Salt tolerance conferred by overexpression of a vacuolar Na+/H+ antiport in Arabidopsis

被引:1452
作者
Apse, MP [1 ]
Aharon, GS [1 ]
Snedden, WA [1 ]
Blumwald, E [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Toronto, Dept Bot, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2, Canada
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D O I
10.1126/science.285.5431.1256
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Agricultural productivity is severely affected by soil salinity, One possible mechanism by which plants could survive salt stress is to compartmentalize sodium ions away from the cytosol. Overexpression of a vacuolar Na+/H+ antiport from Arabidopsis thaliana in Arabidopsis plants promotes sustained growth and development in soil watered with up to 200 millimolar sodium chloride. This salinity tolerance was correlated with higher-than-normal levels of AtNHX1 transcripts, protein, and vacuolar Na+/H+ (sodium/proton) antiport activity, These results demonstrate the feasibility of engineering salt tolerance in plants.
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页码:1256 / 1258
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