Claim · model-written summary
Expressing cucumber CsLsi2 in tomato significantly increased silicon uptake.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- CsLsi2 from cucumber was expressede0
- Gene
- CsLsi2e0
- Outcome
- Si uptakee0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“when functional CsLsi2 from cucumber was expressed in tomato, the Si uptake was significantly increased”
Title
Hao Sun; Yaoke Duan; Namiki Mitani‐Ueno; et al. Plant Cell & Environment 2019. doi:10.1111/pce.13679
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation SlLsi1 transported silicon in rice mutants and Xenopus oocytes.
- Observation SlLsi1 was constitutively expressed in tomato roots.
- Observation SlLsi1 localized to the plasma membrane of root tips and basal regions without polarity.
- Intervention effect SlLsi1 overexpression raised silicon concentration in tomato roots and root cell sap.
- Intervention effect SlLsi1 overexpression did not alter silicon concentration in tomato shoots.
- Observation Two Lsi2-like proteins showed no silicon efflux activity in Xenopus oocytes.
- Intervention effect Expressing CsLsi2 increased silicon accumulation in tomato leaves.
- Intervention effect Expressing CsLsi2 enhanced tomato leaf tolerance to water deficit and heat.
- Mechanism The authors attribute low tomato silicon accumulation to the lack of a functional Lsi2 efflux transporter.