Paper · 2014 · Plant Omics

Exogenous spermidine improves water stress tolerance of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) involved in antioxidant defence, gene expression and proline metabolism

Zhou Li; Peng Yan; Xinquan Zhang; et al.

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Abstract

Spermidine (Spd) may be involved in the regulation of plant adaptation to drought stress. The objectives of the study were to identify the physiological effect and elucidate the possible mechanism caused by exogenous Spd (0.05 mM) in white clover under water stress induced by 20% polyethylene glycol 6000 for 12 days. Water stress elevated significantly the accumulation of reactive oxygen species and malonaldehyde, and resulted in the decrease of cell membrane stability, relative water content and relative growth mte. Spd effectively alleviated the damage effect from water stress. Spd-treated plants showed a promoted the ascorbate-glutathione cycle and maintained greater antioxidant enzyme activities (superoxide dismutase, peroxidase and catalase), as well as higher transcript level of genes encoding antioxidant enzymes than untreated plants. Additionally, the plants treated with Spd under water stress exhibited more accumulated organic solutes including soluble sugar, reducing sugar, betaine and free proline. Spd also accelemted proline catabolism and biosynthesis proceeding from glutamate pathway during water stress, but had no effect on the omithine pathway of proline biosynthesis. These results suggest that exogenous Spd under water stress may directly or indirectly regulate antioxidant defense system, organic solutes accumulation and proline metabolism.

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Claims 12

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Water stress increased reactive oxygen species and malonaldehyde accumulation.

Taxon
white cloverTrifolium repenst0
Treatment
Water stresse0
Outcome
accumulation of reactive oxygen species and malonaldehydee0
Direction
elevatede0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens · TaxonIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Water stress elevated significantly the accumulation of reactive oxygen species and malonaldehyde”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 319–416 · show in text ↑
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“white clover”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Water stress decreased membrane stability, relative water content, and relative growth rate.

Taxon
white cloverTrifolium repenst0
Treatment
Water stresse0
Outcome
cell membrane stability, relative water content and relative growth mtee0
Direction
decreasee0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens · TaxonIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Water stress elevated significantly the accumulation of reactive oxygen species and malonaldehyde, and resulted in the decrease of cell membrane stability, relative water content and relative growth mte”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 319–521 · show in text ↑
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“white clover”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 56–68 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Spermidine alleviated water-stress damage.

Taxon
white cloverTrifolium repenst0
Treatment
Spde0
Outcome
damage effect from water stresse0
Direction
alleviatede0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens · TaxonIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Spd effectively alleviated the damage effect from water stress.”

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“white clover”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 56–68 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Spermidine promoted the ascorbate-glutathione cycle.

Taxon
white cloverTrifolium repenst0
Treatment
Spd-treatede0
Outcome
ascorbate-glutathione cyclee0
Direction
promotede0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens · TaxonIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Spd-treated plants showed a promoted the ascorbate-glutathione cycle”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 587–655 · show in text ↑
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“white clover”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 56–68 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Spermidine-treated plants maintained greater antioxidant enzyme activities than untreated plants.

Taxon
white cloverTrifolium repenst0
Treatment
Spd-treatede0
Gene
superoxide dismutase, peroxidase and catalasee0
Outcome
antioxidant enzyme activitiese0
Direction
greatere0
Comparator
untreated plantse0

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Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens · TaxonIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Spd-treated plants showed a promoted the ascorbate-glutathione cycle and maintained greater antioxidant enzyme activities (superoxide dismutase, peroxidase and catalase), as well as higher transcript level of genes encoding antioxidant enzymes than untreated plants.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 587–853 · show in text ↑
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“white clover”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 56–68 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Spermidine-treated plants had higher transcript levels of antioxidant-enzyme genes than untreated plants.

Taxon
white cloverTrifolium repenst0
Treatment
Spd-treatede0
Gene
genes encoding antioxidant enzymese0
Outcome
transcript level of genes encoding antioxidant enzymese0
Direction
highere0
Comparator
untreated plantse0

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens · TaxonIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Spd-treated plants showed a promoted the ascorbate-glutathione cycle and maintained greater antioxidant enzyme activities (superoxide dismutase, peroxidase and catalase), as well as higher transcript level of genes encoding antioxidant enzymes than untreated plants.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 587–853 · show in text ↑
t0

“white clover”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 56–68 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Under water stress, spermidine-treated plants accumulated more soluble sugar, reducing sugar, and betaine.

Taxon
white cloverTrifolium repenst0
Treatment
treated with Spde0
Outcome
more accumulated organic solutes including soluble sugar, reducing sugar, betainee0
Direction
more accumulatede0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens · TaxonIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“the plants treated with Spd under water stress exhibited more accumulated organic solutes including soluble sugar, reducing sugar, betaine and free proline.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 868–1024 · show in text ↑
t0

“white clover”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 56–68 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Under water stress, spermidine-treated plants accumulated more free proline.

Taxon
white cloverTrifolium repenst0
Treatment
treated with Spde0
Outcome
free prolinee0
Direction
more accumulatede0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens · TaxonIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“the plants treated with Spd under water stress exhibited more accumulated organic solutes including soluble sugar, reducing sugar, betaine and free proline.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 868–1024 · show in text ↑
t0

“white clover”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 56–68 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Spermidine accelerated proline catabolism under water stress.

Taxon
white cloverTrifolium repenst0
Treatment
Spde0
Outcome
proline catabolisme0
Direction
accelemtede0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens · TaxonIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Spd also accelemted proline catabolism and biosynthesis proceeding from glutamate pathway during water stress”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1025–1134 · show in text ↑
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“white clover”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 56–68 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Spermidine accelerated proline biosynthesis through the glutamate pathway under water stress.

Taxon
white cloverTrifolium repenst0
Treatment
Spde0
Outcome
biosynthesis proceeding from glutamate pathwaye0
Direction
accelemtede0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens · TaxonIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Spd also accelemted proline catabolism and biosynthesis proceeding from glutamate pathway during water stress”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1025–1134 · show in text ↑
t0

“white clover”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 56–68 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Spermidine had no effect on the ornithine pathway of proline biosynthesis.

Taxon
white cloverTrifolium repenst0
Treatment
Spde0
Outcome
omithine pathway of proline biosynthesise0
Direction
no effecte0

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens · TaxonIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Spd also accelemted proline catabolism and biosynthesis proceeding from glutamate pathway during water stress, but had no effect on the omithine pathway of proline biosynthesis.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1025–1202 · show in text ↑
t0

“white clover”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 56–68 · show in text ↑
Mechanismauthor interpretationoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

The authors suggest spermidine may regulate antioxidant defense, organic solute accumulation, and proline metabolism under water stress.

Taxon
white cloverTrifolium repenst0
Treatment
exogenous Spde0
Outcome
antioxidant defense system, organic solutes accumulation and proline metabolisme0
Qualifier
may directly or indirectlye0

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Trifolium repens
Trifolium repens · TaxonIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“These results suggest that exogenous Spd under water stress may directly or indirectly regulate antioxidant defense system, organic solutes accumulation and proline metabolism.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1203–1379 · show in text ↑
t0

“white clover”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 56–68 · show in text ↑

spermidine · molecular: metabolites · Trifolium repens (white clover)Positive and negative results

6 papers: 5 positive, 1 negative or no effect

4 papers in the same direction as this paper · 1 in the opposite direction

  1. positive
  2. no effect
  3. positive

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spermidine · pest · Trifolium repens (white clover)Results agree

2 papers: 2 positive, 0 negative or no effect

1 paper in the same direction as this paper

  1. positive
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spermidine · soil: biology · Trifolium repens (white clover)Results agree

2 papers: 2 positive, 0 negative or no effect

1 paper in the same direction as this paper

  1. positive
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spermidine · physiology: osmolytes · Trifolium repens (white clover)Results agree

2 papers: 2 positive, 0 negative or no effect

1 paper in the same direction as this paper

  1. positive
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spermidine · molecular: expression · Trifolium repens (white clover)Results agree

6 papers: 6 positive, 0 negative or no effect

5 papers in the same direction as this paper

  1. positive
  2. positive
  3. positive

2 papers more in this group

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drought · physiology: oxidative · Trifolium repens (white clover)Positive and negative results

9 papers: 1 positive, 8 negative or no effect

7 papers in the same direction as this paper · 1 in the opposite direction

  1. negative
  2. positive
  3. negative

5 papers more in this group

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drought · physiology: water · Trifolium repens (white clover)Positive and negative results

15 papers: 4 positive, 11 negative or no effect

10 papers in the same direction as this paper · 4 in the opposite direction

  1. positive
  2. positive
  3. positive

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