Research progress of aldehyde oxidases in plants

Jun Wu; Blair Moses Kamanga; Wenying Zhang; Yanhao Xu; Le Xu

doi:10.7717/peerj.13119

Research progress of aldehyde oxidases in plants

PeerJ. 2022 Mar 25:10:e13119. doi: 10.7717/peerj.13119. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Jun Wu¹, Blair Moses Kamanga¹, Wenying Zhang¹, Yanhao Xu², Le Xu¹

Affiliations

¹ Engineering Research Centre of Ecology and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Ministry of Education, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China.
² Hubei Academy of Agricultural Science, Wuhan, China.

Abstract

Plant aldehyde oxidases (AOs) are multi-functional enzymes, and they could oxidize abscisic aldehyde into ABA (abscisic acid) or indole acetaldehyde into IAA (indoleacetic acid) as the last step, respectively. AOs can be divided into four groups based on their biochemical and physiological functions. In this review, we summarized the recent studies about AOs in plants including the motif information, biochemical, and physiological functions. Besides their role in phytohormones biosynthesis and stress response, AOs could also involve in reactive oxygen species homeostasis, aldehyde detoxification and stress tolerance.

Keywords: Abscisic acid; Aldehyde oxidases; Indoleacetic acid; Stress.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Abscisic Acid
Aldehyde Oxidase*
Aldehydes
Plant Growth Regulators*
Reactive Oxygen Species

Substances

Aldehyde Oxidase
Plant Growth Regulators
Abscisic Acid
Aldehydes
Reactive Oxygen Species

Grants and funding

The work was supported by the funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31901438) and crop varietal improvement and insect pests control by nuclear radiation program. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.