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Environmental and Stress Physiology

Abscisic Acid Stimulated Osmotic Adjustment and Its Involvement in Adaptation of Tobacco Cells to NaCl ¹

Department of Horticulture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907

Osmotic adjustment of cultured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. var Wisconsin 38) cells was stimulated by 10 micromolar (±) abscisic acid (ABA) during adaptation to water deficit imposed by various solutes including NaCl, KCl, K₂SO₄, Na₂SO₄, sucrose, mannitol, or glucose. The maximum difference in cell osmotic potential () caused by ABA treatment during adaptation to 171 millimolar NaCl was about 6 to 7 bar. The cell differences elicited by ABA were not due to growth inhibition since ABA stimulated growth of cells in the presence of 171 millimolar NaCl. ABA caused a cell difference of about 1 to 2 bar in medium without added NaCl. Intracellular concentrations of Na⁺, K⁺, Cl^–, free amino acids, or organic acids could not account for the differences induced by ABA in NaCl treated cells. However, since growth of NaCl treated cells is more rapid in the presence of ABA than in its absence, greater accumulation of Na⁺, K⁺, and Cl^– was necessary for ion pool maintenance. Higher intracellular sucrose and reducing sugar concentrations could account for the majority of the greater osmotic adjustment of ABA treated cells. More rapid accumulation of proline associated with ABA treatment was highly correlated with the effects of ABA on cell . These and other data indicate that the role of ABA in accelerating salt adaptation is not mediated by simply stimulating osmotic adjustment.

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