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Ferredoxin-Thioredoxin System Plays a Key Role in Plant Response to Oxidative Stress

Nancy A. Eckardt, News and Reviews Editor

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Ferredoxin (Fd) plays a central role in the physiology of the plant cell, distributing the reducing equivalents generated during photosynthetic electron transport to the electron-consuming reactions of the chloroplast. Fd can also function to eliminate excess reducing power and prevent uncontrolled overreduced states that occur in the stroma under physiological and stress conditions. However, Fd has been found to decrease in plants under a number of environmental stress conditions. In cyanobacteria, the decline in Fd under stress conditions is offset by induction of flavodoxins (Flds), which are restricted to prokaryotes and some eukaryotic algae. Tognetti et al. (pages 2035–2050) show that purified cyanobacterial Fld is able to mediate plant Fd-dependent reactions in vitro, including NADP+ and thioredoxin reduction. The authors further show that the expression of cyanobacterial Fld in tobacco compensated for the decline in Fd under adverse environmental conditions and resulted in transgenic lines exhibiting increased tolerance to multiple sources of oxidative stress, including redox-cycling herbicides, extreme temperatures, high irradiation, water deficit, and UV radiation. The data point to the ferredoxin-thioredoxin reductase system as a key element in plant tolerance to oxidative stress.


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  		Wild-type plants and transformants expressing plastidic Fld (pfld5-8) exposed to methyl viologen, a severe oxidative stress–inducing herbicide.

 

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