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TY - JOUR
T1 - Local root abscisic acid (ABA) accumulation depends on the spatial distribution of soil moisture in potato
T2 - implications for ABA signalling under heterogeneous soil drying
AU - Puertolas Simon, Jaime
AU - Conesa, Maria R.
AU - Ballester, Carlos
AU - Dodd, Ian C.
PY - 2015/4
Y1 - 2015/4
N2 - Patterns of root abscisic acid (ABA) accumulation ([ABA](root)), root water potential (psi(root)), and root water uptake (RWU), and their impact on xylem sap ABA concentration ([X-ABA]) were measured under vertical partial root-zone drying (VPRD, upper compartment dry, lower compartment wet) and horizontal partial root-zone drying (HPRD, two lateral compartments: one dry, the other wet) of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). When water was withheld from the dry compartment for 0-10 d, RWU and Psi(root) were similarly lower in the dry compartment when soil volumetric water content dropped below 0.22 cm(3) cm(-3) for both spatial distributions of soil moisture. However, [ABA](root) increased in response to decreasing Psi(root) in the dry compartment only for HPRD, resulting in much higher ABA accumulation than in VPRD. The position of the sampled roots (similar to 4 cm closer to the surface in the dry compartment of VPRD than in HPRD) might account for this difference, since older (upper) roots may accumulate less ABA in response to decreased Psi(root) than younger (deeper) roots. This would explain differences in root ABA accumulation patterns under vertical and horizontal soil moisture gradients reported in the literature. In our experiment, these differences in root ABA accumulation did not influence [X-ABA], since the RWU fraction (and thus ABA export to shoots) from the dry compartment dramatically decreased simultaneously with any increase in [ABA](root). Thus, HPRD might better trigger a long-distance ABA signal than VPRD under conditions allowing simultaneous high [ABA](root) and relatively high RWU fraction.
AB - Patterns of root abscisic acid (ABA) accumulation ([ABA](root)), root water potential (psi(root)), and root water uptake (RWU), and their impact on xylem sap ABA concentration ([X-ABA]) were measured under vertical partial root-zone drying (VPRD, upper compartment dry, lower compartment wet) and horizontal partial root-zone drying (HPRD, two lateral compartments: one dry, the other wet) of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). When water was withheld from the dry compartment for 0-10 d, RWU and Psi(root) were similarly lower in the dry compartment when soil volumetric water content dropped below 0.22 cm(3) cm(-3) for both spatial distributions of soil moisture. However, [ABA](root) increased in response to decreasing Psi(root) in the dry compartment only for HPRD, resulting in much higher ABA accumulation than in VPRD. The position of the sampled roots (similar to 4 cm closer to the surface in the dry compartment of VPRD than in HPRD) might account for this difference, since older (upper) roots may accumulate less ABA in response to decreased Psi(root) than younger (deeper) roots. This would explain differences in root ABA accumulation patterns under vertical and horizontal soil moisture gradients reported in the literature. In our experiment, these differences in root ABA accumulation did not influence [X-ABA], since the RWU fraction (and thus ABA export to shoots) from the dry compartment dramatically decreased simultaneously with any increase in [ABA](root). Thus, HPRD might better trigger a long-distance ABA signal than VPRD under conditions allowing simultaneous high [ABA](root) and relatively high RWU fraction.
KW - Partial root-zone drying
KW - root ABA
KW - root-to-shoot signalling
KW - root water potential
KW - root water uptake
KW - stomatal conductance
KW - water-saving irrigation
KW - WATER-USE EFFICIENCY
KW - SOLANUM-TUBEROSUM L.
KW - XYLEM SAP
KW - STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE
KW - DEFICIT IRRIGATION
KW - GAS-EXCHANGE
KW - GROWTH
KW - PLANTS
KW - ZONE
KW - LEAVES
U2 - 10.1093/jxb/eru501
DO - 10.1093/jxb/eru501
M3 - Journal article
VL - 66
SP - 2325
EP - 2334
JO - Journal of Experimental Botany
JF - Journal of Experimental Botany
SN - 0022-0957
IS - 8
ER -