Role of ABA in Plant Growth: Comparison
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Abscisic acid (ABA) regulates various aspects of plant physiology, including promoting seed dormancy and adaptive responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. Growth regulation by ABA is both promotive and inhibitive, depending on the context, such as concentrations, tissues, and environmental conditions. 

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1. Introduction

The sesquiterpenoid hormone abscisic acid (ABA) regulates numerous plant processes, including growth and development [1]. ABA plays a well-characterized role in promoting seed and bud dormancy, as well as regulating stress responses in various plant species [2,3,4][2][3][4]. During dormancy establishment and following stress, ABA levels sharply increase leading to inhibition of germination and growth arrest to mount a stress response. However, in well-watered plants, basal amounts of ABA are required to promote growth and development of various organs and tissues [5,6][5][6].

2. Role of ABA in Plant Growth

ABA-mediated growth regulation involves crosstalk with other hormones and nutritional signaling, to regulate various aspects of cellular growth, including cell division, enlargement, differentiation, and central metabolism. Our understanding of how ABA regulates cellular growth is still fragmental.

2.1. Growth Inhibition by Basal ABA

The outcome of basal ABA in growth inhibition should be seen as growth promotion in ABA-deficient and insensitive mutants. Growth promotion of these mutants is observed in local tissues or under particular conditions. Hyponastic growth is the upward bending of leaves that involves growth promotion of cells at the abaxial side. This growth is an adaptive strategy of plants to changing environments, such as submergence and shade avoidance [100][7]. In Arabidopsis, ABA-deficient (aba1, aba2, aba3) and ABA-insensitive (abi1, abi3) mutants show enhanced hyponastic growth of petioles, which are visible as increases in petiole angles [59][8]. The petiole angle of the wild type decreases when exogenous ABA is applied. Whereas the application of fluridone, an inhibitor of phytoene desaturases to block metabolite accumulation upstream of ABA biosynthesis, increases the petiole angle. The local growth inhibition by ABA at the petiole is antagonistic to ethylene, which promotes hyponastic growth [59][8] (Figure 1). It is noteworthy that different Arabidopsis accessions display differential growth responses to these hormones [59][8]. In Rumex, hyponastic growth is a critical avoidance response to complete submergence [101][9]. Submergence-induced ABA decreases are a critical step to elongate the shoot in flooding tolerance [102][10]. The decrease of ABA under submergence is a prerequisite for ethylene and gibberellin action [101][9]. The shoot growth of osaba1 is enhanced compared with wild type when rice seedlings are submerged [99][11]. Submergence-induced rapid decrease of ABA is associated with the induction of OsABA8ox1 encoding ABA 8′-hydroxylase [99][11]. Importantly, submergence-induced ABA decrease is ethylene dependent (Figure 1).

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Figure 1. Regulation of plant growth by ABA and Ethylene antagonism. ABA and ethylene function in a mutually antagonistic way to regulate various aspects of plant growth. A prerequisite for shoot elongation in rice is ABA catabolism, which requires ethylene action. High concentrations of glucose are known to result in the growth arrest of Arabidopsis seedlings. This arrest depends on ABA synthesis and signaling and is antagonized by ethylene. Ethylene accumulation is thought to inhibit vegetative growth. One key role of basal ABA is to inhibit ethylene biosynthesis in growing plants. Ethylene signaling promotes hyponastic responses in Arabidopsis, which are antagonized by ABA. Figure created with BioRender (https://biorender.com/, accessed on 27 November 2021).

Some ABA-deficient and insensitive mutants of rice show enhanced growth. Rice osaba2 mutants defective in the xanthoxin dehydrogenase are viable in standard conditions. Interestingly, the plant heights of these mutants are taller than wild type, which is a typical and expected phenotype of mutants defective in growth inhibitors [13][12]. Although showing excessive growth, the osaba2 mutants do not appear to be healthy. These mutants were identified as a lesion mimic mutant showing spontaneous cell death with an overaccumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). The phenotype of osaba2 mutants indicates basal ABA plays a role in suppressing ROS production and growth under normal conditions. Some multigenic mutants of rice ABA receptors show increased growth compared to wild type [36][13].

One explanation for the stunted growth of ABA-related mutants is an increased sensitivity to environmental factors. Mutants are exposed to stresses more sensitively than wild type due to a lack of stress resistance mechanisms. ABA-deficient mutants of tomato grow faster and taller with an increased number of leaves when grown under mist [84][14]. Similarly, Arabidopsis ABA-deficient aba2 mutant and snrk2 triple mutants show enhanced growth on agar plates, which are relatively humid compared to standard soil conditions [67][15]. Excess growth of aba2 and snrk2 triple mutants is associated with increased respiration through the tricarboxylic acid cycle [67][15]. In ABA-deficient mutants of both tomato and Arabidopsis, a characteristic aspect of growth enhancement is the increase in the leaf numbers [67,84][15][14]. Initiation of leaf formation is a well-controlled process and used for determining biological time for flowering. It is particularly interesting to understand the mechanism of how basal ABA regulates leaf initiation. Interestingly, the increased leaf number was not observed in an ABA-insensitive quadruple areb mutant, suggesting that the ABA signaling to negatively regulate leaf initiation is SnRK2-dependent, but independent of AREB-mediated transcription [67][15].

High concentrations of exogenous ABA inhibit lateral root (LR) growth in Arabidopsis [104][16]. Ethylene and auxin act downstream of ABA in the regulation of Arabidopsis root elongation [104][16]. Arabidopsis ABI4 AP2 TFs play an important role in inhibiting LR growth [82][17]. The abi4 mutant enhanced LR formation and growth, which is characterized by increased LR density and elongated LRs. This mechanism involves counteracting ABA and CK action to regulate expression of ABI4, which in turn disturbs auxin transport [82][17]. As mentioned above, tomato sit and pea wilty mutants increase LR, indicating low concentrations of ABA can inhibit the formation of LR [94][18]. The mechanism for ABA-mediated inhibition of LR growth is dynamic and alters depending on time. The inhibition of wild-type LR growth is alleviated by a prolonged ABA treatment, while this recovery is delayed in the pyl8 mutant [105][19]. This indicates that PYL8 is required for the recovery of LR growth from ABA inhibition in a prolonged period. This involves the PYL8-MYB77 interaction to induce auxin-responsive genes independently of SnRK2 [105][19]. Consistent with this mechanism, application of auxin rescued the delayed recovery phenotype of the pyl8 mutant [105][19].

2.2. Growth Promotion by ABA

Unsurprisingly, there are ample reports indicating a role for ABA in growth promotion [5]. In this section, we summarize the negative effect of ABA deficiency and insensitivity on growth. The promotive effect of ABA on growth should be observed as smaller plants when ABA biosynthesis or signaling is genetically blocked. Importantly, applying low concentrations of exogenous ABA rescues the stunted growth of ABA-deficient mutants [68,85][20][21]. ABA-deficient Arabidopsis and tomato mutants show a stunted shoot growth and reduced fresh weight compared to wild type [60,65,77,95][22][23][24][25]. Furthermore, ABA-insensitive Arabidopsis lines such as higher order pyl112458 sextuple, pyl duodecuple mutants and snrk2.2 snrk2.3 snrk2.6 mutants also display the dwarfed plant phenotype [32,35,37][26][27][28]. In agreement with this, Arabidopsis plants overexpressing SnRK2.6 were shown to have an increase in biomass compared to wildtype [106][29]. One cause of the stunted growth in ABA-related mutants is due to an overproduction of ethylene (Figure 1). Ethylene overproduction is observed in ABA-deficient mutants of tomato and Arabidopsis [69,85,86][30][21][31]. Blocking ethylene action by genetically introducing ethylene insensitivity partially reverts the stunted shoot growth of these ABA-deficient mutants [68,69,85][20][30][21]. This indicates that a role of basal ABA in the promotion of growth is to negatively regulate ethylene biosynthesis. The same mechanism is also applicable to maize root growth under low water potential [98][32]. Importantly, the authors conclude that ABA-mediated ethylene suppression is only part of its effect on vegetative growth; there also exists an ethylene-independent role for ABA. A positive role of ABA in the primary root growth is to properly maintain the root meristem. This involves two modes of action; inhibiting cell division of quiescent centre (QC) and suppressing stem cell differentiation, both of which are required for proper meristem functions [61][33]. Both ABA-deficient (aba1, aba2, aba3) and insensitive (abi1-1, abi2-1, abi3 and abi5, but not abi4) mutants show enhanced cell division in QC. Importantly, the treatment of an ABA biosynthesis inhibitor fluridone also enhances cell division in QC, which is reversed by co-application of a low concentration of ABA [61][33]. A pharmacological experiment suggests that ABA-mediated inhibition of QC cell division is independent of ethylene, although ethylene promotes cell division in QC [61][33]. Grafting experiments indicate that shoot-derived ABA regulates root growth that involves inhibition of LR development and increased root to shoot ratio [94][18]. The roots of ABA-deficient mutants have increased indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) levels, suggesting the function of ABA to promote root growth involves the decrease the root auxin levels [94][18]. In Arabidopsis, the regulation of root elongation by exogenous ABA is biphasic. Low concentrations of exogenous ABA promote root growth, while high concentrations inhibit root growth [107][34]. Hypocotyl growth is achieved solely by cell elongation [108][35]. The hypocotyl elongates in the dark, while its growth is inhibited in the light. This dark-induced mode of growth is termed skotomorphogenesis. Humplik et al. (2015) reported that etiolated seedlings of sit and not mutants show short hypocotyls [87][36]. These phenotypes are rescued by applying low doses of exogenous ABA, suggesting that these processes are associated with the growth promotion by ABA in darkness. The short hypocotyl phenotype of Arabidopsis ABA-deficient mutants is also rescued by the application of low concentrations of ABA [62][37]. In these tomato and Arabidopsis mutants, authors discuss a defect in cell differentiation or faulty induction of cell expansion. Tomato ABA-deficient mutants show decreased expression of SlKRP1 and SlKRP3, blocked endoreduplication, and elevated CKs. In Arabidopsis, ABA induces the expression of ICK1/KRP1, which is thought to antagonize CDKA [109][38]. In plants impaired in ABA biosynthesis or signal transduction, endoreduplication is affected, resulting in reduced cell expansion. This may be a cause of the reduced rosette size in ABA-deficient and insensitive lines. ABA promotes fruit growth and maturation. Fruit ripening is categorized into two types; climacteric and non-climacteric, based on the nature of respiration and ethylene dependence. ABA promotes both climacteric and non-climacteric fruit ripening [110,111][39][40]. In tomato, a climacteric fruit, ripening is accelerated by knock-down of a negative regulator of ABA signaling, SlPP2C1, or by overexpressing an ABA receptor, SlPYL9 [112,113][41][42]. Pharmacological experiments demonstrate that ABA promotes tomato fruit ripening via induction of ethylene synthesis [114][43]. Consistently, SlPP2C1 RNAi lines show earlier ethylene production [112][41]. On the other hand, flc and flc not mutants produced smaller fruits [86][31]. This indicates that ABA promotes fruit growth. Interestingly, fruits of the severe ABA-deficient flc not double mutant, but not the flc single mutant, over-produce ethylene. This indicates that basal ABA blocks ethylene over-production, which is opposite to the induction of ethylene synthesis by ABA signaling reported in Zhang et al. (2018) [112][41]. Thus, crosstalk between ABA and ethylene can be positive or negative, depending on the type of tissue or stage of development studied. Aside from stomatal-dependent gas exchange influencing photosynthesis, ABA regulates central metabolism and nutritional signaling, such as carbon metabolism and sugar signaling. Genetic screening for glucose-mediated inhibition of Arabidopsis seedling growth identified aba2 and abi4 mutants as glucose insensitive [70][44]. This indicates that glucose mediated growth inhibition requires ABA biosynthesis and ABI4 function. This ABA-mediated growth inhibition is antagonized by ethylene signaling [89][45] (Figure 1). ABA regulates carbon metabolism and transport that impacts growth. High concentrations of ABA mimic stress conditions, which negatively regulate photosynthesis and carbon assimilation. This is supported by down-regulation of nuclear and chloroplast encoded photosynthesis genes by exogenous ABA [1,115,116][1][46][47]. Also, ABA application promotes accumulation of soluble sugars [117][48]. ABA Moreover, overexpression of apple MdAREB2 induces expression of MdSUT2, a sucrose transporter gene, via direct binding to its promoter [118][49]. On the other hand, the role of basal ABA on photosynthesis is controversial, possibly depending on the context. Tomato sit mutants show an increased net assimilation rate when compared with wild type under non-stressed conditions [92][50]. Tomato fla and barley Az34 both have a defect in MoCo biosynthesis, which decreased net assimilation rates [93][51]. Moreover, it is differentially affected by relative humidity in which net assimilation of Az34, but not fla, is negatively affected by low humidity. The Arabidopsis aba1 mutants show a decreased photosynthesis (PSII) activity [8][52]. One characteristic phenotype of ABA-deficient mutants is a defect in chloroplast biogenesis. Arabidopsis aba1 mutants show an increased number of chloroplasts with aberrant ultrastructure [8,10][52][53]. The aba1 mutants over-accumulate zeaxanthin and disturb the xanthophyll content, which may affect chloroplast biogenesis and function. The increase of chloroplast numbers and its aberrant ultrastructure can also be seen in the tomato high-pigment3 (hp3) mutant defective in ZEP. Interestingly, similar defects in chloroplast biogenesis can also be seen in fla and sit mutants of tomato [10][53]. These indicate that basal ABA, rather than zeaxanthin over-accumulation, is required for maintaining proper chloroplast biogenesis and functions. It will be interesting to investigate how disturbed chloroplast biogenesis impacts plant growth as well as sugar and energy metabolism in ABA-related mutants under both non-stressed and stressed conditions.

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