Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Responses to heat shock, arsenite and cadmium in soybean

Journal Article · · Plant Physiology, Supplement; (USA)
OSTI ID:7189096
 [1];  [2]
  1. Dept. of Energy, East Lansing, MI (USA)
  2. Univ. of Georgia, Athens (USA)
Heat shock (HS), arsenite (As) and cadmium (Cd) treatments induced the HS response in soybean seedlings but differed in their abilities to induce stress tolerance. Pretreatment of seedlings with sub-lethal HS protected them from subsequent normally lethal HS treatment. However, the protection was much more pronounced in 1 day-old than in 2 day-old plants. Sublethal arsenite pretreatment resulted in only a low level of protection against lethal As or HS treatment and severe damage still occurred in specific tissues. Cadmium did not induce any self- or cross-protection. DNA sequence analyses revealed that HS, As and Cd induced the transcription of similar sequences. However, Northern blot analyses of HS mRNAs, and analyses of in vitro translation products and in vivo-labeled proteins by 1D and 2D SDS-PAGE demonstrated that, compared to HS, the response to the chemical stresses was slower, less intense and not as selective. Apparently any causal relationship between HS proteins and induced stress tolerance must also involve developmental-, tissue-, and/or quantitative-specificities.
OSTI ID:
7189096
Journal Information:
Plant Physiology, Supplement; (USA), Journal Name: Plant Physiology, Supplement; (USA) Vol. 89:4; ISSN PPYSA; ISSN 0079-2241
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English