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- Title
Expression of PIP1 and PIP2 aquaporins is enhanced in olive dwarf genotypes and is related to root and leaf hydraulic conductance.
- Authors
Lovisolo, Claudio; Secchi, Francesca; Nardini, Andrea; Salleo, Sebastiano; Buffa, Rosalia; Schubert, Andrea
- Abstract
The expression of OePIP1.1 and OePIP2.1 aquaporins in root, stem and leaf was higher in Olea europaea L. (olive) plants carrying a dwarfing (D) clone as rootstock, than in plants carrying a vigorous (M) clone as rootstock. The highest difference of expression between plants with D and M rootstocks was detected in the root and for the PIP2 gene, the transcripts of which show a high water channel activity in oocytes. Compared with plants with M rootstock, plants with D rootstock showed reduced root and canopy biomass and reduced hydraulic conductance of the bulk root system (Kroot). Hydraulic conductance of D roots was higher than that of M roots when Kroot was scaled by root DW, in agreement with a higher expression of PIP genes. Leaf hydraulic conductance scaled by unit leaf surface area was almost twice as high in leaves from D plants compared with that in leaves from M plants. Modification of root growth imposed by grafting M onto D and D onto M slightly changed expression levels of root OePIP1.1 gene, the transcripts of which show almost null water channel activity in oocytes, suggesting a role less evident for OePIP1.1 in root hydraulic reequilibration. The role of PIP aquaporin gene expression in partially compensating reductions of plant hydraulic conductance is discussed.
- Subjects
GENE expression in plants; AQUAPORINS; GENOTYPE-environment interaction; PLANT-water relationships; MEMBRANE proteins; PLANT physiology
- Publication
Physiologia Plantarum, 2007, Vol 130, Issue 4, p543
- ISSN
0031-9317
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1399-3054.2007.00902.x