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Regulatory Control of Autumn Senescence in Populus tremula
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Plant Physiology. (Stefan Jansson)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8406-6266
2016 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)Alternative title
Regulatorisk kontroll utav höst senescence i asp (Swedish)
Abstract [en]

Autumn senescence is a visually spectacular phenomenon in which trees prepare for the oncoming winter. The mechanism for regulation of autumn senescence in trees has been very hard to pinpoint. In this thesis the main focus is to investigate how autumn senescence is regulated in aspens (Populus tremula).

Previous work has established that autumn senescence in aspens is under daylight control, in this thesis the metabolic status and the effect on autumn senescence was investigated. The metabolic status was altered by girdling which leads to accumulation of photosynthates in the canopy. This resulted in an earlier onset of senescence but also the speed of senescence was changed. At the onset of senescence the girdled trees also accumulated or retained anthocyanins.

The nitrogen status of aspens during autumn senescence was also investigated, we found that high doses of fertilization could significantly delay the onset of senescence. The effects of various nitrogen forms was investigated by delivering organic and inorganic nitrogen through a precision fertilization delivery system that could inject solutes directly into the xylem of the mature aspens. The study showed that addition of nitrate delayed senescence, addition of arginine did not have any effect on the autumn senescence in aspens, and furthermore the nitrate altered the trees leaf metabolism that was more profound in high dosages of supplied nitrate. 

Cytokinins are plant hormones believed to delay or block senescence, studies have suggested that the decrease of cytokinins and/or cytokinin signalling may precede senescence in some plants. To investigate how cytokinin regulates autumn senescence in aspens we profiled 34 cytokinin types in a free growing mature aspen. The study begun before autumn senescence was initiated and ended with the shedding of the leaves, and spanned three consecutive years. The study showed that the individual cytokinin profiles varied significantly between the years, this despite that senescence was initiated at the same time each year. Senescence was furthermore not connected to the depletion of either active or total cytokinins levels. The gene pattern of genes known to be associated with cytokinin was also studied, but no gene expression pattern that the profile generated could explain the onset of senescence. These results suggest that the depletion of cytokinins is unlikely to explain the tightly regulated onset of autumn leaf senescence in aspen.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Umeå: Umeå University , 2016. , p. 52
Keywords [en]
Aspens, Girdling, Anthocyanins, Arginine, Autumn Senescence, Cytokinins, Populus tremula
Keywords [sv]
Asp, Ringbarkning, Antocyanin, Arginin, Höstlöv, Cytokinin, Populus tremula
National Category
Plant Biotechnology
Research subject
Physiological Botany
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-125883ISBN: 978-91-7601-568-1 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-125883DiVA, id: diva2:972503
Public defence
2016-10-11, KB3B1 (Stora Hörsalen), KBC Huset, Umeå, 10:00 (English)
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The Kempe FoundationsSwedish Research CouncilAvailable from: 2016-09-27 Created: 2016-09-21 Last updated: 2018-06-07Bibliographically approved
List of papers
1. Girdling Influence Onset of Senescence and Anthocyanin Expression in Aspen
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(English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
National Category
Botany
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urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-126005 (URN)
Available from: 2016-09-26 Created: 2016-09-26 Last updated: 2018-06-07
2. Nitrate, but not arginine, influence aspen autumn phenology
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(English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
National Category
Botany
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urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-126006 (URN)
Available from: 2016-09-26 Created: 2016-09-26 Last updated: 2018-06-07
3. Contrasting patterns of cytokinins between years in senescing aspen leaves
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2017 (English)In: Plant, Cell and Environment, ISSN 0140-7791, E-ISSN 1365-3040, Vol. 40, p. 622-634Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Cytokinins are plant hormones that typically block or delay leaf senescence. We profiled 34 different cytokinins/cytokinin metabolites (including precursors, conjugates and degradation products) in leaves of a free-growing mature aspen (Populus tremula) before and after the initiation of autumnal senescence over three consecutive years. The levels and profiles of individual cytokinin species, or classes/groups, varied greatly between years, despite the fact that the onset of autumn senescence was at the same time each year, and senescence was not associated with depletion of either active or total cytokinin levels. Levels of aromatic cytokinins (topolins) were low and changed little over the autumn period. Diurnal variations and weather-dependent variations in cytokinin content were relatively limited. We also followed the expression patterns of all aspen genes implicated as having roles in cytokinin metabolism or signaling, but neither the pattern of regulation of any group of genes nor the expression of any particular gene supported the notion that decreased cytokinin signaling could explain the onset of senescence. Based on the results from this tree, we therefore suggest that cytokinin depletion is unlikely to explain the onset of autumn leaf senescence in aspen.

Keywords
Cytokinin, autumn senescence, aspen, Populus tremula, metabolism, gene expression, profiling
National Category
Botany
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-126007 (URN)10.1111/pce.12899 (DOI)000398850200004 ()28042677 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85016598153 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2016-09-26 Created: 2016-09-26 Last updated: 2023-03-23Bibliographically approved

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