High productivity in hybrid-poplar plantations without isoprene emission to the atmosphere

Hybrid-poplar tree plantations provide a source for biofuel and biomass, but they also increase forest isoprene emissions. The consequences of increased isoprene emissions include higher rates of tropospheric ozone production, increases in the lifetime of methane, and increases in atmospheric aeroso...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Jg. 117; H. 3; S. 1596
Hauptverfasser: Monson, Russell K, Winkler, Barbro, Rosenstiel, Todd N, Block, Katja, Merl-Pham, Juliane, Strauss, Steven H, Ault, Kori, Maxfield, Jason, Moore, David J P, Trahan, Nicole A, Neice, Amberly A, Shiach, Ian, Barron-Gafford, Greg A, Ibsen, Peter, McCorkel, Joel T, Bernhardt, Jörg, Schnitzler, Joerg-Peter
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States 21.01.2020
Schlagworte:
Air Pollution
Arizona
Atmosphere
Biofuels
Biomass
Butadienes
Carbon Dioxide - metabolism
Carotenoids - metabolism
Climate
Hemiterpenes - biosynthesis
Hybridization, Genetic
Oregon
Photosynthesis
Plant Leaves - metabolism
Plant Shoots - genetics
Plant Shoots - growth & development
Plants, Genetically Modified - metabolism
Populus - genetics
Populus - growth & development
Populus - metabolism
Proteome
RNA Interference
Seasons
Stress, Physiological
Terpenes - metabolism
Thermotolerance - physiology
Wood
Oregon
Arizona
genetically modified organism
hydroxyl radical
thermotolerance
biofuel
oxidative stress
ISSN:1091-6490, 1091-6490
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Zusammenfassung:Hybrid-poplar tree plantations provide a source for biofuel and biomass, but they also increase forest isoprene emissions. The consequences of increased isoprene emissions include higher rates of tropospheric ozone production, increases in the lifetime of methane, and increases in atmospheric aerosol production, all of which affect the global energy budget and/or lead to the degradation of air quality. Using RNA interference (RNAi) to suppress isoprene emission, we show that this trait, which is thought to be required for the tolerance of abiotic stress, is not required for high rates of photosynthesis and woody biomass production in the agroforest plantation environment, even in areas with high levels of climatic stress. Biomass production over 4 y in plantations in Arizona and Oregon was similar among genetic lines that emitted or did not emit significant amounts of isoprene. Lines that had substantially reduced isoprene emission rates also showed decreases in flavonol pigments, which reduce oxidative damage during extremes of abiotic stress, a pattern that would be expected to amplify metabolic dysfunction in the absence of isoprene production in stress-prone climate regimes. However, compensatory increases in the expression of other proteomic components, especially those associated with the production of protective compounds, such as carotenoids and terpenoids, and the fact that most biomass is produced prior to the hottest and driest part of the growing season explain the observed pattern of high biomass production with low isoprene emission. Our results show that it is possible to reduce the deleterious influences of isoprene on the atmosphere, while sustaining woody biomass production in temperate agroforest plantations.
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ISSN:1091-6490
1091-6490
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1912327117