Use of Non-Invasive Ion-Selective Microelectrode Techniques for the Study of Plant Development
Use of Non-Invasive Ion-Selective Microelectrode Techniques for the Study of Plant Development
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10.1007/978-3-540-37843-3_5
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2006
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J. Kunkel;S. Cordeiro;Yu Xu;A. Shipley;J. Feijó
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J. Kunkel;S. Cordeiro;Yu Xu;A. Shipley;J. Feijó
3 Applicable Electronics Inc., Forestdale, MA 02644, USA upon ion regulation. Intracellular pressure in plant cells is achieved and maintained by the intracellular accumulation of ions and solutes, and their partition and sequestration in different osmotic biochemical forms in the vacuole (eg formation of salts or polymers). The turgor pressure thus created is required for cell expansion, elongation, gas exchange, transport of ions and solutes, etc.Pivotal in the regulation is also the activity of the vacuolar proton ATPases (V-ATPases), much different from their plasma membrane counterparts both in structure and mechanism. Vacuolar pyrophosphatases (PPases) are a third active transport party in the system. The coordinated action of these three pump systems maintains the cytosol at a fairly constant and neutral pH, while keeping both vacuole and external apoplast acidic. These pumps are the active source of energy for a number of channels and transporters (eg Sanders and Bethke 2000; Taiz and Zeiger 2002; Blatt 2004), many now well characterized as expressed in a number of tissues, evidenced by transcriptomics (eg Pina et al. 2005). The particular ionic environment created by these conditions is cause and consequence of the ion fluxes across the cell’s membranes, requiring tight regulatory mechanisms that keep calcium concentration low, potassium high and a pH neutral, among other homeostatic regulations (reviewed by Feijó et al. 1995; Holdaway-Clarke and Hepler 2003). The study of plant ion dynamics is therefore of the utmost importance, and several laboratories have taken advantage of non-invasive microelectrode techniques, in particular scanning ion-selective probes, to approach it.