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Intracellular levels of Mg 2+ are tightly regulated, as Mg 2+ deficiency or excess affects normal plant growth and development. In Arabidopsis, we determined that phospholipase Dα1 (PLDα1) is involved in the stress response to high-magnesium conditions. The T-DNA insertion mutant pldα1 is hypersensitive to increased concentrations of magnesium, exhibiting reduced primary root length and fresh weight. PLDα1 activity increases rapidly after high-Mg 2+ treatment, and this increase was found to be dose dependent. Two lines harbouring mutations in the HKD motif, which is essential for PLDα1 activity, displayed the same high-Mg 2+ hypersensitivity of pldα1 plants. Moreover, we show that high concentrations of Mg 2+ disrupt K + homeostasis, and that transcription of K + homeostasis-related genes CIPK9 and HAK5 is impaired in pldα1. Additionally, we found that the akt1, hak5 double mutant is hypersensitive to high-Mg 2+ . We conclude that in Arabidopsis, the enzyme activity of PLDα1 is vital in the response to high-Mg 2+ conditions, and that PLDα1 mediates this response partially through regulation of K + homeostasis., (© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)