Claim · model-written summary
Trehalose pretreatment significantly increased AOX1a expression under heat stress in wheat seedlings.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Organ / stage
- seedlingst0
- Treatment
- Trehalose pretreatmente0
- Gene
- AOX1ae0
- Outcome
- expressione0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- under heat stresse0
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Verbatim
e0“Trehalose pretreatment significantly increased the expression of the alternative oxidase genes AOX1a and AOX1c under heat stress”
t0“wheat seedlings”
Title
Respiration responses of wheat seedlings to treatment with trehalose under heat stress
Y. LUO; X.-Y. LIU; Y.-J. XUE; et al. Biologia Plantarum 2021. doi:10.32615/bp.2021.025
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Trehalose pretreatment significantly increased AOX1c expression under heat stress in wheat seedlings.
- Intervention effect Trehalose pretreatment increased alternative respiration pathway capacity under heat stress.
- Intervention effect Trehalose pretreatment enhanced Mal-OAA shuttle activity.
- Intervention effect Trehalose pretreatment ameliorated the heat-induced decrease in photosynthetic activity.
- Intervention effect Inhibiting the alternative pathway with salicylhydroxamic acid substantially reduced Mal-OAA shuttle activity in both control and trehalose-pretreated wheat seedlings.
- Intervention effect Inhibiting the alternative pathway with salicylhydroxamic acid substantially reduced photosynthetic efficiency in both control and trehalose-pretreated wheat seedlings.
- Intervention effect Trehalose pretreatment helped maintain inner mitochondrial respiratory activity during heat stress.
- Intervention effect Trehalose pretreatment helped maintain activity of Complex II during heat stress.
- Intervention effect Trehalose pretreatment helped maintain coupling of oxidative phosphorylation with the Complex II electron transport chain during heat stress.
- Intervention effect Trehalose pretreatment mitigated heat-related damage to the cytochrome pathway.
- Mechanism The authors propose that trehalose-mediated alternative respiration may improve wheat seedling heat tolerance by dissipating reducing equivalents and protecting photosynthesis.