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Srikanta Dani, K.G.* ; Pollastri, S.* ; Pinosio, S.* ; Reichelt, M.* ; Sharkey, T.D.* ; Schnitzler, J.-P. ; Loreto, F.*

Isoprene enhances leaf cytokinin metabolism and induces early senescence.

New Phytol. 234, 961-974 (2022)
Postprint DOI PMC
Open Access Green
●Isoprene, a major biogenic volatile hydrocarbon of climate-relevance, indisputably mitigates abiotic stresses in emitting plants. However functional relevance of constitutive isoprene emission in unstressed plants remains contested. Isoprene and cytokinins (CKs) are synthesised from a common substrate and pathway in chloroplasts. It was postulated that isoprene emission may affect CK-metabolism. ●Using transgenic isoprene-emitting (IE) Arabidopsis and isoprene non-emitting (NE) RNAi grey poplars (paired with respective NE and IE genotypes), the life of individual IE and NE leaves from emergence to abscission was followed under stress-free conditions. We monitored plant growth rate, above-ground developmental phenotype, modelled leaf photosynthetic energy status, quantified the abundance of leaf CKs, analyzed Arabidopsis and poplar leaf transcriptomes by RNA-sequencing in presence and absence of isoprene during leaf senescence. ●Isoprene emission by unstressed leaves enhanced the abundance of CKs (isopentenyl adenine and its precursor) by >200%, significantly upregulated genes coding for CK-synthesis, CK-signaling and CK-degradation, hastened plant development, increased chloroplast metabolic rate, altered photosynthetic energy status, induced early leaf senescence in both Arabidopsis and poplar. IE leaves senesced sooner even in decapitated poplars where source-sink relationships and hormone homeostasis were perturbed. ●Constitutive isoprene emission significantly accelerates CK-led leaf and organismal development and induces early senescence independent of growth constraints. Isoprene emission provides an early-riser evolutionary advantage and shortens lifecycle duration to assist rapid diversification in unstressed emitters.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
Corresponding Author
Keywords Biogenic Volatiles ; Cytokinins ; Hormones ; Isoprene ; Leaf Senescence ; Signalling ; Transcriptomics ; Unstressed Plants; Arabidopsis-thaliana; Abscisic-acid; Emission Rate; Autumn; Growth; Phenology; Leaves; Aspen; Gene; Overexpression
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0028-646X
e-ISSN 1469-8137
Journal New Phytologist
Quellenangaben Volume: 234, Issue: 3, Pages: 961-974 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Wiley
Publishing Place 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, Nj Usa
Non-patent literature Publications
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Grants CNR, Italy
EU Horizon2020 programme via the Marie Curie fellowship