Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Ethylene-mediated nitric oxide depletion pre-adapts plants to hypoxia stress

  • Sjon Hartman,
  • Zeguang Liu,
  • Hans van Veen,
  • Jorge Vicente,
  • Emilie Reinen,
  • Shanice Martopawiro,
  • Hongtao Zhang,
  • Nienke van Dongen,
  • Femke Bosman,
  • George W. Bassel,
  • Eric J. W. Visser,
  • Julia Bailey-Serres,
  • Frederica L. Theodoulou,
  • Kim H. Hebelstrup,
  • Daniel J. Gibbs,
  • Michael J. Holdsworth,
  • Rashmi Sasidharan,
  • Laurentius A. C. J. Voesenek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12045-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Plant hypoxia responses are controlled by oxygen and nitric oxide (NO)-dependent proteolysis of ERFVII transcription factors. Here Hartman et al. show that passive ethylene entrapment during root submergence enhances NO-scavenger PHYTOGLOBIN1, ERFVII stability and promotes subsequent hypoxia tolerance.