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How membranes organize during seed germination: three patterns of dynamic lipid remodelling define chilling resistance and affect plastid biogenesis
Author(s) -
YU XIAOMEI,
LI AIHUA,
LI WEIQI
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
plant, cell and environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.646
H-Index - 200
eISSN - 1365-3040
pISSN - 0140-7791
DOI - 10.1111/pce.12494
Subject(s) - germination , plastid , imbibition , phospholipase d , membrane , biology , phosphatidic acid , botany , horticulture , biophysics , biochemistry , chloroplast , phospholipid , enzyme , gene
Imbibitional chilling injury during germination causes agricultural losses, but this can be overcome by osmopriming. It remains unknown how membranes reorganize during germination. Herein, we comparatively profiled changes of membrane lipids during imbibition under normal and chilling temperatures in chilling‐tolerant and ‐sensitive soybean seeds. We found three patterns of dynamic lipid remodelling during the three phases of germination. Pattern 1 involved a gradual increase in plastidic lipids during phases I and II , with an abrupt increase during phase III . This abrupt increase was associated with initiation of photosynthesis. Pattern 3 involved phosphatidic acid ( PA ) first decreasing, then increasing, and finally decreasing to a low level. Patterns 1 and 3 were interrupted in chilling‐sensitive seeds under low temperature, which lead a block in plastid biogenesis and accumulation of harmful PA , respectively. However, they were rescued and returned to their status under normal temperature after polyethylene glycol osmopriming. We specifically inhibited phospholipase D ( PLD )‐mediated PA formation in chilling‐sensitive seeds of soybean, cucumber, and pea, and found their germination under low temperature was significantly improved. These results indicate that membranes undergo specific and functional reorganization of lipid composition during germination and demonstrate that PLD ‐mediated PA causes imibibitional chilling injury.