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Article

Arabidopsis Phototropins Participate in the Regulation of Dark-Induced Leaf Senescence

by
Aleksandra Eckstein
1,2,
Joanna Grzyb
3,
Paweł Hermanowicz
4,
Piotr Zgłobicki
1,
Justyna Łabuz
4,
Wojciech Strzałka
1,
Dariusz Dziga
5 and
Agnieszka Katarzyna Banaś
1,*
1
Department of Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Krakow, Poland
2
Department of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdansk, Poland
3
Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wroclaw, Fryderyka Joliot-Curie 14a, 50-383 Wroclaw, Poland
4
Laboratory of Photobiology, The Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7A, 30-387 Krakow, Poland
5
Laboratory of Metabolomics, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Krakow, Poland
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22(4), 1836; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22041836
Submission received: 22 January 2021 / Revised: 9 February 2021 / Accepted: 9 February 2021 / Published: 12 February 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Mechanisms of Leaf Senescence)
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Abstract

Senescence is the final stage of plant development, affecting individual organs or the whole organism, and it can be induced by several environmental factors, including shading or darkness. Although inevitable, senescence is a complex and tightly regulated process, ensuring optimal remobilization of nutrients and cellular components from senescing organs. Photoreceptors such as phytochromes and cryptochromes are known to participate in the process of senescence, but the involvement of phototropins has not been studied to date. We investigated the role of these blue light photoreceptors in the senescence of individually darkened Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. We compared several physiological and molecular senescence markers in darkened leaves of wild-type plants and phototropin mutants (phot1, phot2, and phot1phot2). In general, all the symptoms of senescence (lower photochemical activity of photosystem II, photosynthetic pigment degradation, down-regulation of photosynthetic genes, and up-regulation of senescence-associated genes) were less pronounced in phot1phot2, as compared to the wild type, and some also in one of the single mutants, indicating delayed senescence. This points to different mechanisms of phototropin operation in the regulation of senescence-associated processes, either with both photoreceptors acting redundantly, or only one of them, phot1, playing a dominant role.
Keywords: Arabidopsis thaliana; darkness; photosynthesis; photosynthetic pigments; phototropin; senescence Arabidopsis thaliana; darkness; photosynthesis; photosynthetic pigments; phototropin; senescence

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Eckstein, A.; Grzyb, J.; Hermanowicz, P.; Zgłobicki, P.; Łabuz, J.; Strzałka, W.; Dziga, D.; Banaś, A.K. Arabidopsis Phototropins Participate in the Regulation of Dark-Induced Leaf Senescence. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22, 1836. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22041836

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Eckstein A, Grzyb J, Hermanowicz P, Zgłobicki P, Łabuz J, Strzałka W, Dziga D, Banaś AK. Arabidopsis Phototropins Participate in the Regulation of Dark-Induced Leaf Senescence. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2021; 22(4):1836. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22041836

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Eckstein, Aleksandra, Joanna Grzyb, Paweł Hermanowicz, Piotr Zgłobicki, Justyna Łabuz, Wojciech Strzałka, Dariusz Dziga, and Agnieszka Katarzyna Banaś. 2021. "Arabidopsis Phototropins Participate in the Regulation of Dark-Induced Leaf Senescence" International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22, no. 4: 1836. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22041836

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Eckstein, A., Grzyb, J., Hermanowicz, P., Zgłobicki, P., Łabuz, J., Strzałka, W., Dziga, D., & Banaś, A. K. (2021). Arabidopsis Phototropins Participate in the Regulation of Dark-Induced Leaf Senescence. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(4), 1836. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22041836

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