ArticlePlant signaling & behavior2010
Re-examining the role of ABA as the primary long-distance signal produced by water-stressed roots.
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- Abscisic Acid: Role in Fruit Development and Ripening.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
- Differential regulation of drought stress by biological membrane transporters and channels.Plant cell reports · 2021Review
- Leaf-derived ABA regulates rice seed development via a transporter-mediated and temperature-sensitive mechanism.Science advances · 2021Article
- Detailed Genetic Analysis for Identifying QTLs Associated with Drought Tolerance at Seed Germination and Seedling Stages in Barley.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Root Physiological Traits and Transcriptome Analyses Reveal that Root Zone Water Retention Confers Drought Tolerance to Opisthopappus taihangensis.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Drought tolerance of the grapevine, Vitis champinii cv. Ramsey, is associated with higher photosynthesis and greater transcriptomic responsiveness of abscisic acid biosynthesis and signaling.BMC plant biology · 2020Article
- Genes Encoding Transcription Factors TaDREB5 and TaNFYC-A7 Are Differentially Expressed in Leaves of Bread Wheat in Response to Drought, Dehydration and ABA.Frontiers in plant science · 2018Article
- The Arabidopsis DNA Methylome Is Stable under Transgenerational Drought Stress.Plant physiology · 2017Article
- Drought-Enhanced Xylem Sap Sulfate Closes Stomata by Affecting ALMT12 and Guard Cell ABA Synthesis.Plant physiology · 2017Article
- Sulfate transporters in the plant's response to drought and salinity: regulation and possible functions.Frontiers in plant science · 2014Review
- Membrane transporters and drought resistance - a complex issue.Frontiers in plant science · 2014Review
- Vacuolar transport of abscisic acid glucosyl ester is mediated by ATP-binding cassette and proton-antiport mechanisms in Arabidopsis.Plant physiology · 2013Article
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Abstract
The role of ABA as the primary long-distance signal produced by water-stressed roots and transported to stomata continues to be challenged. We have recently reported that expression of ABA biosynthetic genes in roots only increases in the later stage of water stress. Our results support the hypothesis that in early water stress, increased levels of ABA in xylem sap are due to leaf biosynthesis and translocation to roots and from there to xylem. If so, other xylem-borne chemicals may be the primary stress signal(s) inducing ABA biosynthesis in leaves. We found that apart from ABA, sulfate was the only xylem-borne chemical that consistently showed higher concentrations from early to later water stress. We also found increased expression of a sulfate transporter gene in roots from early water stress onwards. Moreover, using bioassays we found an interactive effect of ABA and sulfate in decreasing maize transpiration rate, as compared to ABA alone. While ABA is undoubtedly the key mediator of water stress responses such as stomatal closure, it may not be the primary signal produced by roots perceiving water stress.
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