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How Can We Interpret the Large Number and Diversity of ABA Transporters?

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Progress in Botany Vol. 82

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Abstract

Abscisic acid (ABA) is generally known as the plant stress hormone. Functioning in a wide range of environmental responses, ABA plays a major role in drought tolerance. In addition to inducing stomatal closure during drought stress, ABA promotes suberization of the exodermis and endodermis, which reduces water loss from the root. Furthermore, ABA increases freezing tolerance and has a complex, but not completely understood, role in plant–pathogen interactions. ABA also functions in plant development; for example, ABA is a central player in maintaining seed dormancy. Whereas the enzymatic steps of ABA biosynthesis have been known for some time, our knowledge of ABA receptors and transporters is quite recent. This is due, at least partially, to redundancy among members of both the ABA receptor and transporter families. Many transporters from different transporter families cooperate to transport ABA. The weak but distinct phenotypes described for the different loss-of-function mutants indicate that each of these transporters plays a specific role and, at least under a given condition or in a specific tissue, they are not completely redundant. However, for each function described so far, delivery of ABA at the target site requires the activity of several different ABA transporters. This strategy may ensure that ABA is transported to the correct target even if one of the transporters is nonfunctional or that plants can transport ABA under a given condition via several routes.

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Abbreviations

ABA:

Abscisic acid

ABA-GE:

ABA glucose ester

ABC:

ATP-binding cassette

AIT:

ABA-importing transporters

AtBG1:

Arabidopsis thaliana β-glucosidase

AWPM-19:

ABA-induced wheat plasma membrane polypeptide-19

Cvi:

Cape Verde islands

DTX/MATE:

Detoxification efflux carriers/multidrug and toxic compound extrusion

GUS:

β-Glucosidase

LATD/NIP:

Lateral root defective/numerous infection threads, polyphenolics

Lr34res:

The resistant Lr34 allele

Lr34sus:

The susceptible Lr34 allele

NBF:

Nucleotide binding fold

nced3 :

Nine-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase 3

NPF:

Nitrate transporter1/peptide transporter family

OE:

Overexpression

ost1 :

Open stomata 1

PM1:

Plasma membrane protein1

PP2C:

Phosphatase 2C

PYR/PYL/RCAR:

Pyrabactin resistance1/PYR1-like/regulatory components of ABA receptor

TMD:

Transmembrane domain

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Acknowledgment

The work on ABA transport done in the authors’ laboratories was supported by the Basic Science Research Program NRF-2018R1A2A1A05018173 (to Y.L.) through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and the Swiss National Foundation. J Kang was supported by Ambizione fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (PZ00P3_168041) and Brain Pool Program through the NRF funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (2019H1D3A2A02102582).

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Kang, J., Lee, Y., Martinoia, E. (2020). How Can We Interpret the Large Number and Diversity of ABA Transporters?. In: Cánovas, F.M., Lüttge, U., Risueño, MC., Pretzsch, H. (eds) Progress in Botany Vol. 82. Progress in Botany, vol 82. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/124_2020_43

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