Calcium and Calmodulin Involve in Mycorrhizal and Root Development in Trifoliate Orange Colonized by Rhizophagus intraradices

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  • Qiang-Sheng WU Yangtze University, College of Horticulture and Gardening/Institute of Root Biology, Jingzhou, Hubei 434025 (CN)
  • Qiu-Dan NI Yangtze University, College of Horticulture and Gardening/Institute of Root Biology, Jingzhou, Hubei 434025 (CN)
  • Yan-Cong QUE Yangtze University, College of Horticulture and Gardening/Institute of Root Biology, Jingzhou, Hubei 434025 (CN)
  • Wei HUANG Yangtze University, College of Horticulture and Gardening/Institute of Root Biology, Jingzhou, Hubei 434025 (CN)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15835/nbha4229635

Keywords:

arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, ethylene glycol tetraacetic acid, roots, trifluoperazine

Abstract

A pot experiment was made to study effects of ethylene glycol tetraacetic acid (EGTA, an inhibitor of Ca2+) and trifluoperazine (TFP, an inhibitor of calmodulin (CaM) on mycorrhizal colonization, growth performance, and chlorophyll, sucrose and glucose concentrations of four-month-old trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata) seedlings under mycorrhization with Rhizophagus intraradices. Exogenous EGTA and TFP notably inhibited root mycorrhizal colonization, and the addition of EGTA also decreased soil hyphal length. In general, EGTA treatment decreased but TFP increased easily extractable glomalin-related soil protein (EE-GRSP) and total GRSP (T-GRSP) concentrations. In addition, EGTA and TFP applications generally significantly inhibited growth performance (height, stem diameter, leaf number, and shoot and root biomass), root traits (total length, surface area, volume, and number of 1st, 2nd and 3rd order lateral root), and chlorophyll a,b and a+b concentrations, the mycorrhizal inoculation generally reversed the negative effects and markedly increased these variables, irrespective of whether the seedlings were applied by inhibitors or not. EGTA and TFP treatments generally inhibited sucrose and glucose levels of leaf and root, except that TFP application notably increased root glucose in AM and non-AM seedlings. AMF inoculation resulted in carbohydrate modification: decrease in leaf sucrose, increase in root sucrose and leaf glucose, as well increase in root glucose under no-inhibitor and EGTA conditions and decrease in root glucose under TFP. It suggests that Ca2+ and CaM were involved in mycorrhizal and root development in trifoliate orange.

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Published

2014-12-02

How to Cite

WU, Q.-S., NI, Q.-D., QUE, Y.-C., & HUANG, W. (2014). Calcium and Calmodulin Involve in Mycorrhizal and Root Development in Trifoliate Orange Colonized by Rhizophagus intraradices. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 42(2), 380–385. https://doi.org/10.15835/nbha4229635

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DOI: 10.15835/nbha4229635

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