Sulfur deficiency stress induces a number of adaptive responses which must be coordinated. Phytohormone cytokinin has been previously shown to regulate sulfur aquisition and utilizati-on, however, the cytokinin-regulation of sulfur nutrition remains elusive. In this diploma the-sis, it was reported that cytokinin induces a sulfur-deficiency-like gene expression which is accompanied by a decrease in pool of the key sulfur-containing compound glutathione. Further, it was found that the sulfur deficiency responses involve altered cytokinin status to coordinate developmental and/or metabolic adaptations. Arabidopsis plants deficient in cytokinin signaling showed disrupted root elongation in response to sulfur starvation and, unexpectedly, the root elongation in response to sulfur starvation was further stimulated by a low cytokinin concentration. Further, the role of cytokinin in sulfur nutrition was indicated in cytokinin signaling-deficient plants which accumulated more glutathione under normal nu-tritive conditions in comparison to wild-type, and vice versa, the decrease of glutathione pool was exaggerated during sulfur starvation. Altogether, results of this diploma thesis suggest that cytokinins participate in nutritional sulfur homeostasis control.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:362596 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Štuříková, Helena |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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