Barley sodium content is regulated by natural variants of the Na+ transporter HvHKT1;5

Kelly Houston; Jiaen Qiu; Stefanie Wege; Maria Hrmova; Helena Oakey; Yue Qu; Pauline Smith; Apriadi Situmorang; Malcolm Macaulay; Paulina Flis; Micha Bayer; Stuart Roy; Claire Halpin; Joanne Russell; Miriam Schreiber; Caitlin Byrt; Matt Gilliham; David E. Salt; Robbie Waugh

doi:10.1038/s42003-020-0990-5

Barley sodium content is regulated by natural variants of the Na+ transporter HvHKT1;5

Kelly Houston, Jiaen Qiu, Stefanie Wege, Maria Hrmova, Helena Oakey, Yue Qu, Pauline Smith, Apriadi Situmorang, Malcolm Macaulay, Paulina Flis, Micha Bayer, Stuart Roy, Claire Halpin, Joanne Russell, Miriam Schreiber, Caitlin Byrt, Matt Gilliham (Lead / Corresponding author), David E. Salt (Lead / Corresponding author), Robbie Waugh (Lead / Corresponding author)

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During plant growth, sodium (Na+) in the soil is transported via the xylem from the root to the shoot. While excess Na+ is toxic to most plants, non-toxic concentrations have been shown to improve crop yields under certain conditions, such as when soil K+ is low. We quantified grain Na+ across a barley genome-wide association study panel grown under non-saline conditions and identified variants of a Class 1 HIGH-AFFINITY-POTASSIUM-TRANSPORTER (HvHKT1;5)-encoding gene responsible for Na+ content variation under these conditions. A leucine to proline substitution at position 189 (L189P) in HvHKT1;5 disturbs its characteristic plasma membrane localisation and disrupts Na+ transport. Under low and moderate soil Na+, genotypes containing HvHKT1:5P189 accumulate high concentrations of Na+ but exhibit no evidence of toxicity. As the frequency of HvHKT1:5P189 increases significantly in cultivated European germplasm, we cautiously speculate that this non-functional variant may enhance yield potential in non-saline environments, possibly by offsetting limitations of low available K+.

Original language	English
Article number	258
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	Communications Biology
Volume	3
Issue number	1
Early online date	22 May 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0990-5
Publication status	Published - Dec 2020

Keywords

Abiotic
Agricultural genetics
Plant genetics
Salt

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
Medicine (miscellaneous)

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Houston, K., Qiu, J., Wege, S., Hrmova, M., Oakey, H., Qu, Y., Smith, P., Situmorang, A., Macaulay, M., Flis, P., Bayer, M., Roy, S., Halpin, C., Russell, J., Schreiber, M., Byrt, C., Gilliham, M., Salt, D. E., & Waugh, R. (2020). Barley sodium content is regulated by natural variants of the Na+ transporter HvHKT1;5. Communications Biology, 3(1), 1-9. Article 258. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0990-5

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Barley sodium content is regulated by natural variants of the Na+ transporter HvHKT1;5

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