Enhanced tolerance to salinity following cellular acclimation to increasing NaCl levels in Medicago truncatula

Elmaghrabi, Adel, Ochatt, Sergio, Rogers, Hilary Joan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3830-5857 and Francis, Dennis 2013. Enhanced tolerance to salinity following cellular acclimation to increasing NaCl levels in Medicago truncatula. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC) 114 (1) , pp. 61-70. 10.1007/s11240-013-0306-2

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Abstract

Salinity is a major abiotic stress that limits plant productivity. Plants respond to salinity by switching on a coordinated set of physiological and molecular responses that can result in acclimation. Medicago truncatula is an important model legume species, thus understanding salt stress responses and acclimation in this species is of both fundamental and applied interest. The aim of this work was to test whether acclimation could enhance NaCl tolerance in calli of M. truncatula. A new protocol is described incorporating multi-step up acclimation over 0–350 mM exogenous NaCl. By the end of the experiment, calli were tolerant to 150 mM and competent for embryogenesis at 100 mM NaCl. Positive and negative linear relationships between Na+ and K+ uptake and exogenous NaCl concentration intercepted at 160 mM suggesting a Na+/K+ homeostasis. Proline level peaked at 100/150 mM whilst highest osmolarity and lowest water content occurred at 250/350 mM NaCl. The concentration of water soluble sugars was positively related to 0–250 mM NaCl whilst callus growth and embryogenesis occurred regardless of endoreduplication. Expression of genes linked to growth (WEE1), in vitro embryogenesis (SERK), salt tolerance (SOS1), proline synthesis (P5CS) and ploidy level (CCS52 and WEE1) peaked at 100/150 mM NaCl. Hence, these genes and various physiological traits except sugar levels, served as useful markers of NaCl tolerance. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a multi-step acclimation conferring tolerance to 150 mM NaCl in leaf-derived calli of M. truncatula.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QK Botany
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
ISSN:	0167-6857
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 08:23
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/52659

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