Molecular Evolution of Grass Stomata

Chen, Zhonghua; Chen, Guang; Dai, Fei; Wang, Yizhou; Hills, Adrian; Ruan, Yong‐Ling; Zhang, Guoping; Franks, Peter J.; Nevo, Eviatar; Blatt, Michael R.

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2016.09.005

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“…All 63 query Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) guard cell genes and 23 gene families are from Chen et al (2017). Genome sequence data were downloaded from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) and Ensembl Plants (http://plants.…”

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“…Land plants acquired stomata to regulate gas exchange by opening and closing of the stomatal pore (Hetherington and Woodward, 2003;Berry et al, 2010;Chater et al, 2011). While liverworts lack stomata, mosses and most other land plants have a typical stomatal pore surrounded by at least a pair of guard cells (Franks and Farquhar, 2007;Chen et al, 2017).…”

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“…The ecological significance of this change is that seed plants may have a greater capacity than lycophytes and ferns to actively control water loss during drought (McElwain, 2011). However, molecular evidence supporting this shift is still lacking Ruszala et al, 2011;Lind et al, 2015;Chen et al, 2017).…”

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Evolutionary Conservation of ABA Signaling for Stomatal Closure

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Abscisic acid (ABA)-driven stomatal regulation reportedly evolved after the divergence of ferns, during the early evolution of seed plants approximately 360 million years ago. This hypothesis is based on the observation that the stomata of certain fern species are unresponsive to ABA, but exhibit passive hydraulic control. However, ABA-induced stomatal closure was detected in some mosses and lycophytes. Here, we observed that a number of ABA signaling and membrane transporter protein families diversified over the evolutionary history of land plants. The aquatic ferns Azolla filiculoides and Salvinia cucullata have representatives of 23 families of proteins orthologous to those of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and all other land plant species studied. Phylogenetic analysis of the key ABA signaling proteins indicates an evolutionarily conserved stomatal response to ABA. Moreover, comparative transcriptomic analysis has identified a suite of ABAresponsive genes that differentially expressed in a terrestrial fern species, Polystichum proliferum. These genes encode proteins associated with ABA biosynthesis, transport, reception, transcription, signaling, and ion and sugar transport, which fit the general ABA signaling pathway constructed from Arabidopsis and Hordeum vulgare. The retention of these key ABA-responsive genes could have had a profound effect on the adaptation of ferns to dry conditions. Furthermore, stomatal assays have shown the primary evidence for ABA-induced closure of stomata in two terrestrial fern species P. proliferum and Nephrolepis exaltata. In summary, we report, to our knowledge, new molecular and physiological evidence for the presence of active stomatal control in ferns.

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Evolutionary Conservation of ABA Signaling for Stomatal Closure

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“…Given the ever-growing multitude of genomic data from representative species spanning the land plant phylogeny, in silico analyses are becoming an increasingly popular means of discussing physiological evolution (Pabón-Mora et al, 2014;Yue et al, 2014;Chen et al, 2016). Stomatal evolution, however, provides some excellent examples of why gene phylogenies should always be used in combination with experimental studies of stomatal behavior in situ.…”

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Evolution of the Stomatal Regulation of Plant Water Content

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“…These studies hypothesize that, before the evolution of seed plants, stomatal control, particularly in response to water deficit, was largely hydropassive (referred to here as the passive origin model, after Brodribb and McAdam, 2011; also described as the gradualistic model in McAdam and Brodribb, 2012). This hypothesis has been rejected in a number of studies utilizing a variety of methods, including cross-species genetic complementation, bioinformatics, and leaf gasexchange measurements, which together suggest that active stomatal sensitivity to ABA and CO 2 are traits common to all major land plant divisions Ruszala et al, 2011;Lind et al, 2015;Franks and Britton-Harper, 2016;Cai et al, 2017;Chen et al, 2017).…”

Section: Stomata Evolved As Land Plants Diversified But All Plant DImentioning

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