after ABA regulation, in particular, how environmental signals are perceived and transduced. We are interested in these processes in cereal grains, p ...
... Jasmonic acid (JA) signalling plays an important role in plant resistance to pathogens. Previously, JA has been found to play a role in induced disease resistance to necrotrophic pathogens in various plant species, but current researches showed that JA also enhanced resistance to biotrophic pathogens. However, its role in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritic ...
... The Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Kurdjumov), is an invasive insect pest that causes serious yield losses in bread wheat, Triticum aestivum L., durum wheat, T. turgidum L and barley, Hordeum vulgare L. Successful management of D. noxia has been achieved through resistant varieties via plant antixenosis (aphid non-preference), antibiosis (reduced aphid growth or fecundity), tolerance (plant ...
... In the present study, expression patterns of two different wheat cystatins (WCs) were studied under the influence of jasmonate signaling in triggering resistance against Karnal bunt (KB). Cystatins are cysteine proteinase inhibitors (CPI) constituting a multigene family which regulate the activity of endo- and/or exogenous cysteine proteinases (CP). Two wheat varieties HD-29 (resistant, R) and WH- ...