Leaf application of 24‐epibrassinolide mitigates cadmium toxicity in young Eucalyptus urophylla plants by modulating leaf anatomy and gas exchange

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Felipe Silva Cunha ◽  
Victor Pereira Oliveira ◽  
Antonio Wellinton Silva Nascimento ◽  
Breno Ricardo Serrão Silva ◽  
Bruno Lemos Batista ◽  
...  
2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika A. Sudderth ◽  
Riyadh M. Muhaidat ◽  
Athena D. McKown ◽  
Ferit Kocacinar ◽  
Rowan F. Sage

Flaveria (Asteraceae) is one of the few genera known to contain both C3 and C4 species, in addition to numerous biochemically-intermediate species. C3-C4 and C4-like intermediate photosynthesis have arisen more than once in different phylogenetic clades of Flaveria. Here, we characterise for the first time the photosynthetic pathway of the recently described species Flaveria kochiana B.L. Turner. We examined leaf anatomy, activity and localisation of key photosynthetic enzymes, and gas exchange characteristics and compared these trait values with those from related C4 and C4-like Flaveria species. F. kochiana has Kranz anatomy that is typical of other C4 Flaveria species. As in the other C4 lineages within the Flaveria genus, the primary decarboxylating enzyme is NADP-malic enzyme. Immunolocalisation of the major C4 cycle enzymes, PEP carboxylase and pyruvate, orthophosphate dikinase, were restricted to the mesophyll, while Rubisco was largely localised to the bundle sheath. Gas exchange analysis demonstrated that F. kochiana operates a fully functional C4 pathway with little sensitivity to ambient oxygen levels. The CO2 compensation point (2.2 µbar) was typical for C4 species, and the O2-response of the CO2 compensation point was the same as the C4 species F. trinervia. Notably, F. vaginata (B.L. Robinson & Greenman), a putative C4-like species that is the nearest relative of F. kochiana, had an identical response of the CO2 compensation point to O2. Furthermore, F. vaginata, exhibited a carbon isotope ratio (–15.4‰) similar to C4 species including F. australasica Hooker, F. trinervia Spreng. C. Mohr and the newly characterised F. kochiana. F. vaginata could be considered a C4 species, but additional studies are necessary to confirm this hypothesis. In addition, our results show that F. kochiana uses an efficient C4 cycle, with the highest initial slope of the A/Ci curve of any C4 Flaveria species.


2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 459-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef Rouphael ◽  
Veronica De Micco ◽  
Carmen Arena ◽  
Giampaolo Raimondi ◽  
Giuseppe Colla ◽  
...  

Crop Science ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirut Kebede ◽  
Bjorn Martin ◽  
James Nienhuis ◽  
Gretchen King

Crop Science ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 1246-1251 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. LeCain ◽  
J. A. Morgan ◽  
G. Zerbi

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 557-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Pereira de Oliveira ◽  
Michael Douglas Roque Lima ◽  
Breno Ricardo Serrão da Silva ◽  
Bruno Lemos Batista ◽  
Allan Klynger da Silva Lobato

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 1369-1379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Heyduk ◽  
Nia Burrell ◽  
Falak Lalani ◽  
Jim Leebens-Mack
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2002 ◽  
Vol 95 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 39-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Chartzoulakis ◽  
A. Patakas ◽  
G. Kofidis ◽  
A. Bosabalidis ◽  
A. Nastou

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