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. 2019 Feb 28;20(5):1056. doi: 10.3390/ijms20051056

Table 1.

Mutants affected in OGE displaying a salt stress phenotype.

Mutant Species Organelle Affected Gene (AGI code) Mutant Stress Phenotype Molecular Function Reference
mda1 Arabidopsis thaliana Chloroplast mTERF5 (AT4G14605) Reduced sensitivity to ABA, salt, and osmotic stress; altered sugar responses. [40]
mterf6 Arabidopsis thaliana Chloroplast mTERF6 (AT4G38160) Salt- and ABA-hypersensitive. Maturation of the chloroplast isoleucine tRNA (trnI.2) gene; transcription termination of the plastid rpoA polycistron [35,36,42]
mterf9 Arabidopsis thaliana Chloroplast mTERF9 (AT5G55580) Reduced sensitivity to ABA, salt, and osmotic stress; altered sugar responses. [41]
mterf10 Arabidopsis thaliana Chloroplast mTERF10 (AT2G34620) Hypersensitive to salt stress; mTERF10 overexpression leads to enhanced salt and ABA tolerance. [43]
mterf11 Arabidopsis thaliana Chloroplast mTERF11 (AT3G18870) Hypersensitive to ABA and salt stress. mTERF11 overexpression leads to enhanced salt tolerance and increased ABA sensitivity. [43]
ppr40 Arabidopsis thaliana Mitochondria PPR40 (AT3G16890) Enhanced sensitivity to salt, ABA, and oxidative stress. PPR40 overexpression improves salt tolerance and reduces oxidative stress. [45,46]
pgn Arabidopsis thaliana Mitochondria PGN (AT1G56570) Hypersensitive to salt, ABA, and glucose. Enhanced ROS levels under salt stress. [47]
ahg11 Arabidopsis thaliana Mitochondria AHG11 (AT2G44880) Hypersensitive to ABA, salt, and osmotic stress. Enhanced ROS levels. nad4 mitochondrial RNA editing [48]
slg1 Arabidopsis thaliana Mitochondria SLG1 (AT5G08490) Hypersensitive to ABA, salt, and osmotic stress. Enhanced tolerance to drought in adult plants. nad3 mitochondrial RNA editing [49]
slo2 Arabidopsis thaliana Mitochondria SLO2 (AT2G13600) Hypersensitive to ABA, salt, and osmotic stress. Insensitive to ethylene. Enhanced tolerance to drought and salt in adult plants. Enhanced ROS levels. nad4L, nad7, mttB, and nad1 mitochondrial RNA editing [50,51]
wsl Oryza sativa Chloroplast WSL (LOC_Os01g37870) Hypersensitive to ABA, salinity, and sugar. Enhanced H2O2 levels. Splicing of chloroplast transcript rpl2 [52]
ppr96 Arabidopsis thaliana Mitochondria PPR96 (AT2G03380) Reduced sensitivity to ABA, salt, and oxidative stress. [53]
atrh3 Arabidopsis thaliana Chloroplast AtRH3 (AT5G26742) ABA-deficient and salt-sensitive. Splicing of most intron-containing chloroplast genes [54,55,56]
psrp2 Arabidopsis thaliana Chloroplast PSRP2 (AT3G52150) Enhanced tolerance to salt, osmotic, and cold stress. PSRP2 overexpression leads to reduced tolerance to salt, dehydration, and cold stress. [57]
sig5 Arabidopsis thaliana Chloroplast SIG5 (AT5G24120) Hypersensitive to salt stress. Repair of stress-damaged PSII through the transcriptional activation of the psbD blue light receptor [58]