Abstract
Sulfate is an important macro nutrient for plant growth. Sulfate starvation negatively influences crop yield and plant performance. Systems analysis at the transcriptome and metabolome level of Arabidopsis thaliana exposed to sulfate deprivation recently provided further evidence that O-acetyl-L-serine (OAS) acts as a signal within plant sulfate deprivation response, but also under conditions when the sulfate status is not disturbed, such as reactive oxygen species (ROS ) accumulation, light to dark shifts or during the diurnal cycle. Here we compare the transcriptomes of roots and whole seedlings exposed to sulfate starvation with that of plants where OAS accumulation was induced by overexpression of a serine acetyltranferase gene (SERAT2;1). The results provide evidence for a sulfate-independent signalling role of OAS and for the modular response of plants to sulfate starvation.
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We thank Sarah J Whitcomb for discussion and help with preparing the manuscript. We thank the Max Planck Society for financial contribution. Additional funding was received for HMH by the DFG grant HO1916/3-2, for FA by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran and for EH by the EU – ITN grant 264296 (acronym: BIONUT).
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Hubberten, HM., Watanabe, M., Bielecka, M., Heyneke, E., Aarabi, F., Hoefgen, R. (2015). More Than a Substrate: The O-Acetylserine Responsive Transcriptome. In: De Kok, L., Hawkesford, M., Rennenberg, H., Saito, K., Schnug, E. (eds) Molecular Physiology and Ecophysiology of Sulfur. Proceedings of the International Plant Sulfur Workshop. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20137-5_14
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