中国农业科学 ›› 2016, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (22): 4323-4341.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2016.22.006

• 耕作栽培·生理生化·农业信息技术 • 上一篇    下一篇

作物根系镉滞留作用及其生理生化机制

王学华,戴 力   

  1. 湖南农业大学农学院,长沙 410128
  • 收稿日期:2016-07-25 出版日期:2016-11-16 发布日期:2016-11-16
  • 作者简介:王学华,Tel:13873160151;E-mail:13873160151@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家“十二五”科技支撑计划(2013BAD07B11)

Immobilization Effect and Its Physiology and Biochemical Mechanism of the Cadmium in Crop Roots

WANG Xue-hua, DAI Li   

  1. College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128
  • Received:2016-07-25 Online:2016-11-16 Published:2016-11-16

摘要: 一定程度的镉胁迫严重影响了作物的生长发育和农产品的产量及品质。文中全面综述了重金属镉胁迫对作物和人类的危害,以及镉在作物体内的吸收、转运和积累特征及其相关的主要调控基因和功能。简要概述了作物抗镉耐镉机制,重点讨论了其中的根系镉滞留作用的生理和生化机制。重金属镉主要通过根部吸收进入植株,在根中,Cd2+首先进入由细胞间隙、细胞壁微孔以及细胞壁到质膜之间的空隙等构成的“自由空间”,然后通过主动或被动吸收跨膜进入胞质,再经共质体或质外体途径运输到木质部导管中。水稻等作物主要通过下列途径来适应镉胁迫:细胞壁的滞留作用、原生质体的螯合作用、液泡的区室化作用、逆境蛋白和脯氨酸的积累、抗氧化酶系统活性的提高、根系的滞留作用。根系镉滞留作用作为一种重要的抗耐镉毒害的方式,在调控作物对镉的吸收、转运和分配积累,阻碍镉进入植株地上部和原生质体,减少镉对作物自身生长发育及农产品产量和品质的影响等方面起着非常重要的作用。主要包括根茎间低转运量导致的镉滞留、根系细胞壁滞留和液泡滞留。(1)根茎间低转运量导致的镉滞留。该种滞留作用主要受到根系木质部的镉装载能力和镉长距离运输载体——植物螯合肽(PCs)含量的影响;它们主要受到质膜上跨膜离子转运蛋白HMA2和HMA4以及细胞中的PCs合成酶及其相应基因(如HMA2HMA4PCs1等)的调控。这些蛋白和基因对木质部的镉滞留起到负调控作用。(2)细胞壁滞留作用。根系细胞壁滞留发生在质外体部分(包括细胞壁和胞间层),主要与质外体的组成成分和结构相关,其中起关键作用的是果胶多糖,半纤维素也起到一定作用。根据果胶和半纤维素滞留镉的作用方式的不同,细胞壁滞留作用可分为物理滞留和化学滞留。物理滞留主要与细胞壁的孔隙度和厚度有关,此二者均受到细胞壁果胶含量和果胶甲酯酶PME活性的影响。而化学滞留则是由半纤维素和低酯化果胶上的带负电荷基团,如-COO-等,与Cd2+发生静电结合作用所致。它们会受到PME14XCD1等基因的调控。(3)液泡滞留作用。液泡滞留作用与细胞质和液泡中的PCs以及液泡膜上的转运蛋白密切相关,其对镉的滞留能力大小受到液泡分隔容量大小(VSC)的限制。在液泡的镉滞留中,不同分子量大小的PCs起到了重要作用,它们参与了胞质中镉的螯合、胞质与液泡间镉的转移及最终液泡中镉的沉积。而液泡膜上的转运蛋白则负责将胞质溶液中的低分子量PC-Cd复合物通过主动运输转移到液泡内,使镉被隔离在活跃生理区之外。作物根系中,这三种重金属滞留机制先后联合作用,降低了镉向原生质体和地上部的转移,从而减轻了镉对地上部的毒害,降低了籽实等收获器官中的镉含量。然而,由于木质部中PC-Cd占总镉比例以及细胞壁电荷总量和液泡VSC大小的有限性,从而使得根系镉滞留作用的强度和效果都存在着一定的限度。

关键词: 根系, 镉, 滞留作用, 植物螯合肽, 细胞壁

Abstract: A certain degree of cadmium stress has seriously influenced crop growth, development, yield and quality of farm produce. In this review, the authors comprehensively summarized the damages of Cd to crops and a human being, and the characteristics of the Cd absorption, transport and accumulation as well as their dependent main regulatory genes and their functions. The resistant and tolerant mechanisms of crops to the Cd toxicity were simply summarized, while the physiology and biochemical mechanism of the root cadmium immobilization effect which was one of them were emphatically introduced. The Cd got into the plant via the root absorption mostly, and in the root, the Cd2+ entered the “free space” firstly, which is constituted by the cell space, the cell wall micropore and the space between cell wall and plasma membrane, afterwards, passed through the plasma membrane into the cytoplasm by the way of active or passive absorption, and then were transported into the xylem vessel through symplast or apoplast pathway. Rice and others crops mainly use the following ways to adapt the Cd stress: the retention effect of cell wall, the chelation effect in symplast, the compartmentation effect of vacuole, the accumulation of stress protein and proline, the enhancement of antioxidase system activity and the immobilization effect of the root. As an important way to resist and tolerate the cadmium toxicity, the immobilization effect of cadmium in crop root plays a crucial role in regulating the Cd absorption, transport, distribution and accumulation in crop, preventing Cd entering into bioplasts and shoots of plant, and reducing the harm of Cd to the growth and development of the crop and the yield and quality of the farm produce. It mainly contains the retention caused by the low root-to-shoot Cd transport volume, the cell wall and the vacuolar. (i) The retention caused by the low root-to-shoot Cd transport volume. This retention effect is mostly influenced by the xylem Cd loading capacity of the root and the content of the cadmium long distance transport carrier – phytochelatins (PCs); and they were controlled by the ion transporter HMA2 and HMA4 on plasma membrane and the PCs synthetase in cell and their relevant regulatory genes, such as HMA2, HMA4 and PCs1. And they have a negative regulation to the Cd retention in the xylem. (ii) The cell wall immobilization effect. This effect happens in the apoplast (including the cell wall and intercellular layer) of the root cell, and is mainly related to the component and structure of the apoplast, and in which the pectin has played a key role, moreover, the hemicellulose also has some effect in it. On the basis of the different action way in the pectin and hemicellulose Cd retention, the cell wall immobilization effect can be divided into physical immobilization (PIB) and chemical immobilization (CIB). The PIB is mostly related to the pectin content and the pectin methyl esterase (PME) activity. While, the CIB is the result of electrostatic binding effect between the Cd2+ and carboxyl group or other groups with negative charge on the pectin, hemicellulose and other components of the cell wall. And they were controlled by the genes like PME14 and XCD1. (iii) The vacuole immobilization effect. This effect is closely related to the PCs in the cytoplasm and the vacuole, as well as the transport protein on the tonoplast; and its retention ability to Cd is restricted by the vacuolar sequestration capacity (VSC). In the vacuole Cd immobilization, the PCs with different molecular weight play an important part, they participated in the chelation of Cd in the cytoplasm, the Cd transformation between cytoplasm and vacuole, and the Cd sedimentation in the vacuole finally. At the same time, the transport proteins on the tonoplast are in charge of transferring the low molecular weigh PC-Cd compound from cytoplasm solution into the vacuole through active transport, making the Cd insulated. In crop roots, the successively combined action of the three immobilization effects has reduced the cadmium transfer amount from the root to shoot, then eased the pernicious effects of the Cd to the shoot, and decreased the content in the crop harvesting organs like grain. However, due to the finiteness of the percentage of PC-Cd in the general Cd number, the total charge number of the cell wall and the VSC of vacuole, making the intensity and effectiveness of the root-Cd-retention effects are limited to a certain degree.

Key words: root, cadmium, immobilization effect, phytochelatins, cell wall