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Parental drought priming enhances tolerance to low temperature in wheat (Triticum aestivum) offspring

Junhong Guo A E , Hongyan Wang B , Shengqun Liu A , Yongjun Wang C , Fulai Liu D and Xiangnan Li https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0417-9151 A E F *
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A Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China.

B Laboratory of Plant Epigenetics and Evolution, School of Life Science, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China.

C Institute of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Jilin Academy of Agriculture Sciences/State Engineering Laboratory of Maize, Changchun 130033, China.

D University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Højbakkegård Allé 13, Tåstrup DK-2630, Denmark.

E University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.

F CAS Engineering Laboratory for Eco-agriculture in Water Source of Liaoheyuan, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun 130102, China.

* Correspondence to: lixiangnan@iga.ac.cn

Handling Editor: Ismail Turkan

Functional Plant Biology 49(11) 946-957 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP22043
Submitted: 20 February 2022  Accepted: 28 June 2022   Published: 25 July 2022

© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

Low temperature is one of the major environmental stresses that limit crop growth and grain yield in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Drought priming at the vegetative stage could enhance wheat tolerance to later cold stress; however, the transgenerational effects of drought priming on wheat offspring’s cold stress tolerance remains unclear. Here, the low temperature responses of offspring were tested after the parental drought priming treatment at grain filling stage. The offspring plants from parental drought priming treatment had a higher abscisic acid (ABA) level and lower osmotic potential (Ψo) than the control plants under cold conditions. Moreover, parental drought priming increased the antioxidant enzyme activities and decreased hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) accumulation in offspring. In comparison to control plants, parental drought priming plants had a higher ATP concentration and higher activities of ATPase and the enzymes involved in sucrose biosynthesis and starch metabolism. The results indicated that parental drought priming induced low temperature tolerance in offspring by regulating endogenous ABA levels and maintaining the redox homeostasis and the balance of carbohydrate metabolism, which provided a potential approach for cold resistant cultivation in wheat.

Keywords: antioxidant capacity, carbohydrate metabolism, drought priming, low temperature, osmotic adjustment, photosynthesis, transgenerational effects, Triticum aestivum.


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