Plant responses to high temperature
Plant responses to high temperature
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10.1002/9780470988503.ch5
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发表时间:
2005-01-01
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Vierling, Elizabeth
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Larkindale, Jane;Mishkind, Michael;Vierling, Elizabeth
Plants experience high temperature in many different ways and adaptation or acclimation to high temperature occurs over different time scales and levels of plant organization. Exposure to high temperature can be chronic or long term, as experienced in hotter habitats, or it can be more acute, as a result of seasonal or daily temperature extremes. It is also clear that different plant tissues and organs, and plants at different growth stages will be damaged in different ways depending on the heat susceptibility of the dominant cellular processes that are active at the time of the stress. Altogether, this means that ‘heat stress’(and therefore,‘heat tolerance’) is not a single phenomenon, but rather a varying set of complex perturbations of organismal homeostasis. At the cellular level, heat affects a wide range of structures and functions. High temperatures alter lipid properties, causing membranes to become more fluid and thereby disrupting membrane processes. All proteins have an optimal temperature window for activity, so increased temperatures alter enzyme activity leading to imbalance in metabolic pathways, and eventually at high temperature proteins denature. Membrane and protein damage leads to the production of active oxygen species (AOS). This may not be effectively controlled through antioxidants at high temperatures, resulting in heat-induced oxidative damage in addition to the direct effects of heating. At the physiological level, this damage translates into reduced efficiency of photosynthesis, impaired translocation of assimilates and loss of carbon gain. These factors in turn combine to cause altered phenology, reproductive failure and accelerated senescence (Hall, 2001). Thus, it is to be expected that many different processes, involving many genes, are involved in plant responses to heat. It is also important to recognize that, in the natural environment, plants are often exposed to heat in conjunction with other stresses. This is especially true of heat and drought stress, which often co-occur. Heat stress may also be accompanied by high irradiance stress. Other environmental stresses also result in similar types of damage as those caused by heat. Therefore, it is expected that the responses of plants to different stresses might overlap, and that exposure to any one stress may affect subsequent reactions to another stress. Signaling and protective pathways from different stresses are therefore likely to intersect, sharing common components.