Affiliation:
1. Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
2. Fujian Engineering Research Center of Aquatic Breeding and Healthy Aquaculture, Xiamen 361021, China
3. Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Ministry of Agriculture, Xiamen 361021, China
Abstract
Pyropia haitanensis, one of the most economically and ecologically important seaweed species, is often exposed to persistent or transient low irradiance (LI), resulting in limited yield and quality. However, the mechanisms mediating P. haitanensis responses to LI are largely unknown. In this study, LI-tolerant (LIT) and LI-sensitive (LIS) P. haitanensis strains were compared regarding their physiological and transcriptomic changes induced by 1 and 4 days of LI (5 μmol photons/m2·s). The results indicated that the inhibition of photomorphogenesis and decreases in photosynthesis and photosynthetic carbon fixation as the duration of LI increased are the key reasons for retarded blade growth under LI conditions. A potential self-amplifying loop involving calcium signaling, phosphatidylinositol signaling, reactive oxygen species signaling, and MAPK signaling may be triggered in blades in response to LI stress. These signaling pathways might activate various downstream responses, including improving light energy use, maintaining cell membrane stability, mitigating oxidative damage, to resist LI stress. Additionally, the LIT strain maintained transcriptional homeostasis better than the LIS strain under LI stress. Specifically, photosynthesis and energy production were relatively stable in the LIT strain, which may help to explain why the LIT strain was more tolerant to LI stress than the LIS strain. The findings of this study provide the basis for future investigations on the precise mechanisms underlying the LI stress tolerance of P. haitanensis.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Paleontology,Space and Planetary Science,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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