Table Of ContentDa-Peng Zhang Editor
Abscisic Acid:
Metabolism,
Transport and
Signaling
Abscisic Acid: Metabolism, Transport
and Signaling
Da-Peng Zhang
Editor
Abscisic Acid: Metabolism,
Transport and Signaling
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Editor
Da-Peng Zhang
School of Life Sciences
Tsinghua University
Beijing
China
ISBN 978-94-017-9423-7 ISBN 978-94-017-9424-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9424-4
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Preface
Abscisic acid (ABA) is one of the five classic phytohormones, which regulates
many aspects of plant growth and development, and is widely known as a ‘stress
hormone’ that modulates plant response to a variety of environmental cues, includ-
ing both abiotic and biotic challenges. Over the past 30 years, extensive studies
with biochemical, molecular genetic and genomic approaches have revealed the
main framework of ABA biosynthesis and catabolism pathways, and identified
ABA transporters and more than a hundred signaling components of ABA sign-
aling pathways. Especially, recent identification of ABA receptors allows to elu-
cidate ABA signal transduction from the primary signaling events to downstream
gene expression or effector activation, which deepens considerably our under-
standing of functional mechanisms of ABA. Additionally and importantly, num-
bers of the ABA-related genes have been engineered in crops for stress resistance
improvement, which provides opportunities for the development of new crop vari-
eties with enhanced stress resistance.
The objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive review of all aspects
of the mechanisms of ABA metabolism, transport and signal transduction, cov-
ering the current state of knowledge of ABA and recent advances in this efi ld.
Chapters 1–5 deal with ABA metabolism and transport, which rfistly i ntroduce
basic knowledge of chemical structure of ABA and its derivatives in relation
to their physiological functions (Chap. 1), followed by critical reviews of ABA
metabolic pathways (Chaps. 2 and 5) and ABA transport between cells and at the
whole plant level in relation to its function (Chaps. 3 and 4). Chapters 6 and 7
review ABA signal perception by three classes of ABA receptors or candidate
receptors with structural insights into how a family of PYR/PYL/RCAR soluble
receptors function to perceive ABA, and signaling pathways downstream of the
PYR/PYL/RCAR receptors and a chloroplast CHLH/ABAR candidate receptor.
Protein kinases and phosphatases involved in ABA signaling are reviewed in Chap. 8,
which helps to understand the critical roles of reversible protein p hosphorylation in
ABA signaling and especially in the PYR/PYL/RCAR-mediated signaling p athway.
Some other key processes of ABA signaling, mediated by protein u biquitination and
sumoylation, reactive oxygen species (ROS) and transcription factors, are reviewed
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in Chaps. 9–11. Crosstalk of signaling pathways between ABA and other phyto-
hormones as well as between ABA and light attracts much attention in recent years,
of which the advances are reviewed in Chaps. 12 and 13. Additionally, ABA has
been shown to be a signal to promote ripening of efl shy fruits, and the advances
in its metabolism and signaling in efl shy fruits are summarized in Chap. 14.
The topics of Chaps. 15–20 are focused on advances in ABA regulation of a diversity
of physiological responses, including stomatal movement (Chap. 15), plant responses
to drought, salt (Chap. 16) and cold stresses (Chap. 17), the ofl ral transition (Chap. 18),
circadian clock (Chap. 19), and plant response to biotic stresses (Chap. 20). The prin-
ciple and practice of ABA analysis are also addressed (Chap. 21). The last chapter dis-
cusses agricultural signicfi ance of the information on ABA metabolism and signaling
and reviews actuality of improvement of stress tolerance in crops by genetic manipula-
tion of ABA metabolism and signaling (Chap. 22).
I am very grateful to the authors for their excellent contributions to this
book, which are of great value to the readers with interests in plant biology and
agriculture.
Da-Peng Zhang
Contents
1 ABA and Its Derivatives: Chemistry and Physiological Functions .... 1
Yasushi Todoroki
2 ABA Biosynthetic and Catabolic Pathways ..................... 21
Akira Endo, Masanori Okamoto and Tomokazu Koshiba
3 ABA Transmembrane Transport and Transporters .............. 47
Mitsunori Seo
4 ABA Transport and Distribution in Relation to Its Function
in Plants .................................................. 61
Bingbing Li and Wensuo Jia
5 ABA Conjugates and Their Physiological Roles in Plant Cells ...... 77
Zheng-Yi Xu, Yun-Joo Yoo and Inhwan Hwang
6 ABA Signal Perception and ABA Receptors ..................... 89
Xiao-Fang Wang and Da-Peng Zhang
7 Structural Basis of ABA Perception by PYR/PYL/RCAR
Receptors ................................................. 117
Lun Jiang, Xingliang Zhang and Zhongzhou Chen
8 Protein Kinases and Phosphatases Involved in ABA Signaling ..... 137
Shan Liang and Da-Peng Zhang
9 Protein Ubiquitination and Sumoylation in ABA Signaling ........ 177
Yaorong Wu, Feifei Yu and Qi Xie
10 Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and ABA Signalling ............. 191
Ling Bai, Pengtao Wang and Chun-Peng Song
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11 Transcription Factors Involved in ABA Signaling ................ 225
Soo Young Kim
12 Cross Talk of Signaling Pathways Between ABA
and Other Phytohormones ................................... 243
Jiaqiang Sun and Chuanyou Li
13 Cross Talk Between Light and ABA Signaling ................... 255
Rongcheng Lin and Weijiang Tang
14 ABA Metabolism and Signaling in Fleshy Fruits ................. 271
Yuan-Yue Shen and Jocelyn K.C. Rose
15 ABA Regulation of Stomatal Movement ........................ 287
Yong-Fei Wang
16 ABA Regulation of Plant Responses to Drought and Salt Stresses ... 315
Yun Ma and Feng Qin
17 ABA Regulation of the Cold Stress Response in Plants ............ 337
Yiting Shi and Shuhua Yang
18 ABA and the Floral Transition ................................ 365
Lucio Conti, Massimo Galbiati and Chiara Tonelli
19 ABA Signaling and Circadian Clock ........................... 385
Sergi Portolés and Da-Peng Zhang
20 ABA Regulation of Plant Response to Biotic Stresses ............. 409
Ligang Chen and Diqiu Yu
21 Principles and Practice of ABA Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Zhigang Huang, Mohammed Humayun Kabir, Yuan Xiao,
Qing Liu, Jianhua Tong and Langtao Xiao
22 Improvement of Stress Tolerance in Crops by Genetic
Manipulation of ABA Metabolism, Signaling, and Regulation ...... 447
Hao Du and Lizhong Xiong
Contributors
Ling Bai Institute of Plant Stress Biology, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology,
Department of Biology, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
Ligang Chen Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical
Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
Zhongzhou Chen State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural
University, Beijing, China
Lucio Conti Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Hao Du National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National
Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan,
China
Akira Endo Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Canada; Crop Breeding Research Division, NARO Hokkaido Agricultural
Research Center, Sapporo, Japan
Massimo Galbiati Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy;
Fondazione Filarete, Milan, Italy
Zhigang Huang Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Phytohormones and Growth
Development, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Innovation
and Utilization, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Inhwan Hwang Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of
Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea; Division of Integrative Biosciences
and Biotechnology, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South
Korea
Wensuo Jia College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural
University, Beijing, China
Lun Jiang State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural
University, Beijing, China
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Mohammed Humayun Kabir Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Phytohormones
and Growth Development, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm
Innovation and Utilization, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Soo Young Kim Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Kumho Life Science
Laboratory, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University,
Gwangju, South Korea
Tomokazu Koshiba Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan
University, Tokyo, Japan
Bingbing Li College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural
University, Beijing, China
Chuanyou Li State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, National Centre for
Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Shan Liang Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China
Rongcheng Lin Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, The Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Qing Liu Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Phytohormones and Growth
Development, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Innovation
and Utilization, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Yun Ma Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Masanori Okamoto Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan
Sergi Portolés School of Life Sciences, Center for Plant Biology,
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Feng Qin Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Jocelyn K.C. Rose Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,
USA
Mitsunori Seo RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama,
Kanagawa, Japan
Yuan-Yue Shen Beijing Key Laboratory for Agricultural Application and New
Technique, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing, China
Yiting Shi State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of
Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Chun-Peng Song Institute of Plant Stress Biology, State Key Laboratory of Cotton
Biology, Department of Biology, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
