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ArticleJournal of experimental botany2016

Overexpression of the rice AKT1 potassium channel affects potassium nutrition and rice drought tolerance.

Izhar Ahmad, Afaq Mian, Frans J M Maathuis

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Article in Journal of experimental botany, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53 citing papers in PubMed, 160 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Izhar AhmadDepartment of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Afaq MianDepartment of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Frans J M MaathuisDepartment of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK frans.maathuis@york.ac.uk.
The University of Agriculture, Peshawar · PKOklahoma State University Oklahoma City · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Potassium (K(+)) is the most important cationic nutrient for all living organisms and has roles in most aspects of plant physiology. To assess the impact of one of the main K(+) uptake components, the K(+) inward rectifying channel AKT1, we characterized both loss of function and overexpression of OsAKT1 in rice. In many conditions, AKT1 expression correlated with K(+) uptake and tissue K(+) levels. No salinity-related growth phenotype was observed for either loss or gain of function mutants. However, a correlation between AKT1 expression and root Na(+) when the external Na/K ratio was high suggests that there may be a role for AKT1 in Na(+) uptake in such conditions. In contrast to findings with Arabidopsis thaliana, we did not detect any change in growth of AKT1 loss of function mutants in the presence of NH4 (+) Nevertheless, NH4 (+)-dependent inhibition was detected during K(+) uptake assays in loss of function and wild type plants, depending on pre-growth conditions. The most prominent result of OsAKT1 overexpression was a reduction in sensitivity to osmotic/drought stress in transgenic plants: the data suggest that AKT1 overexpression improved rice osmotic and drought stress tolerance by increasing tissue levels of K(+), especially in the root.

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DehydrationOryzaPlant ProteinsPlant RootsPlants, Genetically ModifiedPlant ShootsPotassiumPotassium ChannelsPlant ProteinsPotassiumPotassium ChannelsDroughtion channelOryza sativaOsAKT1osmotic stressrice.

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PMID26969743
PMCPMC4861017
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