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A central role of abscisic acid in drought stress protection of Agrobacterium-induced tumors on Arabidopsis.

Abstract
Crown gall tumors induced by Agrobacterium tumefaciens represent a sink that has to be provided with nutrients and water by the host plant. The lack of an intact epidermis or cuticle results in uncontrolled loss of water. However, neither the tumor nor the host plant displays wilting. This phenomenon points to drought adaptation in both tumors and the crown gall host plant. To understand the underlying molecular mechanisms of protection against desiccation the gene expression pattern of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) tumors was integrated with the profile of stress metabolites: Arabidopsis tumors accumulated high amounts of abscisic acid (ABA), the ethylene precursor aminocyclopropyl carboxylic acid, osmoprotectants, and form a suberized periderm-like protective layer. Suberization of the outer tumor cell layers most likely is mediated by ABA since external application of ABA induced suberization of Arabidopsis roots. However, the expression level of the classical marker genes, known to respond to drought stress and/or ABA, was lower in tumors. Instead another set of drought and/or ABA-inducible genes was more highly transcribed. Elevated transcription of several ABA-dependent aquaporin genes might indicate that ABA controls the water balance of the tumor. The retarded tumor growth on abi and aba mutant plants underlined the importance of a tumor-specific ABA signaling pathway. Taken together, we propose that ABA is an important signal for protection of tumors against desiccation and thus supports tumor development.
AuthorsMarina Efetova, Jürgen Zeier, Markus Riederer, Chil-Woo Lee, Nadja Stingl, Martin Mueller, Wolfram Hartung, Rainer Hedrich, Rosalia Deeken
JournalPlant physiology (Plant Physiol) Vol. 145 Issue 3 Pg. 853-62 (Nov 2007) ISSN: 0032-0889 [Print] United States
PMID17827272 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Arabidopsis Proteins
  • Water
  • Abscisic Acid
Topics
  • Abscisic Acid (metabolism, pharmacology)
  • Arabidopsis (metabolism, microbiology)
  • Arabidopsis Proteins (genetics, metabolism)
  • Desiccation
  • Disasters
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
  • Osmotic Pressure
  • Plant Tumors (microbiology)
  • Rhizobium (physiology)
  • Water (metabolism)

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