Claim · model-written summary
Field drought disordered normal metabolic programming in developing maize kernels and caused oxidative stress.
Zea maysVerbatim
e0“Drought stress conditions decrease maize growth and yield”
e7“Overall, field drought treatments disordered a cascade of normal metabolic programming during development of maize kernels and subsequently caused oxidative stress”
Title
Deciphering drought‐induced metabolic responses and regulation in developing maize kernels
Liming Yang; Jake C. Fountain; Pingsheng Ji; et al. Plant Biotechnology Journal 2018. doi:10.1111/pbi.12899
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Metabolomic profiling of developing maize kernels detected 409 differentially accumulated metabolites.
- Intervention effect Drought stress induced an accumulation of simple sugars and polyunsaturated fatty acids in B73 relative to irrigated plants.
- Intervention effect Drought stress decreased amines, polyamines and dipeptides in B73 relative to irrigated plants.
- Intervention effect Drought stress led to accumulation of sphingolipid and sterol metabolites in Lo964.
- Intervention effect Drought stress led to accumulation of phenylpropanoid and dipeptide metabolites in Lo964.
- Intervention effect Drought stress resulted in greater accumulation of reactive oxygen species and aflatoxin in B73 kernels than in Lo964.
- Association Greater reactive oxygen species and aflatoxin accumulation under drought implies a correlation in their production.
- Observation Glutathione and urea cycles were central among the drought stress responses of developing maize kernels.
- Recommendation The authors suggest that the drought-response findings provide novel targets to enhance drought tolerance and disease resistance in maize.