The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) is a central regulator of protection mechanisms in plants conferring drought and salt tolerance. In the ABA reporter line pAtHB6::LUC, ABA formation induced by osmotic stress results in increased expression of the reporter gene luciferase. In this work, the EMS-mutagenized reporter line pAtHB6::LUC was used to screen for mutants impaired in early stress signal transduction. One of this mutants, hrw2 (hypersensitive to restricted water supply), was cloned and characterized.
The recent discovery of the ABA receptor elucidated the core ABA signalling pathway, where RCAR proteins in the presence of ABA release the PP2C-dependent inhibition of the ABA signalling pathway. In this work was shown that ABA precursors activate ABA signaling because they are converted into active ABA, whereas ABA metabolites showed no in vivo and moderate in vitro activity. The experiments with ABA analogs revealed, that only S forms exhibit an ABA-like activity in vivo, while ABA analog activity in vitro varied.
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The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) is a central regulator of protection mechanisms in plants conferring drought and salt tolerance. In the ABA reporter line pAtHB6::LUC, ABA formation induced by osmotic stress results in increased expression of the reporter gene luciferase. In this work, the EMS-mutagenized reporter line pAtHB6::LUC was used to screen for mutants impaired in early stress signal transduction. One of this mutants, hrw2 (hypersensitive to restricted water supply), was cloned and...
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