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Drought stress is a widespread abiotic stress that causes a decline in plant growth. Drought injury symptoms have been associated with an inhibition in cytokinin (CK) synthesis. The objectives of this study were to investigate whether expression of a gene ( ipt ) encoding the enzyme adenine isopentenyl phosphotransferase for CK synthesis ligated to a senescence-activated promoter ( SAG12 ) or a heat shock promoter ( HSP18.2 ) would improve drought tolerance in creeping bentgrass ( Agrostis stolonifera ) and to examine shoot and root growth responses to drought stress associated with changes in endogenous production of CK, and the proportional change in CK and abscisic acid (ABA) due to  ipt  transformation. Most  SAG12-ipt  and  HSP18.2-ipt  transgenic lines exhibited significantly higher turf quality, photochemical efficiency, chlorophyll content, leaf relative water content, and root:shoot ratio under drought stress than the null transformant or the wild-type ‘Penncross’ plants. Transgenic lines that had better growth and turf performance generally had higher CK content and a higher CK-to-ABA ratio, although the direct correlation of CK and ABA content with individual physiological parameters in individual lines was not clear. Our results demonstrated that expressing  ipt  resulted in the improvement of turf performance under drought stress in creeping bentgrass in some of the transgenic plants with  SAG12-ipt  or  HSP18.2-ipt , which could be associated with the suppression of leaf senescence and promoting root growth relative to shoot growth due to the maintenance of higher CK level and a higher ratio of CK to ABA.

journal of the american society for horticultural science

Effects of SAG12-ipt and HSP18.2-ipt Expression on Cytokinin Production, Root Growth, and Leaf Senescence in Creeping Bentgrass Exposed to Drought Stress