Light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding proteins are required for stomatal response to abscisic acid in Arabidopsis
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Published on: March 30, 2018
1College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China.
Abstract:
The light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b binding proteins (LHCB) are perhaps the most abundant membrane proteins in nature. It is reported here that the down-regulation or disruption of any member of the LHCB family, LHCB1, LHCB2, LHCB3, LHCB4, LHCB5, or LHCB6, reduces responsiveness of stomatal movement to ABA, and therefore results in a decrease in plant tolerance to drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. By contrast, over-expression of a LHCB member, LHCB6, enhances stomatal sensitivity to ABA. In addition, the reactive oxygen species (ROS) homeostasis and a set of ABA-responsive genes are altered in the lhcb mutants. These data demonstrate that LHCBs play a positive role in guard cell signalling in response to ABA and suggest that they may be involved in ABA signalling partly by modulating ROS homeostasis.
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