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Light sensitivity of Haberlea rhodopensis shade adapted phenotype under drought stress

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Haberlea rhodopensis belongs to the group of homoiochlorophyllous desiccation-tolerant plants which preserve their chlorophyll content during dehydration. It is a typical shade adapted plant and it is proved to be very sensitive to light intensity higher than the natural during drought stress. To reveal the reasons of their light sensitivity, we compared the damages and protective mechanisms of shade plants during desiccation either simulating their natural light conditions (30 μmol photons m−2 s−1, LL) or at a moderately higher light intensity (100 μmol photons m−2 s−1, ML). In the desiccated stage, no damage could be discovered in terms of thylakoid membrane quantity or integrity either at LL or ML. Nevertheless, the altered structure and localization of chloroplasts did not restore in plants desiccated and rehydrated at ML, where no starch could be re-synthesized, but a number of plastoglobuli appeared. The PSII activity and the amount of β-carotene and lutein decreased more strongly in ML leaves in agreement with their higher MDA production. Lack of recovery of ML plants may be connected with the very high number of damaged PSII reaction centres caused by the loss of the subtle balance between ROS production and scavenging. In addition, because of the impaired starch re-synthesis, there is no sink for the water-replacing sugars and water cannot be taken up which proved to be lethal to ML plants.

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Acknowledgements

Á. Solti, É. Sárvári, Á. Keresztes, and K. Georgieva kindly acknowledge the travel exchange agreement of the Bulgarian and Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Á. Solti was also supported by the Bolyai János Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (BO/00207/15/4).

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  1. Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl. 21, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Katya Georgieva

  2. Department of Plant Physiology and Molecular Plant Biology,Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány P. sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary

    Ádam Solti & Éva Sárvári

  3. Department of Botany, Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Debrecen, P.O. Box: 14, Debrecen, 4010, Hungary

    Ilona Mészáros

  4. Department of Plant Anatomy, Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány P. sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary

    Áron Keresztes

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Georgieva, K., Solti, Á., Mészáros, I. et al. Light sensitivity of Haberlea rhodopensis shade adapted phenotype under drought stress. Acta Physiol Plant 39, 164 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-017-2457-y

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