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Drought is one of the environmental factors that severely restrict plant distribution and crop production. Recently, we reported that the high-affinity potassium transporter OsHAK1 plays important roles in K acquisition and translocation in rice over low and high K concentration ranges, however, knowledge on the regulatory roles of OsHAK1 in osmotic/drought stress is limited. Here, transcript levels of  OsHAK1  were found transiently elevated by water deficit in roots and shoots, consistent with the enhanced GUS activity in transgenic plants under stress. Under drought conditions,  OsHAK1  knockout mutants (KO) presented lower tolerance to the stress and displayed stunted growth at both the vegetative and reproductive stages. Phenotypic analysis of  OsHAK1  overexpression seedlings (Ox) demonstrated that they present better tolerance to drought stress than wild-type (WT). Compared to WT seedlings,  OsHAK1  overexpressors had lower level of lipid peroxidation, higher activities of antioxidant enzymes (POX and CAT) and higher proline accumulation. Furthermore, qPCR analysis revealed that  OsHAK1  act as a positive regulator of the expression of stress-responsive genes as well as of two well-known rice channel genes ( OsTPKb  and  OsAKT1 ) involved in K homeostasis and stress responses in transgenic plants under dehydration. Most important,  OsHAK1 -Ox plants displayed enhanced drought tolerance at the reproductive stage, resulting in 35% more grain yield than WT under drought conditions, and without exhibiting significant differences under normal growth conditions. Consequently,  OsHAK1  can be considered to be used in molecular breeding for improvement of drought tolerance in rice.

OsHAK1, a High-Affinity Potassium Transporter, Positively Regulates Responses to Drought Stress in Rice