TY - JOUR A1 - Martins, Marina Camara Mattos A1 - Hejazi, Mahdi A1 - Fettke, Jörg A1 - Steup, Martin A1 - Feil, Regina A1 - Krause, Ursula A1 - Arrivault, Stephanie A1 - Vosloh, Daniel A1 - Figueroa, Carlos Maria A1 - Ivakov, Alexander A1 - Yadav, Umesh Prasad A1 - Piques, Maria A1 - Metzner, Daniela A1 - Stitt, Mark A1 - Lunn, John Edward T1 - Feedback inhibition of starch degradation in arabidopsis leaves mediated by trehalose 6-phosphate JF - Plant physiology : an international journal devoted to physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, biophysics and environmental biology of plants N2 - Many plants accumulate substantial starch reserves in their leaves during the day and remobilize them at night to provide carbon and energy for maintenance and growth. In this paper, we explore the role of a sugar-signaling metabolite, trehalose-6-phosphate (Tre6P), in regulating the accumulation and turnover of transitory starch in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) leaves. Ethanol-induced overexpression of trehalose-phosphate synthase during the day increased Tre6P levels up to 11-fold. There was a transient increase in the rate of starch accumulation in the middle of the day, but this was not linked to reductive activation of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase. A 2- to 3-fold increase in Tre6P during the night led to significant inhibition of starch degradation. Maltose and maltotriose did not accumulate, suggesting that Tre6P affects an early step in the pathway of starch degradation in the chloroplasts. Starch granules isolated from induced plants had a higher orthophosphate content than granules from noninduced control plants, consistent either with disruption of the phosphorylation-dephosphorylation cycle that is essential for efficient starch breakdown or with inhibition of starch hydrolysis by beta-amylase. Nonaqueous fractionation of leaves showed that Tre6P is predominantly located in the cytosol, with estimated in vivo Tre6P concentrations of 4 to 7 mu M in the cytosol, 0.2 to 0.5 mu M in the chloroplasts, and 0.05 mu M in the vacuole. It is proposed that Tre6P is a component in a signaling pathway that mediates the feedback regulation of starch breakdown by sucrose, potentially linking starch turnover to demand for sucrose by growing sink organs at night. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.113.226787 SN - 0032-0889 SN - 1532-2548 VL - 163 IS - 3 SP - 1142 EP - 1163 PB - American Society of Plant Physiologists CY - Rockville ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sulpice, Ronan A1 - Pyl, Eva-Theresa A1 - Ishihara, Hirofumi A1 - Trenkamp, Sandra A1 - Steinfath, Matthias A1 - Witucka-Wall, Hanna A1 - Gibon, Yves A1 - Usadel, Björn A1 - Poree, Fabien A1 - Piques, Maria Conceicao A1 - von Korff, Maria A1 - Steinhauser, Marie Caroline A1 - Keurentjes, Joost J. B. A1 - Guenther, Manuela A1 - Hoehne, Melanie A1 - Selbig, Joachim A1 - Fernie, Alisdair R. A1 - Altmann, Thomas A1 - Stitt, Mark T1 - Starch as a major integrator in the regulation of plant growth N2 - Rising demand for food and bioenergy makes it imperative to breed for increased crop yield. Vegetative plant growth could be driven by resource acquisition or developmental programs. Metabolite profiling in 94 Arabidopsis accessions revealed that biomass correlates negatively with many metabolites, especially starch. Starch accumulates in the light and is degraded at night to provide a sustained supply of carbon for growth. Multivariate analysis revealed that starch is an integrator of the overall metabolic response. We hypothesized that this reflects variation in a regulatory network that balances growth with the carbon supply. Transcript profiling in 21 accessions revealed coordinated changes of transcripts of more than 70 carbon-regulated genes and identified 2 genes (myo-inositol-1- phosphate synthase, a Kelch-domain protein) whose transcripts correlate with biomass. The impact of allelic variation at these 2 loci was shown by association mapping, identifying them as candidate lead genes with the potential to increase biomass production. Y1 - 2009 UR - http://www.pnas.org/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903478106 SN - 0027-8424 ER -