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ABSTRACT Various compatible solutes enable plants to tolerate abiotic stress, and glycinebetaine (GB) is one of the most‐studied among such solutes. Early research on GB focused on the maintenance of cellular osmotic potential in plant cells. Subsequent genetically engineered synthesis of GB‐biosynthetic enzymes and studies of transgenic plants demonstrated that accumulation of GB increases tolerance of plants to various abiotic stresses at all stages of their life cycle. Such GB‐accumulating plants exhibit various advantageous traits, such as enlarged fruits and flowers and/or increased seed number under non‐stress conditions. However, levels of GB in transgenic GB‐accumulating plants are relatively low being, generally, in the millimolar range. Nonetheless, these low levels of GB confer considerable tolerance to various stresses, without necessarily contributing significantly to cellular osmotic potential. Moreover, low levels of GB, applied exogenously or generated by transgenes for GB biosynthesis, can induce the expression of certain stress‐responsive genes, including those for enzymes that scavenge reactive oxygen species. Thus, transgenic approaches that increase tolerance to abiotic stress have enhanced our understanding of mechanisms that protect plants against such stress.
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Excised embryonic bean axes (Phaseolus vulgaris, var. White Marrowfat) rapidly metabolize 2-(14)C-(+/-)-abscisic acid to two compounds, M-1 and M-2, which have very low growth-inhibitory activity. Chemical tests indicate the M-1 and M-2 are not previously described abscisic acid metabolites. M-2 accumulates in the axes and evidence is presented for the hypothesis that abscisic acid --> M-1 --> M-2. Zeatin, which partially reverses the abscisic acid-mediated growth inhibition of axes, neither decreases abscisic acid uptake nor causes any major changes in its metabolism. It was observed that axes transferred from abscisic acid-containing solutions to buffer resume control rates of fresh weight increase while still containing considerable quantities of abscisic acid.
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Tomato shoots that had been (a) fed (�)-[2H9]abscisic aldehyde via the xylem or (b) fed H218O together with (�)-[2H9]abscisic aldehyde via the xylem or (c) exposed to 18O2 and fed (�)-[2H9]abscisic aldehyde, were then wilted. The abscisic acid present was isolated, methylated and resolved into (+)- and (-)- methyl abscisate. These methyl abscisate samples were then examined by negative ion chemical ionisation (methane) gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. The undeuteriated (+)-abscisic acid contained no 180 from H218O but did contain one 18O from 18O2. No 18O from either of these sources was present in the undeuteriated (-)-abscisic acid. It was not possible to discount the xanthophyll hypothesis for the origin of stress-induced abscisic acid on the basis of these experiments. Both (+)- and (-)- multiply deuteriated abscisic acid contained one and two 18O atoms from H218O but none from 18O2. It is postulated that this multiply deuteriated (�)-abscisic acid is formed by a separate enzyme system from that which forms endogenous stress-induced (+)-abscisic acid. On the basis of the low incor- poration of abscisic aldehyde into abscisic acid, it is suggested that the endogenous precursor of stress- induced abscisic acid is an as yet unidentified structure and that abscisic aldehyde competes with it.
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Advances have been made in the development of drought-tolerant transgenic plants, including cereals. Rice, one of the most important cereals, is considered to be a critical target for improving drought tolerance, as present-day rice cultivation requires large quantities of water and as drought-tolerant rice plants should be able to grow in small amounts of water. Numerous transgenic rice plants showing enhanced drought tolerance have been developed to date. Such genetically engineered plants have generally been developed using genes encoding proteins that control drought regulatory networks. These proteins include transcription factors, protein kinases, receptor-like kinases, enzymes related to osmoprotectant or plant hormone synthesis, and other regulatory or functional proteins. Of the drought-tolerant transgenic rice plants described in this review, approximately one-third show decreased plant height under non-stressed conditions or in response to abscisic acid treatment. In cereal crops, plant height is a very important agronomic trait directly affecting yield, although the improvement of lodging resistance should also be taken into consideration. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms of plant growth reduction under drought stress conditions holds promise for developing transgenic plants that produce high yields under drought stress conditions. Plant growth rates are reduced more rapidly than photosynthetic activity under drought conditions, implying that plants actively reduce growth in response to drought stress. In this review, we summarize studies on molecular regulatory networks involved in response to drought stress. In a separate section, we highlight progress in the development of transgenic drought-tolerant rice plants, with special attention paid to field trial investigations.
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The main activities of abscisic acid in seeds are abscisic acid synthesis,catabolism,transport and response.Abscisic acid levels,the specific enzyme and the transcription factor in signal transduction pathway of abscisic acid,the relation between abscisic acid and dormancy of seeds are reviewed in this paper.
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As an important plant hormone,abscisic acid(ABA)plays a crucial role in abiotic stress response and tolerance of plants.In this paper,the biosynthesis and catabolism of ABA,the major ABA signaling pathway and its role in regulating plant tolerance to abiotic stress were described;and also ABA synthesis and molecular mechanisms and response to abiotic stress ABA generate resistance and other aspects of the molecular mechanisms in the regulation of the plant were discussed.
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The closure of stomata by abscisic acid was examined in several species of plants through measurements of CO(2) and H(2)O exchange by the leaf. The onset of closure was very rapid, beginning at 3 minutes from the time of abscisic acid application to the cut base of the leaf of corn, or at 8 or 9 minutes for bean, Rumex and sugarbeet; rose leaves were relatively slow at 32 minutes. The timing and the concentration of abscisic acid needed to cause closure were related to the amounts of endogenous abscisic acid in the leaf. Closure was obtained in bean leaves with 8.9 picomoles/cm(2). (+)-Abscisic acid had approximately twice the activity of the racemic material. The methyl ester of abscisic acid was inactive, and trans-abscisic acid was likewise inactive. The effects of stress on levels of endogenous abscisic acid, and the ability of very small amounts of abscisic acid to cause rapid closure suggests that stomatal control is a regulatory function of this hormone.
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