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Glucose alleviates cadmium toxicity by increasing cadmium fixation in root cell wall and sequestration into vacuole in Arabidopsis
Author(s) -
Shi YuanZhi,
Zhu XiaoFang,
Wan JiangXue,
Li GuiXin,
Zheng ShaoJian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of integrative plant biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.734
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1744-7909
pISSN - 1672-9072
DOI - 10.1111/jipb.12312
Subject(s) - vacuole , shoot , chlorosis , cadmium , cell wall , arabidopsis , toxicity , arabidopsis thaliana , biology , chemistry , biochemistry , botany , cytoplasm , gene , organic chemistry , mutant
Glucose (Glu) is involved in not only plant physiological and developmental events but also plant responses to abiotic stresses. Here, we found that the exogenous Glu improved root and shoot growth, reduced shoot cadmium (Cd) concentration, and rescued Cd‐induced chlorosis in Arabidopsis thaliana (Columbia ecotype, Col‐0) under Cd stressed conditions. Glucose increased Cd retained in the roots, thus reducing its translocation from root to shoot significantly. The most Cd retained in the roots was found in the hemicellulose 1. Glucose combined with Cd (Glu + Cd) treatment did not affect the content of pectin and its binding capacity of Cd while it increased the content of hemicelluloses 1 and the amount of Cd retained in it significantly. Furthermore, Leadmium Green staining indicated that more Cd was compartmented into vacuoles in Glu + Cd treatment compared with Cd treatment alone, which was in accordance with the significant upregulation of the expression of tonoplast‐localized metal transporter genes, suggesting that compartmentation of Cd into vacuoles also contributes to the Glu‐alleviated Cd toxicity. Taken together, we demonstrated that Glu‐alleviated Cd toxicity is mediated through increasing Cd fixation in the root cell wall and sequestration into the vacuoles.