Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Microtomography Profiling of Malus xiaojinensis Provides Insights into Mechanisms of Divalent Metals Transport Subjected to Iron Deficiency
Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Microtomography Profiling of Malus xiaojinensis Provides Insights into Mechanisms of Divalent Metals Transport Subjected to Iron Deficiency
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10.21273/hortsci.50.6.801
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2015-06
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1.9
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Meiling Zhang;Ming Chen;Zhen Wang;Ting Wu;Yi Wang;Xinzhong Zhang;Zhenhai Han
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作者:
Meiling Zhang;Ming Chen;Zhen Wang;Ting Wu;Yi Wang;Xinzhong Zhang;Zhenhai Han
Grafting has been widely used in orchard management because the rootstock can make the tree more tolerant to environmental stresses. Iron deficiency is one of the major limiting environmental factor in apple production worldwide. Systematic research has been made about iron-deficiency adaptive responses in the level of organs, cells, and subcells, whereas the interactions between Fe and other divalent cations in tissue level are little known. Synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence (SR-mXRF) was used to map the location of selected elements Fe, Zn, Mn, Ni, and Co in the longitudinal and latitudinal root samples of Malus xiaojinensis. Iron deficiency induced a significant increase in the relative contents of five micronutrients in epidermis and cortex. The ratio of element contents of roots under Fe-deficient condition and Fe-sufficient condition at same position increased obviously in the section of 1000to 2000-mm distance from the root tip in xylem. Expression analysis of iron absorptionand transport-related genes in roots showed thatMdNramp3 andMxCS1 increased significantly. These results indicated that iron deficiency promoted the long-distance transport of micronutrients in xylem, and MdNramp3 and MxCS1 might play an important role in this process. Importantly, this study directly provides visual divalent metals distribution in tissue level for an improved understanding of metal absorption process in apple rootstock. As one of the important micronutrient, iron participates in many important physiological and biochemical processes. Although iron is abundant in the environment, plants often suffer from iron deficiency because of the alkaline and calcareous soils (Guerinot and Yi, 1994). In the long-term evolution process, plants have evolved into tight mechanisms such as reduction-based strategy I and chelation-based strategy II for iron uptake, transport, utilization, or storage (Marschner et al., 1986). In the process of Fe absorption, intracellular or intercellular and long-distance transport, many genes are involved including the root epidermal cell membrane transporters: iron-related transporter 1 (IRT1) and natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1 (Nramp1) (Curie et al., 2000; Korshunova et al., 1999), vacuolar membrane transporter (Nramp3, Nramp4) and vacuolar iron transporter 1 (Kim et al., 2006; Lanquar et al., 2005), ferric reductase defective 3 (FRD3), citrate synthase 1 (CS1), nicotianamine synthase 1 (NAS1), and yellow stripe1-like (YSL) (Kobayashi and Nishizawa, 2012). Among these genes, the ZIP (ZRT, IRT-like proteins) metal transporter family and NRAMP family catch our attention all the time. The absorption of metal elements in plants is a complicated process; they often use the same transport system for absorption, transportation, or storage (Rogers et al., 2000). Research suggests that there is a competition between Zn and Fe absorption in Arabidopsis thaliana (Fukao et al., 2011). Mn deficiency can increase the transport of Fe efficiently (Yang et al., 2008). Ni accumulation may act as an iron-deficiency signal and induce the Fe-deficient response to upregulate Fe absorption genes expression (Nishida et al., 2012). In addition, all of the previous studies were performed with the interaction between Fe and other divalent metals. The mechanism of divalent metal ions absorption under iron deficiency in woody plants is little known. Malus xiaojinensis is a native apple rootstock in China and has been characterized by its high efficiency for iron uptake (Han et al., 1998; Wu et al., 2012; Zha et al., 2014). In this study, we detected the spatial distribution of selected divalent metals in the root of Malus xiaojinensis, which belongs to the strategy I plant by using SR-mXRF as well as the expression of iron absorptionand transport-related genes in roots under irondeficiency treatment, which will help to investigate the tissue-specific distribution of divalent metals when plants are subjected to iron deficiency. Materials and Methods Plant cultivation and sample preparation. The seedlings of Malus xiaojinensis were propagated on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium with 0.5 mg/L Indole-3-Butytric acid (IBA) and 0.5 mg/L 6-Benzylaminopurine for one month and transferred to one-halfstrength modified MS medium with 0.5 mg/L IBA for rooting for one month and a half. The rooted seedlings were moved to onehalf-strength modified Hoagland nutrient solution for 1 week and switched to Hoagland Table 1. Primer sequences for the quantification of transcripts by real-time polymerase chain reaction. Gene Primer sequences MdIRT1 Fwd 5# TTGACAAGGGAGAAAACGGAGAC 3# Rev 5# AACAACTGAATGGACAATGATACCC 3# MdCS1 Fwd 5# GTTCTCGTCTCGGGCAACTGTC 3# Rev 5# TTCCTCTCATTCCACCAATCACC 3# MdFRD3 Fwd 5# GTGGAAGATGCCTGTTGGTGTT 3# Rev 5# CAATAGATACTCCTGCTGCCGC 3# MdNAS1 Fwd 5# CGATGTTTCCAAGTTATGCCAA 3# Rev 5# TTCTCCAAAAGTCCTTCTGCCT 3# MdNRAMP1 Fwd 5# CCGAAGTTATTGGCACAGCGTT 3# Rev 5# TTCACATAACCCATTTCCCCGA 3# MdNRAMP3 Fwd 5# GACGACGACTGCCAAACGCCG 3# Rev 5# CCACAGCACCATCCTCGCCCA 3# MdNRAMP4 Fwd 5# CGGCCCTAGTGATGGTAATC 3# Rev 5# GCTACATACCCGGCAGTAAA 3# MdYSL5 Fwd 5# GTCCATGTTTGTGAGCCAAATC 3# Rev 5#GGATACGCACTTCCAGGTATTC3# b-Actin Fwd 5# TGGTGAGGCTCTATTCCAAC 3# Rev 5# TGGCATATACTCTGGAGGCT 3# Received for publication 13 Feb. 2015. Accepted for publication 16 Apr. 2015. We acknowledge financial supports which were provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31272139 and No. 31401840), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 6154028). We extend gratitude to 4W1B end station of Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where the m-XRF beam time was granted and experiment of SR-mXRFproceeded. The staffmembers of 4W1Bare acknowledged for their support in measurements and data reduction. These authors contributed equally to this work. To whom reprint requests should be addressed; e-mail rschan@cau.edu.cn. HORTSCIENCE VOL. 50(6) JUNE 2015 801 Fig. 1. Elemental maps of latitudinal sections of roots of Malus xiaojinens, using the SR-mXRF technique. The top pictures are the images of longitudinal sections of root samples observed by microscope. The SR-mXRF signals for map were collected at 50-mm steps. The areas mapped for +Fe and –Fe were 800 mm · 800 mm and 650 mm · 650 mm, respectively. The samples were treated under +Fe condition (40 mM FeNaEDTA), or –Fe condition (0 mM FeNaEDTA) for 3 d. Scale bars = 100 mm. The color of the bars from blue to red means the iron content from low to high. SR-mXRF = Synchrotron radiation