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Priming Maritime Pine Megagametophytes during Somatic Embryogenesis Improved Plant Adaptation to Heat Stress

Pérez-Oliver, María Amparo; Haro, Juan Gregorio; Pavlović, Iva; Novák, Ondřej; Segura, Juan; Sales, Ester; Arrillaga, Isabel (2021) Priming Maritime Pine Megagametophytes during Somatic Embryogenesis Improved Plant Adaptation to Heat Stress. Plants, 10 (3). ISSN 2223-7747

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Abstract

In the context of global climate change, forest tree research should be addressed to provide genotypes with increased resilience to high temperature events. These improved plants can be obtained by heat priming during somatic embryogenesis (SE), which would produce an epigenetic mediated transgenerational memory. Thereby, we applied 37 ◦C or 50 ◦C to maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) megagametophytes and the obtained embryogenic masses went through the subsequent SE phases to produce plants that were further subjected to heat stress conditions. A putative transcription factor WRKY11 was upregulated in priming-derived embryonal masses, and also in the regenerated P37 and P50 plants, suggesting its role in establishing an epigenetic memory in this plant species. In vitro-grown P50 plants also showed higher cytokinin content and SOD upregulation, which points to a better responsiveness to heat stress. Heat exposure of two-year-old maritime pine plants induced upregulation of HSP70 in those derived from primed embryogenic masses, that also showed better osmotic adjustment and higher increases in chlorophyll, soluble sugars and starch contents. Moreover, φPSII of P50 plants was less affected by heat exposure. Thus, our results suggest that priming at 50 ◦C at the SE induction phase is a promising strategy to improve heat resilience in maritime pine.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: heat stress ; HSP ; hormones ; Pinus pinaster ; photosynthesis ; priming ; ROS ; somatic embryogenesis ; transgenerational memory ; WRKY
Subjects: NATURAL SCIENCES > Biology
Divisions: Division of Molecular Biology
Depositing User: Iva Pavlović
Date Deposited: 01 Apr 2021 07:18
URI: http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/6364
DOI: 10.3390/plants10030446

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