Abstract
Proteins inducible by dehydration and abscisic acid (ABA), termed dehydrins or RAB (Responsive to ABA) proteins, have been identified in a number of species and have been suggested to play a role in desiccation tolerance, particularly during seed development. Seeds (caryopses) of North American wild rice (Zizania palustris var interior [Fassett] Dore) are tolerant of dehydration to <10% moisture content (fresh weight basis) only under restricted dehydration and rehydration conditions. In comparison, seeds of paddy rice (Oryza sativa L.) readily tolerate desiccation to <5% water content. Expression of “dehydrin-like” proteins in Zizania and Oryza seedlings and embryos was examined to investigate the relationship between the presence of such proteins and desiccation tolerance. [35S]Methionine labeling of newly synthesized proteins showed that seedlings (first leaf stage) of both Zizania and Oryza synthesized a novel “heat-stable” protein of apparent molecular weight = 20,000 when dehydrated to <75% of their initial fresh weight. ABA (100 micromolar) induced synthesis of a protein with similar electrophoretic mobility in both species. Western blots using antiserum raised against maize (Zea mays L.) dehydrin detected a protein band from dehydrated Zizania shoots and mature embryonic axes that comigrated with the labeled 20-kilodalton polypeptide. Northern blots using a cDNA for an ABA-responsive protein from Oryza (rab 16a) showed that both seedlings and excised embryonic axes of Zizania accumulated RNA similar in sequence to rab 16a in response to water loss. Zizania seedlings and embryonic axes were also capable of ABA accumulation during dehydration. The intolerance of Zizania seeds to dehydration at low temperature is apparently not due to an absence of dehydrin-like proteins or an inability to accumulate ABA.
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