title: In vivo role of nitric oxide in plant response to abiotic and biotic stress.
abstract: Over the past few years, nitric oxide (NO) has emerged as an important regulator in many physiological events, especially in response to abiotic and biotic stress. However, the roles of NO were mostly derived from pharmacological studies or the mutants impaired NO synthesis unspecifically. In our recent study, we highlighted a novel strategy by expressing the rat neuronal NO synthase (nNOS) in Arabidopsis to explore the in vivo role of NO. Our results suggested that plants were able to perform well in the constitutive presence of nNOS, and provided a new class of plant experimental system with specific in vivo NO release. Furthermore, our findings also confirmed that the in vivo NO is essential for most of environmental abiotic stresses and disease resistance against pathogen infection. Proper level of NO may be necessary and beneficial, not only in plant response to the environmental abiotic stress, but also to biotic stress.
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of Ministry of Education for Plant Developmental Biology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
authors.forename: Hai-Tao
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Rong-Jun
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Zheng-Wei
authors.initials: ZW
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Ying-Tang
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D055864:Droughts; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant / Q000187:drug effects; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000378:metabolism*; D052248:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type I / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D009569:Nitric Oxide; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D052248:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type I