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Plant Cell, Vol. 10, 571-584, April 1998, Copyright © 1998, American Society of Plant Physiologists
Induction of Kranz Anatomy and C4-like Biochemical Characteristics in a Submerged Amphibious Plant by Abscisic Acid
Osamu Uenoa
a Department of Plant Physiology, National Institute of Agrobiological Resources, Kannondai 2-1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
Correspondence to:
Osamu Ueno, uenoos{at}abr.affrc.go.jp (E-mail), 81-298-38-7408 (fax).
The amphibious leafless sedge Eleocharis vivipara develops C4-like traits as well as Kranz anatomy under terrestrial conditions, but it develops C3-like traits without Kranz anatomy under submerged conditions. When submerged plants are exposed to aerial conditions, they rapidly produce new photosynthetic tissues with C4-like traits. In this study, experiments were performed to determine whether abscisic acid (ABA), a plant stress hormone, could induce the formation of photosynthetic tissues with Kranz anatomy and C4-like biochemical traits under water in the submerged form. When the submerged plants were grown in water containing 5 µM ABA, they developed new photosynthetic tissues with Kranz anatomy, forming well-developed Kranz (bundle sheath) cells that contained many organelles. The ABA-induced tissues accumulated large amounts of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase, and NAD–malic enzyme at the appropriate cellular sites. The tissues had 3.4 to 3.8 times more C4 enzyme activity than did tissues of the untreated submerged plants. Carbon-14 pulse and carbon-12 chase experiments revealed that the ABA-induced tissues fixed higher amounts of carbon-14 into C4 compounds and lower amounts of carbon-14 into C3 compounds as initial products than did the submerged plants and that they exhibited a C4-like pattern of carbon fixation under aqueous conditions of low carbon, indicating enhanced C4 capacity in the tissues. This report provides an example of the hormonal control of the differentiation of the structural and functional traits required for the C4 pathway.
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