Differential transpiration between pods and leaves during stress combination in soybean

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DOI: 10.1101/2022.12.20.521196 Publication Date: 2022-12-21T01:05:36Z
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ABSTRACTClimate change is causing an increase in the frequency and intensity of droughts, heat waves, and their combinations, diminishing agricultural productivity and destabilizing societies worldwide. We recently reported that during a combination of water deficit (WD) and heat stress (HS) stomata on leaves of soybean plants are closed, while stomata on flowers are open. This unique stomatal response was accompanied by differential transpiration (higher in flowers, while lower in leaves) that cooled flowers during a combination of WD+HS. Here we reveal that developing pods of soybean plants subjected to a combination of WD+HS use a similar acclimation strategy of differential transpiration to reduce internal pod temperature by about 4°C. We further show that enhanced expression of transcripts involved in abscisic acid degradation accompanies this response, and that preventing pod transpiration by sealing stomata causes a significant increase in internal pod temperature. Using an RNA-Seq analysis of pods developing on plants subjected to WD+HS, we also show that the response of pods to WD, HS, or WD+HS is distinct from that of leaves or flowers. Interestingly, we report that although flower, pod and seed numbers per plant are decreased under conditions of WD+HS, seed mass of plants subjected to WD+HS is larger than that of plants subjected to HS, and number of seeds with suppressed/aborted development is lower in WD+HS compared to HS. Taken together our findings reveal that differential transpiration occurs in pods of soybean plants subjected to WD+HS and that this process limits heat-induced damage to seed production.One sentence summaryDifferential transpiration between pods and leaves of soybean plants subjected to a combination of water deficit and heat stress buffers internal pod temperature.
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