Rapid Responses to Abiotic Stress: Priming the Landscape for the Signal Transduction Network

Hannes Kollist; Sara I Zandalinas; Soham Sengupta; Maris Nuhkat; Jaakko Kangasjärvi; Ron Mittler

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2018.10.003

Rapid Responses to Abiotic Stress: Priming the Landscape for the Signal Transduction Network

Trends Plant Sci. 2019 Jan;24(1):25-37. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2018.10.003. Epub 2018 Nov 3.

Authors

Hannes Kollist¹, Sara I Zandalinas², Soham Sengupta³, Maris Nuhkat¹, Jaakko Kangasjärvi⁴, Ron Mittler⁵

Affiliations

¹ Plant Signal Research Group, Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Tartu 50411, Estonia.
² The Division of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65201, USA; The Department of Surgery, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65201, USA.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203-5017, USA.
⁴ Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland.
⁵ The Division of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65201, USA; The Department of Surgery, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65201, USA. Electronic address: mittlerr@missouri.edu.

PMID: 30401516
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2018.10.003

Abstract

Plants grow and reproduce within a highly dynamic environment that can see abrupt changes in conditions, such as light intensity, temperature, humidity, or interactions with biotic agents. Recent studies revealed that plants can respond within seconds to some of these conditions, engaging many different metabolic and molecular networks, as well as rapidly altering their stomatal aperture. Some of these rapid responses were further shown to propagate throughout the entire plant via waves of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and Ca²⁺ that are possibly mediated through the plant vascular system. Here, we propose that the integration of these signals is mediated through pulses of gene expression that are coordinated throughout the plant in a systemic manner by the ROS/Ca⁺² waves.

Keywords: physiology; rapid response; reactive oxygen; signal transduction; stomata; stress.

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Environment
Plant Physiological Phenomena*
Plant Stomata / physiology
Plants / metabolism
Signal Transduction* / physiology
Stress, Physiological / physiology*