Nitrogen allocation in barley: Relationships between amino acid transport and storage protein synthesis during grain filling

Canadian Journal of Plant Science

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 451-459

  Egle, Komi ^a,b   Beschow, Heidrun ^b   Merbach, Wolfgang ^b  

^a Quebec Metallurgy Center   (Canada)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

15N aminoisobutyric acid; 15N L alanine; Hordein; Hordeum vulgare; Non proteinogenic; Proteinogenic; Sink; Source

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BARLEY; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; PROTEIN; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE;

EID: 84930786511     PISSN: 00084220     EISSN: 19181833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/CJPS2013-324     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Anbessa, Y. and Juskiw, P. 2012. Review: Strategies to increase nitrogen use efficiency of spring barley. Can. J. Plant Sci. 92: 617-625.
2. Balconi, C. E., Rizzi, E., Manzocchi, L., Soave, C. and Motto, M. 1991. Analysis of in vivo and in vitro grown endosperms of high and low protein strains of maize. Plant Sci. 73: 9-18.
3. Bahrani, A., Abad, H. H. S. and Aynehband, A. 2011. Nitrogen remobilization in wheat as influenced by nitrogen application and post-anthesis water deficit during grain filling. Afr. J. Biotechnol. 10: 10581-10594.
4. Buchanan-Wollaston, V. 1994. Isolation of cDNA clones for gens that are expressed during leaf senescence in Brassica napus. Plant Physiol. 105: 839-846.
5. Buchanan-Wollaston, V. 1997. The molecular biology of leaf senescence. J. Exp. Bot. 48: 191-199.
6. Cheikh, N. and Jones, R. J. 1995. Heat stress effects on sink activity of developing maize kernels grown in vitro. Plant Physiol. 95: 59-66.
7. Danny, K. A., Hong, Y-J., Barrett, D. M. and Mitchell, A. E. 2003. Content of freeze-dried and air-dried marionberry, strawberry, and corn grown using conventional, organic, and sustainable agricultural practices. J. Agric. Food Chem. 51: 1237-1241.
8. Egle, K., Beschow, H. and Merbach, W. 2004. Carbon and nitrogen accumulation in different plant organ of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) during ontogenesis. Acta Physiol. Plant. 26: 34.
9. Gallais, A., Coque, M., Quillere, I., Prioul, J. L. and Hirel, B. 2006. Modelling post-silking nitrogen fluxes in maize (Zea mays) using 15N labelling field experiments. New Phytol. 172: 696-707.
10. Giese, H. and Hejgaard, J. 1984. Synthesis of salt-soluble protein in barley. Pusle-labelling study of grain filling in liquid-cultured detached spikes. Planta 161: 172-177.
11. Golombek, S., Rolletschek, H., Wobus, U. and Weber, H. 2001. Control of storage protein accumulation during legume seed development. J. Plant Physiol. 158: 457-464.
12. Haberle, J., Svoboda, P. and Raimanova, I. 2008. The effect of post-anthesis water supply of grain nitrogen concentration and grain nitrogen yield of winter wheat. Plant Soil Environ. 54: 304-314.
13. Hirel, B., Le Gouis, J., Ney, B. and Gallais, A. 2007. The challenge of improving nitrogen use efficiency in crop plants: towards a more central role for genetic variability and quantitative genetics within integrated approaches. J. Exp. Bot. 58: 2369-2387.
14. Hollmann, J., Gregersen, P. L. and Krupinska, K. 2014. Identification of predominant genes involved in regulation and execution of senescence-associated nitrogen remobiliza-tion in flag leaves of field grown barley. J. Exp. Bot. 65: 3963-3973.
15. Jenner, C. F., Ugalde, T. D. and Aspinall, D. 1991. The physiology of starch and protein deposition in the endosperm of wheat. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 18: 211-226.
16. Kirkman, M. A., Shewry, P. R. and Miflin, B. J. 1982. The effects of nitrogen nutrition on the lysine content and protein composition of barley seeds. J. Sci. Food Agric. 33: 15-127.
17. Martre, P., Porter, J. R., Jamieson, P. D. and Triboı, E. 2003. Modelling grain nitrogen accumulation and protein composition to understand the sink/source regulations of nitrogen remobilization for wheat. Plant Physiol. 133: 1959-1967.
18. Masclaux-Daubresse, C, Daniel-Vedele, F., Dechorgnat, J., Chardon, F., Gaufichon, L. and Akira Suzuki, A. 2010. Nitrogen uptake, assimilation and remobilization in plants: challenges for sustainable and productive agriculture. Ann. Bot. 105: 1141-1157.
19. Marschner, H. 1995. Mineral nutrition of higher plants. 2nd ed. Academic Press, London, UK.
20. Miranda, M., Borisjuk, L., Tewes, A., Heim, U., Sauer, N., Wobus, U. and Weber, H. 2001. Amino acid permeases in developing seeds of Viciafaba L.: expression precedes storage protein synthesis and is regulated by amino acid supply. Plant J. 28: 61-71.
21. Okawa, S., Makino, A. and Mae, T. 2003. Effect of irradiance on the partitioning of assimilated carbon during the early phase of grain filling in rice. Ann. Bot. 92: 357-364.
22. Ortiz-Lopez, A., Chang, H. C. and Bush, D. R. 2000. Amino acid transporters in plants. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1465: 275-280.
23. Patrick, J. W. 1997. Phloem unloading: Sieve element unloading and post-sieve element transport. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 48: 191-222.
24. Pruden, G., Powlson, D. S. and Jenkinson, D. S. 1985. The measurement of 15N in soil and plant material. Fert. Res. 6: 205-218.
25. Rolletschek, H., Hosein, F., Miranda, M., Heim, U., Gotz, K. P., Schlereth, A., Borisjuk, L., Saalbach, I., Wobus, U. and Weber, H. 2005. Ectopic expression of an amino acid transporter (VfAAP1) in seeds of Vicia narbonensis and pea increases storage proteins. Plant Physiol. 137: 1236-1249.
26. Rossato, L., Laine, P. and Ourry, A. 2001. Nitrogen storage and remobilization in Brassica napus L. during the growth cycle: nitrogen fluxes within the plant and changes in soluble protein patterns. J. Exp. Bot. 52: 1655-1663.
27. Salon, C, Munier-Jolain, N. G., Duc, G., Voisin, A-S., Grandgirard, D., Larmure, A., Emery, R. J. N. and Ney, B. 2001. Grain legume seed filling in relation to nitrogen acquisition: A review and prospects with particular reference to pea. Agron. 21: 539-552.
28. SAS Institute Inc. 2008. The SAS system. Version 9.2. SAS. Institute, Inc., Cary, NC.
29. Schilling, G., Kerschberger, M., Kummer, K. F. and Peschke, H. 2000. Pflanzenernahrung und Dungung. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart, Germany.
30. Setter, T. L. and Meller, V. H. 1984. Reserve carbohydrate in maize stem. C glucose and C sucrose uptake characteristics. Plant Physiol. 75: 617-622.
31. Sheehy, J. E., Mnzava, M., Cassman, K. G., Mitchell, L. P., Pablico, P., Robles, R. P. and Ferrer, A. 2004. Uptake of nitrogen by rice studied with a N point-placement technique. Plant Soil 259: 259-265.
32. Shewry, P. R. 1992. Barley seed storage protein-structure synthesis, and deposition. Pages 200-207 in K Mengel and D. J. Pilbeam, eds. Nitrogen metabolism of plants. Oxford Science Publications, Oxford, UK.
33. Simpson, R. J. 1986. Translocation and metabolism of nitrogen: whole plant aspects. Pages 71-96 in H. Lambers, J. J. Neeteson, and I. Stulen, eds. Fundamental, ecological and agricultural aspects of nitrogen metabolism in higher plants. Matinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
34. Sinclair, T. R. and Amir, J. 1992. A model to assess nitrogen limitations on the growth and yield of spring wheat. Field Crop Res. 30: 63-78.
35. Staswick, P. E. 1994. Storage proteins of vegetative plant tissues. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 45: 303-322.
36. Takahashi, M., Uematsu, Y., Kashiwaba, K., Yagasaki, K., Hajika, M., Matsunaga, R., Komatsu, K. and Ishimoto, M. 2003. Accumulation of high levels of free amino acids in soybean seeds through integration of mutations conferring seed protein deficiency. Planta 217: 557-586.
37. Tilsner, J., Kassner, N., Struck, C. and Lohaus, G. 2005. Amino acid contents and transport in oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) under different nitrogen conditions. Planta. 221: 328-338.
38. Thomsen, I. K. 1993. Nitrogen uptake in barley after spring incorporation of 15N-labelled Italian ryegrass into sandy soils. Plant Soil 150: 193-201.
39. Triboi, E. and Triboi-Blondel, A. M. 2002. Productivity and grain or seed composition: a new approach to an old problem. Eur. J. Agron. 16: 163-186.
40. Tucker, M. R. 1999. Essential plant nutrients: their presence in North Carolina soils and role in plant nutrition. Agronomic Division. NCDA&CS. [Online] Available: http://www.ncagr. gov/agronomi/pdffiles/essnutr.pdf [2010 Dec. 15].
41. Vonder Fecht-Bartenbach, J., Bogner, M., Dynowski, M. and Ludewig, U. 2010. CLC-b mediated NO3 =H exchange across the tonoplast of Arabidopsis vacuoles. Plant Cell Physiol. 51: 960-968.
42. Wallwork, M. A. B., Logue, S. J., MacLeod, L. C. and Jenner, C. F. 1998. Effects of high temperature during grain filling on starch synthesis in the developing barley grain. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 25: 173-181.
43. Wang, C, den Ende, W. V. and Tillberg, J-E. 2000. Fructan accumulation induced by nitrogen deficiency in barley leaves correlates with the level of sucrose: fructan 6-fructosyltransferase mRNA. Planta 211: 701-707.
44. Wardlaw, I. F. 1990. The control of carbon partitioning in plants. New Phytol. 116: 341-381.
45. Weichert, N., Saalbach, I., Weichert, H., Kohl, S., Erban, A., Kopka, J., Hause, B., Varshney, A., Sreenivasulu, N., Strickert, M., Kumlehn, J., Weschke, W. and Weber, H. 2010. Increasing sucrose uptake capacity of wheat grains stimulates storage protein synthesis. Plant Physiol. 152: 698-710.
46. Williams, L. E. and Miller, A. J. 2001. Transporters responsible for the uptake and partitioning of nitrogenous solutes. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 52: 659-688.
47. Xu, Z. Z., Yu, Z. W. and Wang, D. 2006. Nitrogen translocation in wheat plants under soil water deficit. Plant Soil 280: 291-303.
48. Zhang, W. H., Zhou, Y., Dibley, K. E., Tyerman, S. T., Furbank, R. T. and Patrick, J. W. 2007. Nutrient loading of developing seeds. Funct. Plant Biol. 34: 314-331.