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Handa S, Bressan RA, Handa AK, et al. Solutes contributing to osmotic adjustment in cultured plant cells adapted to water stress. Plant Physiol. 1983;73(3):834-43doi: 10.1104/pp.73.3.834.
Handa, S., Bressan, R. A., Handa, A. K., Carpita, N. C., & Hasegawa, P. M. (1983). Solutes contributing to osmotic adjustment in cultured plant cells adapted to water stress. Plant physiology, 73(3), 834-43. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.73.3.834
Handa, S, et al. "Solutes contributing to osmotic adjustment in cultured plant cells adapted to water stress." Plant physiology vol. 73,3 (1983): 834-43. doi: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.73.3.834
Handa S, Bressan RA, Handa AK, Carpita NC, Hasegawa PM. Solutes contributing to osmotic adjustment in cultured plant cells adapted to water stress. Plant Physiol. 1983 Nov;73(3):834-43. doi: 10.1104/pp.73.3.834. PMID: 16663309; PMCID: PMC1066557.
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Plant Physiol. 1983 Nov;73(3):834-43. doi: 10.1104/pp.73.3.834.

Solutes contributing to osmotic adjustment in cultured plant cells adapted to water stress.

Plant physiology

S Handa, R A Bressan, A K Handa, N C Carpita, P M Hasegawa

Affiliations

  1. Department of Horticulture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907.

PMID: 16663309 PMCID: PMC1066557 DOI: 10.1104/pp.73.3.834

Abstract

Osmotic adjustment was studied in cultured cells of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill cv VFNT-Cherry) adapted to different levels of external water potential ranging from -4 bar to -28 bar. The intracellular concentrations of reducing sugars, total free amino acids, proline, malate, citrate, quaternary ammonium compounds, K(+), NO(3) (-), Na(+), and Cl(-) increased with decreasing external water potential. At any given level of adaptation, the maximum contribution to osmotic potential was from reducing sugars followed by potassium ions. The sucrose levels in the cells were 3- to 8-fold lower than reducing sugar levels and did not increase beyond those observed in cells adapted to -16 bar water potential. Concentrations of total free amino acids were 4- to 5-fold higher in adapted cells. Soluble protein levels declined in the adapted cell lines, but the total reduced nitrogen was not significantly different after adaptation. Uptake of nitrogen (as NH(4) (+) or NO(3) (-)) from the media was similar for adapted and unadapted cells. Although the level of quaternary ammonium compounds was higher in the nonadapted cells than that of free proline, free proline increased as much as 500-fold compared to only a 2- to 3-fold increase observed for quaternary ammonium compounds. Although osmotic adjustment after adaptation was substantial (up to -36 bar), fresh weight (volume increase) was restricted by as much as 50% in the adapted cells. Altered metabolite partitioning was evidenced by an increase in the soluble sugars and soluble nitrogen in adapted cells which occurred at the expense of incorporation of sugar into cell walls and nitrogen into protein. Data indicate that the relative importance of a given solute to osmotic adjustment may change depending on the level of adaptation.

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