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Título: Prospecting sugarcane genes involved in aluminum tolerance.
Autoria: DRUMMOND, R. D.
GUIMARAES, C. T.
FELIX, J.
NINAMANGO-CARDENAS, F. E.
CARNEIRO, N. P.
PAIVA, E
MENOSSI, M.
Afiliação: CLAUDIA TEIXEIRA GUIMARAES, CNPMS; NEWTON PORTILHO CARNEIRO, CNPMS.
Ano de publicação: 2001
Referência: Genetics and Molecular Biology, Ribeirão Preto, v. 24, n. 1/4, p. 221-230, 2001.
Conteúdo: Aluminium is one of the major factors that affect plant development in acid soils, causing a substantial reduction in yield in many crops. In South America, about 66% of the land surface is made up of acid soils where high aluminium saturation is one of the main limiting factors for agriculture. The biochemical and molecular basis of aluminium tolerance in plants is far from being completely understood despite a growing number of studies, and in the specific case of sugarcane there are virtually no reports on the effects of gene regulation on aluminium stress. The objective of the work presented in this paper was to prospect the sugarcane expressed sequence tag (SUCEST) data bank for sugarcane genes related to several biochemical pathways known to be involved in the responses to aluminium toxicity in other plant species and yeast. Sugarcane genes similar to most of these genes were found, including those coding for enzymes that alleviate oxidative stress or combat infection by pathogens and those which code for proteins responsible for the release of organic acids and signal transducers. The role of these genes in aluminium tolerance mechanisms is reviewed. Due to the high level of genomic conservation in related grasses such as maize, barley, sorghum and sugarcane, these genes may be valuable tools which will help us to better understand and to manipulate aluminium tolerance in these species.
NAL Thesaurus: genes
sugarcane
Palavras-chave: Aluminium
biochemical-pathways
gene-expression
heavy-metals
metal-tolerance
nucleotide-sequences
Tipo do material: Artigo de periódico
Acesso: openAccess
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