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Molecular Mechanisms of Selenium Responses and Resistance in Plants

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Selenium in plants

Part of the book series: Plant Ecophysiology ((KLEC,volume 11))

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Selenium (Se) is an essential nutrient for many organisms but is toxic at high levels. A better understanding of plant responses to Se is important to optimize the use of plants in alleviating dietary Se deficiency or for the cleanup of Se-polluted areas. Genetic analysis among accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana showed that several genes involved in sulfur (S) assimilation may be responsible for the differences in Se resistance and accumulation, and resistance to selenite and selenate may be regulated by different genes. Molecular and biochemical studies of non-accumulator plants revealed that defense responses mediated by phytohormones (such as ethylene, jasmonic acid, and salicylic acid) play an important role in acquiring Se resistance and accumulation. Production of these phytohormones is enhanced via signal pathways of reactive oxygen species (ROS), and the signal pathways of phytohormones act in a cooperative or antagonistic manner to induce stress and S-uptake and S-metabolic genes. In this chapter, the contribution of ROS and phytohormone signaling in the acquisition of Se resistance and accumulation in Se hyper-accumulator plants was discussed, and the application of Se-responsive genes to generate transgenic plants that can detect Se in the environment was also introduced.

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Tamaoki, M., Maruyama-Nakashita, A. (2017). Molecular Mechanisms of Selenium Responses and Resistance in Plants. In: Pilon-Smits, E., Winkel, L., Lin, ZQ. (eds) Selenium in plants. Plant Ecophysiology, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56249-0_3

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