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Rapid Responses of Plants to Boron Deprivation

Where are the links between boron’s primary role and secondary reactions?

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Boron in Plant and Animal Nutrition

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B deficiency has been described to affect a wide range of processes in plants, ranging from metabolism of nucleic acids, protein synthesis, metabolism and transport of carbohydrates, chemistry and physics of cell walls, synthesis and transport of plant hormones (especially IAA), regulation of plasma membrane-bound ATPase and oxido-reductase activities, as well as synthesis and metabolism of phenolics and incidence of oxidative damage of membranes, (for reviews see e.g. Goldbach, 1997; Blevins and Lucaszewski, 1998; Bell et al., 2001, this volume). Considering that many observations started at least several hours or even days and weeks after B deprivation, and taking into account that recent reports point to very rapid reactions within minutes (Findeklee and Goldbach, 1996; Findeklee et al., 1997; Mühling et al., 1998; Wimmer and Goldbach, 1999), it is intriguing to explore the sequence of responses to B deprivation. Below, we summarise effects which have been observed within the first minutes to few hours of B deficiency and discuss how these early responses may be linked to the expression of secondary reactions or symptoms in the light of recent observations.

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  1. Agrikulturchemisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Karlrobert-Kreiten-Str. 13, D 53115, Bonn, Germany

    Heiner E. Goldbach, Monika A. Wimmer & Qin Yu

  2. Department of Pomology, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Monika A. Wimmer

  3. Physiogical Biochemistry Unit, Université Catholique de Louvain, Croix du Sud 2-20, B-1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (F.C.)

    François Chaumont

  4. Laboratory of Plant Nutrition, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-01, Japan

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  5. Institut für Botanik, Universitat Bonn, Kirschallee 1, D 53115, Bonn, Germany

    Dieter Volkmann & František Baluška

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    Ruth Wingender & Marion Schulz

  7. W.A. Herbicide Resistance Initiative, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, 690, Australia

    Qin Yu

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Goldbach, H.E. et al. (2002). Rapid Responses of Plants to Boron Deprivation. In: Goldbach, H.E., Brown, P.H., Rerkasem, B., Thellier, M., Wimmer, M.A., Bell, R.W. (eds) Boron in Plant and Animal Nutrition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0607-2_15

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