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The cassava (Manihot-esculenta Crantz)'s nitrate transporter NPF4.5, expressed in seedling roots, involved in nitrate flux and osmotic stress

Authors :
Liangping Zou
Dengfeng Qi
Shuxia Li
Min Zhai
Zhuang Li
Xin Guo
Mengbin Ruan
Xiaoling Yu
Pingjuan Zhao
Wenbin Li
Peng Zhang
Qiuxiang Ma
Ming Peng
Wenbin Liao
Source :
Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 194:122-133
Publication Year :
2023
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2023.

Abstract

AtNPF4.5/AIT2, which was predicted to be a low-affinity transporter capable for nitrate uptake, was screened by ABA receptor complex in Arabidopsis ten years ago. However, the molecular and biochemical characterizations of AtNPF4.5 in plants remained largely unclear. In this study, the function of a plasma-membrane-localized and root-specifically-expressed gene MeNPF4.5 (Manihot-esculenta NITRATE TRANSPORTER 1 PTR FAMILY4.5), an ortholog of the Arabidopsis thaliana NPF4.5, was investigated in cassava roots as a nitrate efflux transporter on low nitrate medium and an influx transporter following exposure to high concentration of external nitrates. Moreover, RNA interference (RNAi) of MeNPF4.5 reduced the nitrate efflux capacity but the overexpressing cassava seedlings increased the ability of efflux from the elongation to the mature zone of root under low nitrate treatments. Besides, MeNPF4.5-RNAi expression reduced the nitrate influx capacity but enhanced nitrate absorption in parts of overexpressing plants from the meristem, elongation to mature zone of roots under high nitrate conditions. Furthermore, MeNPF4.5-RNAi seedlings survived owing to roots that could grow normally, but the MeNPF4.5-over-expressors showed adverse growth under 7% PEG6000 stress, suggesting that MeNPF4.5 negatively regulated the osmotic stress and was involved in nitrate flux through cassava seedlings.

Subjects

Subjects :
Physiology
Genetics
Plant Science

Details

ISSN :
09819428
Volume :
194
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....38b323fa007d12d581824d4cf375cc9d