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First published online November 16, 2007; 10.1104/pp.107.109413 Plant Physiology 146:178-188 (2008) © 2008 American Society of Plant Biologists Salt Modulates Gravity Signaling Pathway to Regulate Growth Direction of Primary Roots in Arabidopsis1,[C]State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Center of Agricultural Resources, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050021, China (F.S., W.Z., H.H., Y.W., Y.Z., K.L., M.L., X.L.); and Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, People's Republic of China (Y.W., Y.Z.)
Plant root architecture is highly plastic during development and can adapt to many environmental stresses. The proper distribution of roots within the soil under various conditions such as salinity, water deficit, and nutrient deficiency greatly affects plant survival. Salinity profoundly affects the root system architecture of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). However, despite the inhibitory effects of salinity on root length and the number of roots, very little is known concerning influence of salinity on root growth direction and the underlying mechanisms. Here we show that salt modulates root growth direction by reducing the gravity response. Exposure to salt stress causes rapid degradation of amyloplasts in root columella cells of Arabidopsis. The altered root growth direction in response to salt was found to be correlated with PIN-FORMED2 (PIN2) messenger RNA abundance and expression and localization of the protein. Furthermore, responsiveness to gravity of salt overly sensitive (sos) mutants is substantially reduced, indicating that salt-induced altered gravitropism of root growth is mediated by ion disequilibrium. Mutation of SOS genes also leads to reduced amyloplast degradation in root tip columella cells and the defects in PIN2 gene expression in response to salt stress. These results indicate that the SOS pathway may mediate the decrease of PIN2 messenger RNA in salinity-induced modification of gravitropic response in Arabidopsis roots. Our findings provide new insights into the development of a root system necessary for plant adaptation to high salinity and implicate an important role of the SOS signaling pathway in this process.
Under normal conditions, after germination, the primary root exhibits gravitropism by growing downward. Studies on gravity perception and the tropic response function of the root cap at the primary root of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) strongly support the starch statolith hypothesis to explain gravity sensing (Kiss et al., 1989  ; Blancaflor et al., 1998; Morita and Tasaka, 2004). In this hypothesis, the columella cells in the root cap, which contain sedimentable amyloplasts, are the gravity-perceptive site in roots. Among the cells of the columella, the inner cells of the second tier have been proposed as making the greatest contribution to root gravitropism (Blancaflor et al., 1998). These cells have the fastest amyloplast sedimentation rates and generate the largest increase in gravisignaling-related cytoplasmic pH change in response to gravistimulation (Blancaflor et al., 1998; Scott and Allen, 1999; Fasano et al., 2001). Although the mechanosensing receptors and/or channels that sense amyloplast movement are still unknown, evidence suggests that cytosolic ions such as Ca2+ and rapid cytoplasmic alkalization may be involved in gravity signal transduction (Legue et al., 1997; Scott and Allen, 1999; Fasano et al., 2001; Johannes et al., 2001; Plieth and Trewavas, 2002; Hou et al., 2004). Asymmetric distribution of auxin in roots caused by basipetal transport mainly through the auxin efflux carrier PIN-FORMED2 (PIN2), which is distributed asymmetrically within the cells, results in gravitropic root response of the root elongation zone (Muller et al., 1998; Friml and Palme, 2002; Moore, 2002; Morita and Tasaka, 2004; Abas et al., 2006; Jaillais et al., 2006). This is the well-known Cholodny-Went hypothesis, which has been strongly supported by recent molecular genetic and biochemical evidence. However, there are still many unanswered questions about this process, such as how the signal generated by amyloplast sedimentation during gravistimulation is transmitted to cause auxin asymmetric distribution.
Owing to their sessile nature, plant roots constantly encounter various environmental stimuli in the soil, such as physical obstacles, and imbalanced distribution of water and/or nutrients. Therefore, plants have evolved highly adaptive regulatory mechanisms to sense and respond to both internal and external signals in an intricate and precise way. Plant root systems show high plasticity in development and can adapt their architecture in response to a variety of external stimuli to maintain optimal growth patterns (Lynch, 1995
Another major constraint to root system development is soil salinity, which limits the productivity of agricultural crops and the distribution of plant species (Flowers and Yeo, 1995 We have observed that roots of Arabidopsis exhibit reduced gravitropism under salt stress, growing against the gravity vector. We speculated that the reduced gravitropism of root growth might be an important adaptive mechanism through which plants regulate root system architecture to avoid damage of elevated salt. Therefore, our objective was to better understand interaction of the ion and gravity-sensing pathways and the relative roles in the control of root growth direction. To do so, we analyzed the growth of Arabidopsis roots in response to simultaneous gravity and salt stimulation. We found that roots respond to salinity with a change in growth direction in a way that represents an apparent adaptive compromise between gravitropic and salt stimulation. These results suggest that gravitropic signaling and responses in the root cap are controlled, at least in part, by the SOS pathway. Therefore, the ion-sensing SOS signaling pathway may interact with the gravity-sensing system in the columella cells to direct root growth in a coordinated manner. Such an understanding could help breed salt-tolerant plant varieties for agricultural production.
Salt Stress Affects Gravitropic Curvature of Arabidopsis Roots It is known that salt stress inhibits growth of primary roots in Arabidopsis seedlings. Interestingly, in our experiments, we observed that salt stress also modulates gravitropism of the primary roots of young seedlings. When planted vertically, the 5-d-old seedlings germinated normally on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium containing various concentrations of NaCl, growth direction of the root changed along with increasing NaCl concentrations, and the roots of the stressed plants curved on 150 mM NaCl medium (Figs. 1A and 2B ). To confirm the effect of salt on root growth direction, we repeated this experiment in darkness to exclude the possible influence of light. Essentially, the same results were obtained (data not shown). We also designed a two-layer medium experiment in which media supplemented with different concentrations of NaCl was on the bottom and normal MS medium on the top. As shown in Figure 1B, the roots of Columbia-0 (Col-0) seedlings penetrated the interface of the layers and grew straight downwards when both layers were MS media. In contrast, changes in the root growth direction of the seedlings were observed in response to salt stress from the bottom medium. When the bottom medium contained 150 mM NaCl, a small change in root growth direction of the Col-0 seedlings was observed. The primary roots did not pass the interface between normal MS and salt medium, and they grew either along the interface or became curved (Fig. 1B). When the salt concentration in the medium on the bottom was increased to 250 mM, loss of root gravitropism was observed at an early stage, and the root tips bent upwards before they met the MS-salt medium interface (Fig. 1B).
To better understand this tropistic response of Arabidopsis roots to salt, a dose response curve for elongation of gravitropic curvature of Arabidopsis Col-0 primary roots was investigated at various NaCl concentrations (25, 50, 75, 100, and 150 mM). Extreme high salt (NaCl concentrations > 200 mM) was not included in the experiments, because root growth was almost completely inhibited at these concentrations. The alteration of gravitropic response was presented as curvature of root (Fig. 2A). As shown in Figures 2B and 3A , the curvature was increased by salt treatment at the concentrations tested in a dose-dependent manner. At 25 mM NaCl, the primary roots of Arabidopsis seedlings showed normal gravitropism. Loss of gravitropism in roots started to be observed at 50 mM NaCl and was greatest at 150 mM NaCl with more than 85% of the seedlings showing a negative gravitropic response. The results suggest that salt stress and salt-induced signal transduction modulates root growth direction without regard to gravity.
Salt Stress Caused Rapid Degradation of Amyloplasts in Columella Cells Amyloplasts in columella cells of primary roots have been proposed to play a critical role in gravity sensing in both roots and shoots. To examine whether salt alters amyloplasts in roots, the amyloplasts were visualized by staining with iodine-potassium iodide solution. We found that the amount of amyloplasts in columella cells of roots was substantially decreased with increasing concentrations of NaCl (Fig. 4A ). A time course investigation showed that the reduction of amyloplasts was directly correlated with the level of salt stress (Fig. 4, A and B). Under salt stress (NaCl > 50 mM) digestion of amyloplasts was evident about 0.5 to 1 h after treatment, and the amount of amyloplasts continued to decline with prolonged time of treatment. The minimum amount of amyloplasts was observed at about 8 h after exposure to salt.
Interestingly, the amount of amyloplasts in the columella cells was gradually restored to nearly the original level within 48 to 72 h if the seedlings continued to be exposed to salt stress at 100 mM or lower. Prolonged exposure to high salt at 150 mM NaCl resulted in restoration of the amyloplast level to some degree but not to the level of untreated control plants (Fig. 4, A and B). However, the gravitropic growth response of the stressed roots was not recovered under these circumstances, suggesting that salt stress suppressed the gravisensing and the subsequent gravitropic growth of the roots. By contrast, gravitropism recovered when salt-stressed plants were transferred back to MS medium (normal conditions). Starch content was also completely restored to the levels prior to salt stress within 24 h (Fig. 4D). Together, these results suggest that salt-induced changes in starch metabolism in root tip cells may contribute to both altered gravisensing and adaptation of plants to saline environments.
Arabidopsis sos mutants (sos1-1, sos2-1, and sos3-1) were subjected to gravitropic analyses and statolith staining. Because these mutants are hypersensitive to salt stress, NaCl concentrations in the media were correspondingly reduced. The results showed that salt stress induced a pronounced agravitropic response in primary roots of the sos mutant seedlings based on the root curvature measurement (Fig. 3, B–D). Compared with the wild-type seedlings, loss of gravitropism in sos seedlings occurred at a lower concentration (25 mM) of NaCl. When grown on 25 mM NaCl, 50% to 65% of sos mutant roots showed altered gravitropic growth, whereas 100% of the wild type responded normally to gravity. Exposure to 100 mM NaCl resulted in about 50% of wild-type seedlings losing their gravitropism (Fig. 3A), whereas 80% to 90% sos mutant roots lost their gravitropism (Fig. 3, B–D). Also, there were more plant roots with a larger degree of curvature, at certain concentrations of NaCl from 50 to 100 mM, in sos mutants than wild-type seedlings. Furthermore, the percentage of seedlings showing an altered gravitropic response was highest in sos1, followed by sos2 and sos3 (Fig. 3, B–D), which correlates well with their salt sensitivity (Zhu et al., 1998 To further confirm that the increased loss of gravitropism displayed by sos mutants is related to ion sensitivity, we examined the root gravitropic growth response under osmotic stress using mannitol as the osmotic stress. We found that nonionic osmotic stress also suppressed the gravitropic response of roots. The percentage of roots losing gravitropism increased with increasing concentration of mannitol in a dose-dependent manner in wild-type Arabidopsis (Fig. 5A ). The sos1-1 mutant roots exhibited a similar pattern of gravitropic response (Fig. 5C) and amyloplast metabolism compared to the wild type (Fig. 5, B and D). No difference in root gravitropic response among sos1-1, sos2-1, and sos3-1 mutant plants was observed (data not shown). These results confirm that SOS1, SOS2, and SOS3 are not involved in nonionic osmotic stress-induced agravitropic growth of Arabidopsis roots. Salt-induced modification of gravitropic growth appears to be mediated by ion disequilibrium and can be modulated by the SOS signaling pathway. Alteration in root growth direction against the gravity vector appears to be an adaptive mechanism that adjusts the root distribution to cope with saline conditions.
Growth Arrest of Roots Is Regulated Independently from Root Curvature To precisely examine the effects of salt on root tropism and how this is related to root growth, we performed a time course analysis of root growth and curvature. The Arabidopsis seedlings were transferred to a medium containing 150 mM NaCl and then gravitropism was stimulated by reorienting the plates by 90°. Figure 2, C to E, shows that, in salt-treated wild-type seedlings, root elongation and root curving commenced at about 8 h after salt treatment and gravitropic stimulation compared with immediate action in the untreated control seedlings. The majority of roots exhibited agravitropic response and amyloplasts in the columella cells showed rapid degradation. The difference in growth inhibition between treated and untreated roots was more pronounced during a prolonged period of treatment (Fig. 2, C–E), and the curvature of roots was also substantially increased under salt stress, and the maximum increase in curvature recorded was approximately 55° at 24 h after reorientation. The results also showed greater curvature in salt-treated roots than that in untreated control roots at an equivalent root length. As shown in Figure 2, C to F, the wild-type seedling grown on 0 mM NaCl medium for 24 h and on 150 mM NaCl medium for 96 h had almost the same quantity of elongation (about 5 mm). However, the root curvature (40°) under salt stress was much larger that that on 0 mM NaCl medium (20°). This result suggests that salt stress affects root gravitropism more profoundly than simply root growth or elongation. This is further indicated by the observation that some seedlings even exhibited negative and not just reduced gravitropism in response to 150 mM NaCl. Furthermore, examination of the sos1-1 mutant seedlings on 50 mM NaCl showed that root curvature was markedly increased in the stressed plants compared with the wild-type control plants although their root elongation rates were similar (Fig. 2, C–F). These results indicate that increased curvature in salt-treated roots is not likely to be a secondary effect of arrested root growth.
To investigate whether amyloplast degradation in columella cells of sos mutants is more susceptible to salt stress than the wild-type plants, we stained amyloplast in sos mutant seedlings. To our surprise, no rapid starch degradation in the columella cells was observed in any of the sos mutant roots at salt concentrations where they showed a strong alteration in gravitropic response (Fig. 4C). Because all of the sos mutants displayed similar responses, only the data for sos1-1 is shown. The salt-induced degradation-synthesis pattern of starch metabolism in Col-0 was not observed in sos mutants within a 72-h period. This observation indicates that sos mutants are likely to be impaired in rapid starch degradation during early stress acclimation conditions and that the SOS pathway also plays an important role in root starch degradation in Arabidopsis. Interestingly, we found that at 75 mM NaCl, starch in sos1 root caps gradually degraded and disappeared and that there was no recovery in starch synthesis with prolonged treatment (Fig. 4C). To determine if this phenomenon is caused by ion toxicity, we investigated the starch degradation of wild type, sos1-1, sos2-1, and sos3-1. As shown in Figure 4, B and C, the sos mutants exhibited similar trends and dynamic changes in degradation of amyloplasts as observed in the wild type (Col-0) at extremely high and lethal doses of salt. There was a significant positive correlation between timing/salt dose of this particular response and salt sensitivity of the genotypes. For example, the starch reduction started to be observed at 75 and 300 mM NaCl for sos1 and the wild-type seedlings, respectively, and the NaCl levels for sos2 and sos3 fell between these two concentrations (data not shown). Starch amyloplasts could be completely restored if the plants were transferred from the extreme high salt concentrations back to normal conditions. Under very high salt levels, starch completely degraded and plants eventually died. The result again suggests that degradation of the majority of amyloplasts in columella cells of Arabidopsis roots is a general adaptive response to ion disequilibrium.
It has been demonstrated that the Arabidopsis auxin efflux carrier PIN2, which is distributed asymmetrically within the cells, plays an important role in regulating basipetal auxin transport and root gravitropic response of the root elongation zone (Ottenschlager et al., 2003
We then tested the PIN2 gene expression in sos mutant background. Interestingly, we found that the salt-induced PIN2 expression pattern was blocked in sos1-1 mutant roots (Fig. 6B). The results further demonstrated that the SOS pathway might modulate root response to salt by regulating PIN2 abundance and the subsequent auxin asymmetric distribution.
PIN2 protein level and localization play an important role in redistribution of auxin and the subsequent gravitropic response (Paciorek et al., 2005
Gravitropic response is often overwhelming, particularly during root development. To investigate the interplay between gravitropism and salt stress in determining root growth direction, we developed a method for stimulating salt and gravity responses simultaneously (Fig. 2A). Curvature measurements indicated that gravitropic response of the stressed plant roots is greatly reduced upon exposure to salt stimuli in a dose-dependent manner (Figs. 1–4  ). We also established a two-layer assay (Fig. 1B), which may create an ion gradient (Eapen et al., 2003). In this method, a normal nutrient medium was in the top of a growth container and a salt stress medium was in the bottom of the container. At the beginning of the experiment, roots of seedlings on the normal medium grew downward, exhibiting gravitropism, but then curved and grew upward toward the lower level of salt. Therefore, we discovered that Arabidopsis roots are hypersensitive to an ion gradient and exhibit reduced gravitropic response to the elevated levels of salt in the bottom layer and curved away from the salt stimuli. The questions of whether or not this directed growth in response to salinity represents a tropism specific to salinity (referred to as halotropism), the role in regulating orientation of the root growth, and the molecular mechanism underlying the halotropism, remain to be investigated.
Our results further show that the negative gravitropism of Arabidopsis roots under salt stress is caused by ion disequilibrium. This conclusion is based on the findings that salt-induced agravitropic response is more pronounced in Arabidopsis sos mutants (Fig. 4). It has been shown that SOS1, SOS2, and SOS3 are essential for Na+ and K+ homeostasis and that sos mutations render plants more sensitive to high Na+ and low K+ in the growth environment (Shi et al., 2000
Analysis of curvature of roots of the wild-type seedlings under salt stress showed that root bending started to be observed approximately 8 h after treatment (Fig. 2, C–F), indicating that gravisensitivity was delayed by salt. Changes in amyloplasts in culumella cells also are delayed to the same extent, indicating a strong correlation between the effects of NaCl on both amyloplast degradation and gravisensing (Fig. 4, A and B). This is consistent with the proposed role of columella cell amyloplasts in gravisensing (Takahashi et al., 2003
After perception of signals, PIN2-mediated asymmetric distribution of auxin is known to contribute to root bending during tropistic responses, such as gravitropism. These effects are potentially modulated through regulation of the expression of PIN2 at both transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels (Paciorek et al., 2005 Our results show that salt not only inhibits root elongation but also greatly affects root growth direction (Fig. 2, C–F). The fact that in the wild-type seedlings, the stressed roots showed about an 8-h delay in both root elongation and curving indicates that root elongation and curving may be related. However, the curvatures were much greater in the stressed roots than that of the untreated controls when their root lengths were similar, suggesting that root curving and root growth might not be closely linked. Examination of curvature and root lengths of sos1-1 mutant supports this hypothesis. The significant difference in root curvatures between the wild-type and sos1-1 mutant roots under salt stress when they had similar root elongation rates indicates that the two processes are independent. Both processes are likely regulated by different branches downstream of the SOS signaling pathway under salt stress.
Our data indicates that degradation of amyloplasts in the columella cells may not play a key role in the alteration of gravisensing, but two types of response in amyloplast metabolism were observed in response to the severity of salt stress. Exposure to moderate salt stress (<200 mM NaCl) resulted in immediate degradation of amyloplasts in Arabidopsis (Fig. 4A). The amyloplast level was markedly reduced within 30 min, and minimum amyloplast content was seen after 8 h of salt treatment. The starch grains started to reform during prolonged treatment of moderate salt stress (>24 h), though the levels of restoration varied depending on the severity of stress. However, starch in columella cells completely degraded within 8 h, and no recovery was observed in response to high salinity ( The regulatory mechanism of starch metabolism in root columella cells in the salt-stressed plants is currently not clear. Our results demonstrate that the SOS signaling pathway regulates rapid starch digestion induced by salt, because immediate degradation of amyloplasts in columella cells was not observed in sos mutant root tips under salt stress (Fig. 4D). Together, the observations suggest that the SOS pathway plays an important role in early adaptation to salt stress by regulating rapid starch degradation in columella cells of root tips. These findings are the first, to our knowledge, to show that columella cells are highly susceptible to high ionic strength that causes immediate degradation of amyloplasts.
Plant Materials and Growth Conditions
Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) ecotype Col-0 homozygous lines expressing PIN2::PIN2:GFP (Xu and Scheres, 2005
For petri dish culture, 5-d-old Arabidopsis seedlings were placed on the agar plates containing media supplemented with various concentrations of NaCl or mannitol. The seedling roots were positioned vertically and the initial sites of root tips were marked. The gravitropic response of primary roots in salt stress media was stimulated by reorienting the petri dishes by 90°. Pictures of seedlings were digitized using a scanner (Epson Perfection 1670, SEIKO Epson) at the specified time intervals after gravistimulation. Growth length and curvature of roots were measured using ImageJ software version 1.38 (http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/download.html). Root curvature was measured as the angle of deviation from the initial straight line of the seedling root as shown in Figure 2A. Roots of sos1-1, sos2-1, and sos3-1 mutants were also subjected to salt stress or osmotic stress using mannitol as the osmo agent. At least 20 seedlings of three independent lines were used in the experiments. Statistical differences were determined using Student's two-tailed t test.
Five-day-old Arabidopsis seedling with similar root lengths were selected and transferred to MS medium supplemented with NaCl gradients for 0.5- to 72-h time gradient treatments. Observation and measurement of the amyloplasts in the columella cells of the root cap were made according to the method described by Takahashi et al. (2003)
Reverse transcription-PCR analyses were performed to study the transcription of PIN2 gene in Arabidopsis wild-type Col-0 and sos1-1 mutant seedlings without or with NaCl treatment for 2, 4, 8, and 24 h. Total RNA was extracted from plant root samples using the Trizol reagent (Invitrogen). Two micrograms of DNAse-treated (RQ1 DNAse; Promega) total RNA was used as a template for first-strand cDNA synthesis with Superscript II (Invitrogen) and an oligo(dT) primer. The ACTIN2 (locus no. At3g18780) gene was used as a positive internal control with primers 5'-CCTTCGTCTTGATCTTGCGG-3' and 5'-AGCGATGGCTGGAACAGAAC-3'. The following gene-specific primers were used to detect PIN2 transcript: 5'-AAGTCACGTACATGCATGTG-3' and 5'-AGATGCCAACGATAATGAGTG-3'. Ten-microliter reactions were set up for each sample and amplified through 25 cycles. Eight microliters of the product was run on an agarose gel and the results were documented.
For visualization of GFP, 5-d-old transgenic seedlings expressing PIN2::PIN2:GFP were transferred to MS or 150 mM NaCl medium. After 2, 4, 8, 24, and 48 h treatment with gravistimulation and salt as described earlier, the excised roots were mounted immediately and examined with a Zeiss LSM 510 Confocal laser scanning microscope (Carl Zeiss MicroImaging) with a 488-nm excitation line and a 530-nm emission filter. All images were taken under same conditions. Integrated optical density and area of root tip (450 µm in length as shown in Fig. 6C) were measured using ImageJ software. The mean fluorescence intensity was calculated as integrated optical density/area.
We thank Hongtao Ji, Yiliang Xu, and Yunqiao Shu for their technique assistance for measurement of amyloplasts. We also thank the Arabidopsis Resource Center at Ohio State University for providing the Col-0 seeds used in this study, Dr. Jiankang Zhu, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, for the homozygous sos mutant lines, and Dr. Ben Scheres, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, for kindly providing us seeds expressing PIN2::PIN2:GFP. Finally, we thank Dr. Ray Bressan, Purdue University, for his critical reading of the manuscript. Received September 19, 2007; accepted November 9, 2007; published November 16, 2007.
1 This work was supported by the One Hundred Talent Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 30570143). 
2 These authors contributed equally to the article. The author responsible for distribution of materials integral to the findings presented in this article in accordance with the policy described in the Instructions for Authors (www.plantphysiol.org) is: Xia Li (xli{at}genetics.ac.cn).
[C] Some figures in this article are displayed in color online but in black and white in the print edition. www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.107.109413 * Corresponding author; e-mail xli{at}genetics.ac.cn.
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250 mM NaCl; 
