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Chapter 39 Plant Responses to Internal and External Signals PowerPoint Lectures for Biology, Seventh Edition Neil Campbell and Jane Reece Lectures by Chris Romero Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Overview: Stimuli and a Stationary Life • Plants, being rooted to the ground, must respond to environmental changes that come their way • For example, the bending of a seedling toward light begins with sensing the direction, quantity, and color of the light Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Concept 39.1: Signal transduction pathways link signal reception to response • Plants have cellular receptors that detect changes in their environment • For a stimulus to elicit a response, certain cells must have an appropriate receptor Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings • A potato left growing in darkness produces shoots that look unhealthy and lacks elongated roots • These are morphological adaptations for growing in darkness, collectively called etiolation Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-2 Before exposure to light. A dark-grown potato has tall, spindly stems and nonexpanded leaves— morphological adaptations that enable the shoots to penetrate the soil. The roots are short, but there is little need for water absorption because little water is lost by the shoots. After a week’s exposure to natural daylight. The potato plant begins to resemble a typical plant with broad green leaves, short sturdy stems, and long roots. This transformation begins with the reception of light by a specific pigment, phytochrome. • After exposure to light, a potato undergoes changes called de-etiolation, in which shoots and roots grow normally Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings • A potato’s response to light is an example of cellsignal processing • The stages are reception, transduction, and response Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-3 CELL WALL Reception CYTOPLASM Transduction Relay molecules Receptor Hormone or environmental stimulus Plasma membrane Response Activation of cellular responses Reception • Internal and external signals are detected by receptors, proteins that change in response to specific stimuli Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Transduction • Second messengers transfer and amplify signals from receptors to proteins that cause responses Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-4_3 Reception Response Transduction Transcription NUCLEUS factor 1 CYTOPLASM Plasma membrane cGMP Second messenger produced Specific protein kinase 1 activated Transcription factor 2 Phytochrome activated by light Cell wall Specific protein kinase 2 activated Transcription Light Translation Ca2+ channel opened Ca2+ De-etiolation (greening) response proteins Response • A signal transduction pathway leads to regulation of one or more cellular activities • In most cases, these responses to stimulation involve increased activity of enzymes Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Transcriptional Regulation • Transcription factors bind directly to specific regions of DNA and control transcription of genes Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Post-Translational Modification of Proteins • Post-translational modification involves activation of existing proteins in the signal response Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings De-Etioloation (“Greening”) Proteins • Many enzymes that function in certain signal responses are directly involved in photosynthesis • Other enzymes are involved in supplying chemical precursors for chlorophyll production Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Concept 39.2: Plant hormones help coordinate growth, development, and responses to stimuli • Hormones are chemical signals that coordinate different parts of an organism Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings The Discovery of Plant Hormones • Any response resulting in curvature of organs toward or away from a stimulus is called a tropism • Tropisms are often caused by hormones Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings • In the late 1800s, Charles Darwin and his son Francis conducted experiments on phototropism, a plant’s response to light • They observed that a seedling could bend toward light only if the tip of the coleoptile was present • They postulated that a signal was transmitted from the tip to the elongating region Video: Phototropism Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-5a Shaded side of coleoptile Control Light Illuminated side of coleoptile LE 39-5b Darwin and Darwin (1880) Light Tip Tip removed covered by opaque cap Base covered Tip covered by opaque by trans- shield parent cap • In 1913, Peter Boysen-Jensen demonstrated that the signal was a mobile chemical substance Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-5c Boysen-Jensen (1913) Light Tip separated Tip separated by by mica gelatin block • In 1926, Frits Went extracted the chemical messenger for phototropism, auxin, by modifying earlier experiments Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-6 Excised tip placed on agar block Growth-promoting chemical diffuses into agar block Control Control (agar block lacking chemical) has no effect Agar block with chemical stimulates growth Offset blocks cause curvature A Survey of Plant Hormones • In general, hormones control plant growth and development by affecting the division, elongation, and differentiation of cells • Plant hormones are produced in very low concentration, but a minute amount can greatly affect growth and development of a plant organ Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Auxin • The term auxin refers to any chemical that promotes cell elongation in target tissues • Auxin transporters move the hormone from the basal end of one cell into the apical end of the neighboring cell Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-7 Cell 1 100 µm Cell 2 Epidermis Cortex Phloem Xylem Pith Basal end of cell 25 µm The Role of Auxin in Cell Elongation • According to the acid growth hypothesis, auxin stimulates proton pumps in the plasma membrane • The proton pumps lower the pH in the cell wall, activating expansins, enzymes that loosen the wall’s fabric • With the cellulose loosened, the cell can elongate Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-8a Cross-linking cell wall polysaccharides Cell wall enzymes Expansin CELL WALL Microfibril ATP Plasma membrane CYTOPLASM LE 39-8b H 2O Plasma membrane Cell wall Nucleus Cytoplasm Vacuole Lateral and Adventitious Root Formation • Auxin is involved in root formation and branching Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Auxins as Herbicides • An overdose of auxins can kill eudicots Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Other Effects of Auxin • Auxin affects secondary growth by inducing cell division in the vascular cambium and influencing differentiation of secondary xylem Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Cytokinins • Cytokinins are so named because they stimulate cytokinesis (cell division) Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Control of Cell Division and Differentiation • Cytokinins are produced in actively growing tissues such as roots, embryos, and fruits • Cytokinins work together with auxin Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Control of Apical Dominance • Cytokinins, auxin, and other factors interact in the control of apical dominance, a terminal bud’s ability to suppress development of axillary buds Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-9 Axillary buds “Stump” after removal of apical bud Lateral branches Intact plant Plant with apical bud removed • If the terminal bud is removed, plants become bushier Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Anti-Aging Effects • Cytokinins retard the aging of some plant organs by inhibiting protein breakdown, stimulating RNA and protein synthesis, and mobilizing nutrients from surrounding tissues Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Gibberellins • Gibberellins have a variety of effects, such as stem elongation, fruit growth, and seed germination Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Stem Elongation • Gibberellins stimulate growth of leaves and stems • In stems, they stimulate cell elongation and cell division Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fruit Growth • In many plants, both auxin and gibberellins must be present for fruit to set • Gibberellins are used in spraying of Thompson seedless grapes Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Germination • After water is imbibed, release of gibberellins from the embryo signals seeds to germinate Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-11 Aleurone Endosperm a-amylase GA Water Scutellum (cotyledon) GA Radicle Sugar Brassinosteroids • Brassinosteroids are similar to the sex hormones of animals • They induce cell elongation and division Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Abscisic Acid • Two of the many effects of abscisic acid (ABA): – Seed dormancy – Drought tolerance Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Seed Dormancy • Seed dormancy ensures that the seed will germinate only in optimal conditions • Precocious germination is observed in maize mutants that lack a transcription factor required for ABA to induce expression of certain genes Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-12 Coleoptile Drought Tolerance • ABA is the primary internal signal that enables plants to withstand drought Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Ethylene • Plants produce ethylene in response to stresses such as drought, flooding, mechanical pressure, injury, and infection Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings The Triple Response to Mechanical Stress • Ethylene induces the triple response, which allows a growing shoot to avoid obstacles • The triple response consists of a slowing of stem elongation, a thickening of the stem, and horizontal growth Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-13 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.40 Ethylene concentration (parts per million) 0.80 • Ethylene-insensitive mutants fail to undergo the triple response after exposure to ethylene Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-14 ein mutant ctr mutant ein mutant. An ethylene-insensitive (ein) mutant fails to undergo the triple response in the presence of ethylene. ctr mutant. A constitutive triple-response (ctr) mutant undergoes the triple response even in the absence of ethylene. • Other mutants undergo the triple response in air but do not respond to inhibitors of ethylene synthesis Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-15 Control Wild-type Ethylene insensitive (ein) Ethylene overproducing (eto) Constitutive triple response (ctr) Ethylene added Ethylene synthesis inhibitor Apoptosis: Programmed Cell Death • A burst of ethylene is associated with apoptosis, the programmed destruction of cells, organs, or whole plants Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Leaf Abscission • A change in the balance of auxin and ethylene controls leaf abscission, the process that occurs in autumn when a leaf falls Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-16 0.5 mm Protective layer Stem Abscission layer Petiole Fruit Ripening • A burst of ethylene production in a fruit triggers the ripening process Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Systems Biology and Hormone Interactions • Interactions between hormones and signal transduction pathways make it hard to predict how genetic manipulation will affect a plant • Systems biology seeks a comprehensive understanding that permits modeling of plant functions Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Concept 39.3: Responses to light are critical for plant success • Light cues many key events in plant growth and development • Effects of light on plant morphology are called photomorphogenesis Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings • Plants detect not only presence of light but also its direction, intensity, and wavelength (color) • A graph called an action spectrum depicts relative response of a process to different wavelengths • Action spectra are useful in studying any process that depends on light Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Phototropic effectiveness relative to 436 nm LE 39-17 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 400 450 500 550 600 Wavelength (nm) Light Time = 0 min. Time = 90 min. 650 700 • There are two major classes of light receptors: blue-light photoreceptors and phytochromes Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Blue-Light Photoreceptors • Various blue-light photoreceptors control hypocotyl elongation, stomatal opening, and phototropism Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Phytochromes as Photoreceptors • Phytochromes regulate many of a plant’s responses to light throughout its life Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Phytochromes and Seed Germination • Studies of seed germination led to the discovery of phytochromes Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings • In the 1930s, scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture determined the action spectrum for light-induced germination of lettuce seeds Dark (control) Dark Dark Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-18 Dark (control) Red Dark Red Far-red Red Red Far-red Dark Dark Red Far-red Red Far-red • The photoreceptor responsible for the opposing effects of red and far-red light is a phytochrome Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-19 A phytochrome consists of two identical proteins joined to form one functional molecule. Each of these proteins has two domains. Chromophore Photoreceptor activity Kinase activity • Phytochromes exist in two photoreversible states, with conversion of Pr to Pfr triggering many developmental responses Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-20 Pr Pfr Red light Responses: seed germination, control of flowering, etc. Synthesis Far-red light Slow conversion in darkness (some plants) Enzymatic destruction Phytochromes and Shade Avoidance • The phytochrome system also provides the plant with information about the quality of light • In the “shade avoidance” response, the phytochrome ratio shifts in favor of Pr when a tree is shaded Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Biological Clocks and Circadian Rhythms • Many plant processes oscillate during the day • Many legumes lower their leaves in the evening and raise them in the morning Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-21 Noon Midnight • Cyclical responses to environmental stimuli are called circadian rhythms and are about 24 hours long • Circadian rhythms can be entrained to exactly 24 hours by the day/night cycle Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings The Effect of Light on the Biological Clock • Phytochrome conversion marks sunrise and sunset, providing the biological clock with environmental cues Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Photoperiodism and Responses to Seasons • Photoperiod, the relative lengths of night and day, is the environmental stimulus plants use most often to detect the time of year • Photoperiodism is a physiological response to photoperiod Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Photoperiodism and Control of Flowering • Some processes, including flowering in many species, require a certain photoperiod • Plants that flower when a light period is shorter than a critical length are called short-day plants • Plants that flower when a light period is longer than a certain number of hours are called longday plants • In the 1940s, researchers discovered that flowering and other responses to photoperiod are actually controlled by night length, not day length Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-22 Darkness Flash of light Critical dark period Light “Short-day” plants “Long-day” plants • Action spectra and photoreversibility experiments show that phytochrome is the pigment that receives red light • Red light can interrupt the nighttime portion of the photoperiod Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-23 24 20 R FR R 16 12 8 4 0 Short-day (long-night) plant Long-day (short-night) plant R FR R FR R FR R A Flowering Hormone? • The flowering signal, not yet chemically identified, is called florigen • Florigen may be a hormone or a change in relative concentrations of multiple hormones Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-24 Graft Time (several weeks) Meristem Transition and Flowering • For a bud to form a flower instead of a vegetative shoot, meristem identity genes must first be switched on • Researchers seek to identify the signal transduction pathways that link cues such as photoperiod and hormonal changes to the gene expression required for flowering Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Concept 39.4: Plants respond to a wide variety of stimuli other than light • Because of immobility, plants must adjust to a range of environmental circumstances through developmental and physiological mechanisms Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Gravity • Response to gravity is known as gravitropism • Roots show positive gravitropism • Stems show negative gravitropism Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings • Plants may detect gravity by the settling of statoliths, specialized plastids containing dense starch grains Video: Gravitropism Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-25 Statoliths 20 µm Mechanical Stimuli • The term thigmomorphogenesis refers to changes in form that result from mechanical perturbation • Rubbing stems of young plants a couple of times daily results in plants that are shorter than controls Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings • Thigmotropism is growth in response to touch • It occurs in vines and other climbing plants Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings • Rapid leaf movements in response to mechanical stimulation are examples of transmission of electrical impulses called action potentials Video: Mimosa Leaf Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-27 Unstimulated Stimulated Side of pulvinus with flaccid cells Leaflets after stimulation Side of pulvinus with turgid cells Vein Pulvinus (motor organ) Motor organs 0.5 mm Environmental Stresses • Environmental stresses have a potentially adverse effect on survival, growth, and reproduction • They can have a devastating impact on crop yields in agriculture Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Drought • During drought, plants respond to water deficit by reducing transpiration • Deeper roots continue to grow Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Flooding • Enzymatic destruction of cells creates air tubes that help plants survive oxygen deprivation during flooding Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-28 Vascular cylinder Air tubes Epidermis 100 µm Control root (aerated) 100 µm Experimental root (nonaerated) Salt Stress • Plants respond to salt stress by producing solutes tolerated at high concentrations • This process keeps the water potential of cells more negative than that of the soil solution Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Heat Stress • Heat-shock proteins help plants survive heat stress Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Cold Stress • Altering lipid composition of membranes is a response to cold stress Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Concept 39.5: Plants defend themselves against herbivores and pathogens • Plants counter external threats with defense systems that deter herbivory and prevent infection or combat pathogens Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Defenses Against Herbivores • Herbivory, animals eating plants, is a stress that plants face in any ecosystem • Plants counter excessive herbivory with physical defenses such as thorns and chemical defenses such as distasteful or toxic compounds Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings • Some plants even “recruit” predatory animals that help defend against specific herbivores Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-29 Recruitment of parasitoid wasps that lay their eggs within caterpillars Synthesis and release of volatile attractants Wounding Chemical in saliva Signal transduction pathway Defenses Against Pathogens • A plant’s first line of defense against infection is its “skin,” the epidermis or periderm • If a pathogen penetrates the dermal tissue, the second line of defense is a chemical attack that kills the pathogen and prevents its spread • This second defense system is enhanced by the inherited ability to recognize certain pathogens Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings Gene-for-Gene Recognition • A virulent pathogen is one that a plant has little specific defense against • An avirulent pathogen is one that may harm but not kill the host plant • Gene-for-gene recognition involves recognition of pathogen-derived molecules by protein products of specific plant disease resistance (R) genes Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings • A pathogen is avirulent if it has a specific Avr gene corresponding to an R allele in the host plant Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-30a Signal molecule (ligand) from Avr gene product Receptor coded by R allele R Avr allele Avirulent pathogen Plant cell is resistant If an Avr allele in the pathogen corresponds to an R allele in the host plant, the host plant will have resistance, making the pathogen avirulent. • If the plant host lacks the R gene that counteracts the pathogen’s Avr gene, then the pathogen can invade and kill the plant Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-30b R No Avr allele; virulent pathogen R allele; plant cell becomes diseased Avr allele Avr allele; virulent pathogen No R allele; plant cell becomes diseased No Avr allele; virulent pathogen No R allele; plant cell becomes diseased If there is no gene-for-gene recognition because of one of the above three conditions, the pathogen will be virulent, causing disease to develop. Plant Responses to Pathogen Invasions • A hypersensitive response against an avirulent pathogen seals off the infection and kills both pathogen and host cells in the region of the infection Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings LE 39-31 Signal Hypersensitive response Signal transduction pathway Signal transduction pathway Acquired resistance Avirulent pathogen R-Avr recognition and hypersensitive response Systemic acquired resistance Systemic Acquired Resistance • Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a set of generalized defense responses in organs distant from the original site of infection • Salicylic acid is a good candidate for one of the hormones that activates SAR Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Benjamin Cummings