Alternative Respiratory Pathways in Higher Plants (eBook)

Dr Kapuganti Jagadis Gupta is a Scientist at Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, UK and currently heading a research group at National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India Dr Luis A.J. Mur is a Professor at IBERS (Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences), Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. Dr Bhagyalakshmi Neelwarne is the Chief Scientist and Professor, currently heading the Department of Plant Cell Biotechnology at Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India.

List of contributors ix

Preface xiii

Section A: Physiology of plant respiration and involvement of alternative oxidase

1 Integrating classical and alternative respiratory pathway 3
Kapuganti J. Gupta, Bhagyalakshmi Neelwarne and Luis A.J. Mur

2 Non-coupled pathways of plant mitochondrial electron transport and the maintenance of photorespiratory flux 21
Abir U. Igamberdiev and Natalia V. Bykova

3 Taxonomic distribution of alternative oxidase in plants 43
Allison E. McDonald

4 Alternative pathways and phosphate and nitrogen nutrition 53
Anna M. Rychter and Bo|ena Szal

5 Structural elucidation of the alternative oxidase reveals insights into the catalytic cycle and regulation of activity 75
Catherine Elliott, Mary S. Albury, Luke Young, Ben May and Anthony L. Moore

6 The role of alternative respiratory proteins in nitric oxide metabolism by plant mitochondria 95
Ione Salgado and Halley Caixeta Oliveira

7 Control of mitochondrial metabolism through functional and spatial integration of mitochondria 115
Samir Sharma

8 Modes of electron transport chain function during stress: Does alternative oxidase respiration aid in balancing cellular energy metabolism during drought stress and recovery? 157
Greg C. Vanlerberghe, Jia Wang, Marina Cvetkovska and Keshav Dahal

9 Regulation of cytochrome and alternative pathways under light and osmotic stress 185
Padmanabh Dwivedi

10 Alternative respiratory pathway in ripening fruits 201
Bhagyalakshmi Neelwarne

11 Respiratory pathways in bulky tissues and storage organs 221
Wu-Sheng Liang

Section B: From AOX diversity to functional marker development
Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt

Introduction 235

12 Exploring AOX gene diversity 239

12.1 Natural AOX gene diversity 241
Helia G. Cardoso, Amaia Nogales, Antonio Miguel Frederico, Jan T. Svensson, Elisete Santos Macedo, Vera Valadas and Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt

12.2 AOX gene diversity in Arabidopsis ecotypes 255
Jose Helio Costa and Jan T. Svensson

12.3 Artificial intelligence for the detection of AOX functional markers 261
Paulo Quaresma, Teresa Goncalves, Salvador Abreu, Jose Helio Costa, Kaveh Mashayekhi, Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt and Jan T. Svensson

12.4 Evolution of AOX genes across kingdoms and the challenge of classification 267
Allison E. McDonald, Jose Helio Costa, Tania Nobre, Dirce Fernandes de Melo and Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt

13 Towards exploitation of AOX gene diversity in plant breeding 273

13.1 Functional marker development from AOX genes requires deep phenotyping and individualized diagnosis 275
Amaia Nogales, Carlos Noceda, Carla Ragonezi, Helia G. Cardoso, Maria Doroteia Campos, Antonio Miguel Frederico, Debabrata Sircar, Sarma Rajeev Kumar, Alexios Polidoros, Augusto Peixe and Birgit Arnhold-Schmitt

13.2 AOX gene diversity can affect DNA methylation and genome organization relevant for functional marker developmen, 281
Carlos Noceda, Jan T. Svensson, Amaia Nogales and Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt

13.3 Gene technology applied for AOX functionality studies 287
Sarma Rajeev Kumar and Ramalingam Sathishkumar

14 AOX goes risk: A way to application 299

14.1 AOX diversity studies stimulate novel tool development for phenotyping: calorespirometry 301
Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt, Lee D. Hansen, Amaia Nogales and Luz Munoz-Sanhueza

14.2 AOX gene diversity in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) products: a special challenge 305
Louis Mercy, Jan T. Svensson, Eva Lucic, Helia G. Cardoso, Amaia Nogales, Matthias Doring, Jens Jurgeleit, Caroline Schneider and Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt

14.3 Can AOX gene diversity mark herbal tea quality? A proposal 311
Michail Orfanoudakis, Evangelia Sinapidou and Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt

14.4 AOX in parasitic nematodes: a matter of lifestyle? 315
Vera Valadas, Margarida Espada, Tania Nobre, Manuel Mota and Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt

14.5 Bacterial AOX: a provocative lack of interest! 319
Claudia Vicente, Jose Helio Costa and Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt General conclusion, 323

References 325

Section C: Protocols

15 Technical protocol for mitochondria isolation for different studies 347
Renate Horn

16 Simultaneous isolation of root and leaf mitochondria from Arabidopsis 359
Kapuganti J. Gupta and Ralph Ewald

Index 000