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Plants under drought-stress generate activated oxygen.

A H Price1, N M Atherton, G A Hendry

  • 1Unit of Comparative Plant Ecology (NERC), Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Sheffield, UK.

Free Radical Research Communications
|January 1, 1989
PubMed
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Drought-stressed wheat chloroplasts generate superoxide radicals, which react with accumulating iron to form hydroxyl radicals, causing plant damage. This study reveals a key mechanism of drought-induced cellular injury in plants.

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Area of Science:

  • Plant Physiology
  • Biochemistry
  • Environmental Stress Biology

Background:

  • Drought stress significantly impacts plant physiology, leading to cellular damage.
  • Chloroplasts are central to photosynthesis and susceptible to stress-induced dysfunction.
  • The role of reactive oxygen species and metal ions in drought pathology requires further elucidation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the generation of reactive oxygen species in chloroplasts from droughted wheat.
  • To determine the role of iron accumulation in drought-induced cellular damage.
  • To elucidate the mechanism linking impaired electron transport, radical formation, and plant pathology.

Main Methods:

  • Preparation of lysed chloroplasts from wheat plants subjected to varying degrees of drought stress.

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  • Detection of superoxide radical (O2-) generation using electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy.
  • Quantification of iron concentration in droughted wheat shoots.

    • Main Results:

    • Illumination of lysed chloroplasts from droughted plants induced superoxide radical (O2-) formation, with signal amplitude correlating to drought severity.
    • Iron concentration significantly increased in droughted shoots, reaching approximately 2.5 mM in cell sap.
    • Radical formation and chlorophyll degradation followed a similar time-course, suggesting a linked process.

    Conclusions:

    • Impaired chloroplast electron transport during drought stress leads to superoxide radical (O2-) generation.
    • Accumulated iron in droughted tissues reacts with superoxide radicals to form highly damaging hydroxyl radicals.
    • This iron-mediated hydroxyl radical formation is proposed as a primary cause of cellular pathology in drought-stressed wheat plants.