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Exogenously-supplied trehalose protects thylakoid membranes of winter wheat from heat-induced damage

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Biologia Plantarum

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The effects of trehalose pretreatment on thylakoid membranes of winter wheat were investigated under heat stress. Under normal growth conditions, the winter wheat synthesized 502 μg g−1(f.m.) trehalose, which increased to 1250 μg g−1(f.m.) under heat stress and to 1658 μg g−1(f.m.) in trehalose-pretreated seedlings. Under heat stress, proteins in the thylakoid membranes and the photosynthetic capacity were protected by trehalose pretreatment. Moreover, the electrolyte leakage, contents of malondialdehyde, superoxide anion and hydrogen peroxide, and lipoxygenase activity in trehalose-pretreated seedlings were lower than in the non-pretreated plants.

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Abbreviations

DCBQ:

2,6-dichloro-p-benzoquinone

DGDG:

digalactosyl diacylglycerol

IUFA:

unsaturation indexes of fatty acids

LOX:

lipoxygenase

MDA:

malondialdehyde

MGDG:

monogalactosyl diacylglycerol

O2 ·− :

superoxid anion

PC:

phosphatidylcholine

PG:

phosphatidylglycerol

PS 2:

photosystem 2

ROS:

reactive oxygen species

SQDG:

sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol

T6P:

trehalose-6-phosphate

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No.30671259), the Fund for Doctor of Shandong Province (No. 2008BS07007) and the Innovation Fund of Shandong Agricultural University.

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    Y. Luo, F. Li, G. P. Wang, X. H. Yang & W. Wang

  2. East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, P.R. China

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Luo, Y., Li, F., Wang, G.P. et al. Exogenously-supplied trehalose protects thylakoid membranes of winter wheat from heat-induced damage. Biol Plant 54, 495–501 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10535-010-0087-y

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