Thanachok Taticharoen. Response and acclimation to drought and heat stress on dendrobium sonia Earsakul and protoplast transient expression system for genome editing studies in dendrobium. Doctoral Degree(Agricultural Sciences). Kasetsart University. Office of the University Library. : Kasetsart University, 2022.
Response and acclimation to drought and heat stress on dendrobium sonia Earsakul and protoplast transient expression system for genome editing studies in dendrobium
Abstract:
The study of CAM response to the drought is well studied, however, response to high temperature and both stresses combination are still limited. We found that dendrobium Sonia Earsakuĺshowed a very high tolerance to drought stress by having pseudobulb organ acting as a reservoir to overcome long-term drought period. The acclimation mechanism was minimizing the stomata opening time only at optimum duration (phase II; 04.00-06.00) to reduce the water loss by transpiration, furthermore, PEPC activity increased when facing drought to capture internal CO2 during stomata closed. While hightemperature stress, in the long term, plants can recover and acclimate to high-temperature stress by opening stomata wider and longer to minimize the effect of heat stress. Aerenchyma structure was found in pseudobulb tissue which believed it helps alleviate high-temperature stress. The stress combination showed the severest symptom both physical and CER since 7 DAT. The acclimation mechanism showed the same pattern as drought stress but was unable to soothe the heat stress due to the limitation of water. From the response to the stresses, minimizing the irrigation water for Dendrobium production is required. The reduction of irrigation was done by either time reduction or changing the irrigation head to a mini springer head and applying irrigation at a different time of the day. We found that the adjusted irrigation method can reduce water consumption up to 71 % compared with regular irrigation. The reduction of water during the dry season did not affect both growth and yield in long-term irrigation applications. Irrigation during dawn and evening time when CAM plants open stomata showed higher total leaf area, leaf fresh and dry weight compared with common irrigation time of farmer which is during the morning till noon when CAM plant stomata closed. For further perspective in terms of breeding technology, CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing is a powerful tool that can achieve the goal by consuming a shorter time. Protoplast transformation by PEG-4000 can shorten the time of testing the selected vector. Our selected pRGEB32 showed high efficiency and found genome editing in the protoplast of Dendrobium Formidible which is able to test in PLBs further. The protoplast extraction in Dendrobium required modification due to the accumulation of mucilage and crystallization inside the flower tissue.
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