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Rapid depolarization and cytosolic calcium increase go hand-in-hand in mesophyll cells' ozone response

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New Phytol, 232 (4): 1692-1702 (2021)Nuhkat, Maris Brosche, Mikael Stoelzle-Feix, Sonja Dietrich, Petra Hedrich, Rainer Roelfsema, M Rob G Kollist, Hannes eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2021/09/06 New Phytol. 2021 Nov;232(4):1692-1702. doi: 10.1111/nph.17711. Epub 2021 Sep 23..
DOI: 10.1111/nph.17711

Abstract

Plant stress signalling involves bursts of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which can be mimicked by the application of acute pulses of ozone. Such ozone-pulses inhibit photosynthesis and trigger stomatal closure in a few minutes, but the signalling that underlies these responses remains largely unknown. We measured changes in Arabidopsis thaliana gas exchange after treatment with acute pulses of ozone and set up a system for simultaneous measurement of membrane potential and cytosolic calcium with the fluorescent reporter R-GECO1. We show that within 1 min, prior to stomatal closure, O(3) triggered a drop in whole-plant CO(2) uptake. Within this early phase, O(3) pulses (200-1000 ppb) elicited simultaneous membrane depolarization and cytosolic calcium increase, whereas these pulses had no long-term effect on either stomatal conductance or photosynthesis. In contrast, pulses of 5000 ppb O(3) induced cell death, systemic Ca(2+) signals and an irreversible drop in stomatal conductance and photosynthetic capacity. We conclude that mesophyll cells respond to ozone in a few seconds by distinct pattern of plasma membrane depolarizations accompanied by an increase in the cytosolic calcium ion (Ca(2+) ) level. These responses became systemic only at very high ozone concentrations. Thus, plants have rapid mechanism to sense and discriminate the strength of ozone signals.

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