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Plant Physiol, November 2001, Vol. 127, pp. 963-972

Attenuation of Phosphate Starvation Responses by Phosphite in Arabidopsis1

Carla A. Ticconi, Carla A. Delatorre, and Steffen Abel*

Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616

When inorganic phosphate is limiting, Arabidopsis has the facultative ability to metabolize exogenous nucleic acid substrates, which we utilized previously to identify insensitive phosphate starvation response mutants in a conditional genetic screen. In this study, we examined the effect of the phosphate analog, phosphite (Phi), on molecular and morphological responses to phosphate starvation. Phi significantly inhibited plant growth on phosphate-sufficient (2 mM) and nucleic acid-containing (2 mM phosphorus) media at concentrations higher than 2.5 mM. However, with respect to suppressing typical responses to phosphate limitation, Phi effects were very similar to those of phosphate. Phosphate starvation responses, which we examined and found to be almost identically affected by both anions, included changes in: (a) the root-to-shoot ratio; (b) root hair formation; (c) anthocyanin accumulation; (d) the activities of phosphate starvation-inducible nucleolytic enzymes, including ribonuclease, phosphodiesterase, and acid phosphatase; and (e) steady-state mRNA levels of phosphate starvation-inducible genes. It is important that induction of primary auxin response genes by indole-3-acetic acid in the presence of growth-inhibitory Phi concentrations suggests that Phi selectively inhibits phosphate starvation responses. Thus, the use of Phi may allow further dissection of phosphate signaling by genetic selection for constitutive phosphate starvation response mutants on media containing organophosphates as the only source of phosphorus.

1 This work was supported by the United States Department of Energy and by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil (predoctoral fellowship to C.A.D.).

* Corresponding author; e-mail sabel{at}ucdavis.edu; fax 530-752-9659.

© 2001 American Society of Plant Physiologists


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