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Published on November 16, 2007; 10.1104/pp.107.109413

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Received September 19, 2007
Accepted November 9, 2007

Salt modulates gravity signaling pathway to regulate growth direction of primary roots in Arabidopsis thaliana

Feifei Sun , Wensheng Zhang , Haizhou Hu , Bao Li , Youning Wang , Yankun Zhao , Kexue Li , Mengyu Liu , and Xia Li *

The State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell & Chromosome Engineering, Center of Agricultural Resources, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 286 Huaizhong Road, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050021, China; Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P.R. China

* Corresponding author; email: xli{at}genetics.ac.cn.

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 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 PIN2 mRNA abundance and expression and localization of the protein. Furthermore, responsiveness to gravity of sos (salt overly sensitive) mutants is substantially reduced, indicating that salt-induced altered gravitropism of root growth is mediated by ion disequilibrium. Mutation of SOS genes also lead 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 mRNA 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.




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