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Screening technology for quantitiative isotope experiments 3
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Address of corresponding author: Institute of Systems Biotechnology, Saarland 5
University, Campus A1.5, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany, Phone: +49-681-302-6
71971, Fax: +49-681-302-71972, Email: [email protected] 7
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Research area: Breakthrough Technologies 9
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High-throughput plant metabolic profiling by stable 12
isotope labelling and combustion isotope ratio mass 13
spectrometry: In vivo assimilation and molecular re-14
allocation of carbon and nitrogen in rice 15
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Lisa Maria Dersch1, Veronique Beckers1, Detlev Rasch2, Guido 18 Melzer2, Christoph Bolten2, Katina Kiep2, Horst Becker3, Oliver 19 Ernst Bläsing4, Regine Fuchs4, Thomas Ehrhardt4 and Christoph 20 Wittmann1,* 21 22 23 24 1 Institute of Systems Biotechnology, Saarland University, Germany 25 2 Institute of Biochemical Engineering, University of Technology Braunschweig, 26
Germany 27 3 BASF SE, Limburgerhof, Germany 28 4 Metanomics GmbH, Berlin, Germany 29 30 31
32 * Address of corresponding author: Institute for Systems Biotechnology, Saarland 33 University, Campus A1.5, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany, Phone: +49-681 302 34 71971, Fax: +49-681 302 71972, E-mail: [email protected] 35 36 37 38 Summary: 39 Stable isotopic labelling combined with combustion isotope ratio mass spectrometry 40 elucidates metabolic properties of whole plants under strictly controlled physiological 41 conditions. 42
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• Present addresses: 51
Guido Melzer: Sandoz GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 52
Christoph Bolten: Nestlé Suisse S.A., La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland 53
Katina Kiep: Evonik Industries AG, Essen, Germany 54
• Corresponding author: Christoph Wittmann, E-mail: christoph.wittmann@uni-55
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Abstract 57
Here, we demonstrate whole plant metabolic profiling by stable isotope labelling and 58
combustion isotope-ratio mass spectrometry for precise quantification of 59
assimilation, translocation and molecular reallocation of 13CO2 and 15NH4NO3. The 60
technology was applied to Oryza sativa plants at different growth stages. For adult 61
plants, 13CO2 labelling revealed enhanced carbon assimilation of the flag leaf from 62
flowering to late grain filling stage, linked to efficient translocation into the panicle. 63
Simultaneous 13CO2 and 15NH4NO3 labelling with hydroponically-grown seedlings 64
were used to quantify the relative distribution of carbon and nitrogen. Two hours 65
after labelling, assimilated carbon was mainly retained in the shoot (69%), whereas 66
7% entered the root and 24% was respired. Nitrogen, taken up via the root, was 67
largely translocated into the shoot (85%). Salt stressed seedlings showed 68
decreased uptake and translocation of nitrogen (69%), whereas carbon metabolism 69
was unaffected. Coupled to a gas chromatograph, labelling analysis provided 70
enrichment of proteinogenic amino acids. This revealed significant protein synthesis 71
in the panicle of adult plants, whereas protein biosynthesis in adult leaves was 72
eightfold lower than that in seedling shoots. Generally, amino acid enrichment was 73
similar among biosynthetic families and allowed to infer labelling dynamics of their 74
precursors. On this basis, early and strong 13C enrichment of Embden-Meyerhof-75
Parnas pathway and pentose phosphate pathway intermediates indicated high 76
activity of these routes. Applied to mode-of-action analysis of herbicides, the 77
approach showed severe disturbance in the synthesis of branched-chain amino 78
acids upon treatment with imazapyr. The established technology displays a 79
breakthrough for quantitiative high-throughput plant metabolic phenotyping. 80
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Key words: GC-C-IRMS, Metabolic Flux Analysis, Oryza sativa, Pulse, Rice, Salt 82
Stress, Whole Plant, 13C, 15N 83
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Introduction 86
Metabolically engineered crops are highly desired to ensure global food supply 87
(Khush, 2003) and to produce various chemicals and materials (Fischer and Emans, 88
2000; Sharma and Sharma, 2009). Without doubt, tailored plant metabolic 89
engineering requires a good knowledge of the underlying metabolism. This explains 90
the strong interest in tools and technologies to analyze plants on the systems level. 91
Particularly, analysis of plant metabolic pathways and intracellular fluxes by means 92
of isotope experiments, coupled to MS and NMR (Ratcliffe and Shachar-Hill, 2006; 93
Young et al., 2011), has predictive power for metabolic engineering (Kruger and 94
Ratcliffe, 2009; Shachar-Hill, 2013). Such analyses, reported for cell suspension 95
cultures (Rontein et al., 2002; Kruger et al., 2007; Williams et al., 2008), and isolated 96
plant organs like leaves (Schaefer et al., 1980; Cegelski and Schaefer, 2005; 97
Hasunuma et al., 2010), tubers (Roessner-Tunali et al., 2004) and seeds 98
(Schwender et al., 2003; Junker et al., 2007), provide valuable insight into 99
metabolism, but fail to describe the behaviour of intact, whole plants (Allen et al., 100
2009), which is necessary to give a systemic picture of metabolic functions under 101
physiologically relevant conditions (Cliquet et al., 1990; Römisch-Margl et al., 2007). 102
This is overcome by performing isotope labelling experiments in entire plants, 103
preferably using 13CO2, a far safer tracer compound than its radiolabelled equivalent 104 14CO2 (Römisch-Margl et al., 2007), combined with labelling analysis by MS and 105
NMR (Chen et al., 2011). Such experiments, however, suffer from extended 106
labelling time periods up to several hours or even days (Hutchinson et al., 1975; 107
Nouchi et al., 1994; Wu et al., 2009) and CO2 concentrations beyond natural 108
abundance to reach detectable amounts of enrichment (Römisch-Margl et al., 2007). 109
As example, the application of elevated CO2 levels can induce changes in plant 110
metabolism, e.g. sink:source ratios, photosynthetic activity and respiration, thereby 111
affecting carbon sequestration and growth (Arp, 1991; Zhu et al., 2014). Compared 112
to conventional MS (0.05 atom%) and NMR, combustion isotope ratio mass 113
spectrometry (C-IRMS) provides a far higher precision (0.0002 atom%) (Meier-114
Augenstein, 1999b), which makes this technique particularly attractive to analyse 115
plants at low enrichment. The high precision of C-IRMS even allows for metabolic 116
studies without preceding tracer application (Tcherkez et al., 2003; Yousfi et al., 117
2012; Yousfi et al., 2013). Selected applications, which coupled C-IRMS with 118
elemental analysis (EA) have been used to trace turnover and incorporation 119
processes in plants (Cliquet et al., 1990; Dyckmans et al., 2000; Nogués et al., 120
2004), as well as to analyse plant interactions with the soil microbial community 121
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(Griffiths et al., 2004; Leake et al., 2006; Wu et al., 2009). With the availability of 122
GC-coupled isotope ratio MS (GC-C-IRMS), enrichment analysis could be targeted 123
to individual metabolic compounds, like sugars, fatty acids and amino acids (Derrien 124
et al., 2004; Olsson et al., 2005; Molero et al., 2011; Lattanzi et al., 2012). 125
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Here, we describe a novel approach, which combines 13C- and 15N-based whole 127
plant studies with subsequent labelling analysis of entire plants, plant tissues and 128
individual metabolites using EA-C-IRMS and GC-C-IRMS for in vivo metabolic 129
fingerprinting of the model crop Oryza sativa under physiologically relevant 130
conditions. For the isotope experiments, specific labelling reactors were designed 131
and constructed, which allowed precise 13C-pulse labelling of plants as well as 132
simultaneous 13C and 15N tracing under well-defined environmental conditions. This 133
offered a major benefit compared to previous studies: the applicability of 134
physiological concentrations of 13CO2 and short labelling periods under highly 135
controlled conditions regarding light, temperature and humidity. The developed 136
approach was applied to compare rice plants at different developmental stages, 137
concerning assimilation, translocation and incorporation of label into metabolic 138
intermediates after single or double labelling with 13CO2 and 15NH4NO3. Particularly, 139
studies combining 13C and 15N label detection in plants are rare so far (Cliquet et al., 140
1990; Dyckmans et al., 2000). Thereby, the interaction of C/N metabolism and 141
relevant sink:source relations of individual plant organs were studied. Furthermore, 142
a stress-induced phenotype was investigated by exposing rice seedlings to high 143
salinity, a major abiotic stress. The examination of the mode-of-action of herbicide 144
treatment further underlined the high potential of the technique to reliably quantify 145
metabolic variation. The developed technology provides plant metabolic engineers 146
with a sophisticated tool for fast screening and metabolic profiling of distinct 147
phenotypes, which perfectly complements more demanding isotopically non-148
stationary metabolic flux analysis (Szecowka et al., 2013; Ma et al., 2014) to get a 149
comprehensive picture of plant metabolic functions. 150
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Results 152
Construction of labelling reactors and experimental design. Three sizes and 153
types of labelling reactor were designed, constructed and validated to evaluate their 154
suitability for in vivo 13C labelling studies (Fig. 1): two tube reactors for 13CO2 studies 155
with soil-grown adult plants (250 L) and seedlings (100 L), respectively, and a box 156
reactor for combined 13CO2 and 15NH4NO3 labelling studies with hydroponic 157
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seedlings (125 L). For all reactors, the used wall material allowed full transmission of 158
light (Fig. S1) and temperature and humidity could be maintained at desired values 159
(Fig. S2). Hence, the reactors allowed plants to be labelled under the same light, 160
temperature and humidity regimen that they were exposed to during growth in a 161
research plant growth cabinet (phyto chamber). Immediate replacement of ambient 162
CO2 by an equimolar level of 13CO2 was realized by an absorber unit connected to 163
the reactor. A first set of experiments with soil-grown rice seedlings was conducted 164
to identify the optimum conditions regarding supply of tracer (400 µL L-1, 700 µL L-1 165 13CO2) and the time period of incubation with 13CO2 (10, 60, 180 min) (Fig. S3). 166
Short incubation times of 10 minutes at ambient levels of 13CO2 (400 µL L-1) were 167
sufficient to allow precise estimation of assimilated carbon, due to the high precision 168
of the EA-C-IRMS measurement (Fig. S3A). Labelled under these conditions, the 169
shoot of rice seedlings showed marked 13C enrichment, i.e. a delta value of 170 ± 170
6‰. The low deviation underlines that the assimilation was quantified with excellent 171
reproducibility, particularly considering the high complexity of the studied plant 172
system. Enrichment values were in an equal range after simultaneous labelling of 173
one, three, six or twelve plants in the same reactor for 60 minutes, indicating that 174
even larger sets of plants and longer incubation times did not result in CO2 limitation 175
(Fig. S3B). In order to examine diurnal effects on photosynthesis and CO2 176
assimilation, isotopic labelling studies with seedlings were conducted every hour in 177
the timeframe of 2.5 to 9.5 hours after sunrise. Labelling of plants at different 178
daytime did not reveal significant difference from plants labelled at midday (6.5 179
hours after sunrise) (Fig. S3C). Accordingly, the routine workflow was as follows: 180
Oryza sativa plants were grown in a phyto chamber under ambient air, until they 181
were placed inside the enclosure shortly before the labelling experiment. Ambient 182
CO2 was then removed from the reactor within 30 seconds and replaced by an 183
equimolar amount of 13CO2 (400 µL L-1). After 10 minutes of incubation in this 184
atmosphere, plants were removed from the reactor and either directly harvested for 185
assessment of carbon assimilation or cultivated further on in the phyto chamber for 186
assessment of carbon translocation, respectively. For simultaneous tracing of 15N, 187
roots of hydroponically grown seedlings were supplied with 15NH4NO3. The isotopic 188
enrichment of harvested plant material and extracted amino acids was determined 189
using EA-C-IRMS and GC-C-IRMS, respectively. 190
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Combined assessment of carbon and nitrogen metabolism in rice seedlings. 192
The developed approach was next used for combined 13CO2 and 15NH4NO3 labelling 193
of hydroponically grown rice seedlings, in order to obtain an integrated picture of 194
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carbon and nitrogen metabolism (Fig. 2). Isotopically labelled ammonium nitrate 195
was provided to the roots, while at the same time, 13CO2 was supplied to the shoot 196
of a rice seedling, using the designed box reactor (Fig. 1C). Immediately after the 197
pulse, maximum 13C enrichment was detected in the shoot (450 ± 45‰) (Fig. 2A), 198
while 15N labelling was highest for the root (4130 ± 25‰) (Fig. 2C). However, 199
transport of carbon and nitrogen seemed fast, because significant 15N enrichment at 200
this time point was already found in the shoot (190 ± 25‰) (Fig. 2D). Likewise, the 201
root contained slight amounts of 13C (15 ± 5‰) (Fig. 2B). Within two hours after 202
assimilation, 15N and 13C levels were evenly equilibrated. During the ongoing chase 203
period, 13C and 15N enrichments continuously decreased in root and shoot. By 204
integration of the measured 13C and 15N enrichment data, it was now possible to 205
determine the percent reallocation of label within two hours after the labelling pulse 206
(Fig. 3), thereby providing fast and quantitative access to relative carbon and 207
nitrogen fluxes in rice plants. The root-to-shoot ratio, calculated from the labelling 208
data via Equation (4) was 0.173. This seemed a proper estimate according to 209
previously reported values for rice between 0.05 – 0.3 (Yoshida, 1981). The majority 210
of assimilated nitrogen (85%) was transported to the shoot (Fig. 3A), whereas only 211
15% remained in the roots. Regarding assimilated carbon, the major fraction (69%) 212
was retained in the shoot, whereas only 7% was translocated into the roots. A total 213
of 76% of assimilated carbon was thus recovered inside the plant, two hours after 214
assimilation, which indicated a loss of 24% via respiration. The retainment of carbon 215
in the shoot was slightly higher than that for maize plants, in which 53% of 13C is 216
recovered inside the shoot at elongation (Meng et al., 2013). The same calculation, 217
using labelling data from samples, taken 24 hours after the pulse, i.e. including a 218
dark period, revealed an increased loss of carbon through respiration by 52% (data 219
not shown), which agreed well with corresponding data obtained from the 220
measurement of dry matter production, photosynthesis and respiration (Tanaka and 221
Yamaguchi, 1968). 222
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Impact of salt stress on assimilation and translocation of carbon and nitrogen 224
in rice seedlings. Hydroponically grown rice seedlings were exposed to 100 mM 225
sodium chloride for six days, prior to the labelling experiment. Untreated plants 226
served as a control. Immediately after the labelling pulse, root 15N enrichment was 227
4190 ± 25‰ in the control plant and only 2490 ± 160‰ in the stressed plant, 228
corresponding to a decreased ammonium uptake of 40% (Fig. 2). In addition, the 229
translocation of nitrogen from root to shoot was strongly impaired, leading to 230
significantly less enrichment (43% to 62%) in the shoot of stressed plants, compared 231
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to control plants at all sampling time points. In contrast, carbon assimilation in the 232
shoot was rather unaltered (Fig. 2A). As described above for untreated control 233
plants, the distribution of carbon and nitrogen was inferred for a stressed plant by 234
integrating 13C and 15N labelling data. The root-to-shoot ratio estimated via Equation 235
(4) was only slightly increased under stress conditions (0.165 ± 0.01 for control 236
plants compared to 0.173 ± 0.03 for stressed plants). Relative carbon distribution did 237
not change in plants exposed to stress (Fig. 3). Nitrogen distribution, however, 238
changed significantly, leading to the recovery of 30% of the assimilated nitrogen in 239
roots, compared to 15% in control plants. The amount of labelled nitrogen 240
transported to the shoot was accordingly decreased, resulting in 69% compared to 241
86% in control plants (Fig. 3B). 242
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Quantitative assessment of carbon assimilation in adult rice plants. In 244
flowering and grain-filling stage, rice plants exhibit different leaf types, i.e. normal 245
leaves and flag leaves. The flag leaf is the uppermost leaf on a culm and the main 246
carbon provider of the panicle when fully developed (Rawson and Hofstra, 1969). 247
Assimilation patterns of plants in different developmental stages, sampled 248
immediately after a 10-minute labelling pulse, were compared (Fig. 4). Most of the 249
label was found in the leaves. Plants in the flowering stage showed similar 13C 250
enrichment in normal leaves (260 ± 40‰) and flag leaves (240 ± 50‰) (Fig. 4B). 251
This was also observed for the early grain-filling stage. During late grain filling, 252
however, the flag leaf was more important for the assimilation of 13CO2, indicated by 253
significantly higher enrichment (170 ± 10‰ in normal leaves, compared to 270 ± 254
30‰ in flag leaves), which is similar to previous findings for wheat (Rawson and 255
Hofstra, 1969) and consistent with its function as major source organ for carbon 256
transport into the panicle. The stem did not exhibit any enrichment, while the panicle 257
showed low 13C accumulation during early grain-filling (10 ± 5‰) (Fig. 4B). 258
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Quantitative assessment of carbon translocation in adult rice plants. In order 260
to assess carbon translocation, plants were post-cultivated in the phyto chamber 261
after a labelling period of 10 minutes. Samples taken after distinct chase periods 262
provided a time-resolved 13C sequestration pattern. Immediately after the 13CO2 263
pulse, most of the label was recovered in the leaves (Fig. 4D). Within two hours of 264
further growth, the 13C enrichment of flag leaves and normal leaves declined by 45% 265
and 41%, respectively, while the enrichment in the stem and panicle increased. This 266
trend continued until a maximal enrichment was reached after 24 hours for the 267
panicle (100 ± 20‰) and after 48 hours for the stem (50 ± 15‰) (Fig. 4D). As for the 268
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seedling experiments, the data for the adult plants showed high precision and 269
reproducibility. 270
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Quantification of 13C and 15N amino acid enrichment using GC-C-IRMS. Using 272
GC-C-IRMS, the measurement of labelling enrichment was extended to amino 273
acids. For each amino acid, eluting from the GC column, the 13C and 15N enrichment 274
was given by the ion intensity at a mass to charge ratio of m/z = 45 and m/z = 29, 275
reflecting 13CO2 and 14N15N, respectively, formed by combustion in the instrument. 276
For 16 amino acids, satisfying signal quality was generally obtained and provided 277
precise estimates of their labelling status. Hereby, the amino acid pairs 278
glutamate/glutamine and aspartate/asparagine were each quantified as lumped 279
pools, due to conversion of the carboxamides asparagine and glutamine into their 280
corresponding acids during the protein hydrolysis step of sample processing 281
(Wittmann, 2007). Four amino acids were not accessible, because they were 282
degraded (cysteine, methionine, tryptophan, arginine) during this treatment 283
(Wittmann, 2007). Generally, 5 mg of lyophilized material was sufficient to provide 284
high quality data, independent from the type of tissue processed. The conditions 285
used for extraction, precipitation and derivatisation of protein from lyophilized plant 286
material was crucial with regard to yield and purity of the obtained amino acids. In 287
contrast to extraction in TRIS buffer (pH 8.8), extraction in hot water (100 °C, 15 288
min) did yield much less protein (data not shown). Similarly, precipitation of the 289
extracted protein in ice-cold 10% TCA was less efficient than precipitation in ice-cold 290
acetone (data not shown). Additional tests with alternative derivatisation agents, 291
revealed that tri-methyl-silyl derivates of the amino acids, obtained e.g. with 292
trimethylsilyl-trifluoroacetamide, were not fully separated by gas chromatography. 293
Even a set of variations in the temperature profile did not allow full baseline 294
separation for the amino acids methionine/aspartate, isoleucine/proline and 295
glutamate/phenylalanine. Full baseline separation was, however, necessary as the 296
combustion of analytes into CO2 and N2 prior to detection does not allow to 297
discriminate between overlapping analyte peaks. Derivatisation with methyl-t-298
butyldimethylsilyl-trifluoroacetamide into t-butyl-dimethyl-silyl derivates finally led to 299
full baseline separation of the target analytes. Some of the seedling samples, 300
however, did not provide an unambiguous signal for tyrosine, probably due to matrix 301
overlay. Due to the fact that interference with background noise or matrix effects 302
leads to false results in isotope experiments (Wittmann, 2007), this amino acid was 303
partly excluded from further interpretation. It also turned out that the addition of 304
dimethylformamide, commonly used to process microbial samples (Wittmann, 305
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2007), was not compatible with the used GC-C-IRMS instrument, because the 306
solvent was largely transferred into the combustion chamber. Accordingly, 307
derivatisation was conducted without addition of solvents. Tests with different 308
incubation times (30, 60, 90, 120 min) and temperatures (80, 90, 100 °C) revealed 309
that the combination of 60 minutes and 80 °C provided the optimum signal-to-noise 310
ratio. 311
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Isotope distribution patterns – dynamic incorporation of carbon into protein 313
amino acids. The developed protocol was now used to quantify 13C distribution 314
patterns in rice related to amino acid metabolism (Fig. 5). A first study with seedlings 315
revealed that enrichment increased with time, as 13C was continuously incorporated 316
into cell protein. Amino acids strongly differed with regard to label incorporation, 317
which seemed to correlate to their biosynthetic origin. Particularly, tyrosine and 318
phenylalanine, stemming from intermediates of the EMP pathway 319
(phosphoenolpyruvate) and of the non-oxidative PP pathway (erythrose 4-320
phosphate), were enriched rather fast and to a greater extent than all other amino 321
acids and contributed up to 9% and 15% of the entire enrichment, respectively (Fig. 322
5A). Immediately after the pulse, significant 13C incorporation was also observed for 323
amino acids stemming from pyruvate, another intermediate of the EMP pathway, i.e. 324
alanine, serine, glycine, valine and leucine. In contrast, labelling enrichment was 325
delayed for amino acids, synthesized from 2-oxoglutarate and oxaloacetate, 326
intermediates of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle (Fig. 5A). Generally, highest 327
enrichments were detected 24 hours after the labelling pulse. After 48 hours, the 328
enrichment declined for most amino acids, probably due to a dilution with 12CO2 329
taken up during the post-labelling incubation. The 13C labelling profile of glycine and 330
serine was similar, indicating that they originate from the same metabolic precursor, 331
3-phosphoglycerate (Wittmann, 2007). The same trend was also found for other 332
amino acid families, like the aspartate family of amino acids with threonine, lysine, 333
isoleucine and aspartate itself. In comparison to rice seedlings, the general amino 334
acid enrichment was, on average, eight times lower in the leaf of an adult plant 335
during the late grain filling stage (Fig. 5A). This was interesting to note, because the 336
total assimilation of carbon of both tissue types was in the same range (Fig. S3 and 337
Fig. 4B) and perfectly matches with the changing role of leaves from a strong sink 338
during development to a major source during reproduction, assimilating but not 339
incorporating carbon dioxide (Thrower, 1962; Turgeon, 1989). Low enrichment was 340
equally observed for normal leaves (60 ± 10‰ total amino acid enrichment), flag 341
leaves (70 ± 10‰ total amino acid enrichment) and stem (40 ± 25‰ total amino acid 342
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enrichment) within one day of label translocation (Fig. 5B). In contrast, the panicle of 343
adult rice plants was much more active regarding amino acid metabolic pathways 344
(280 ± 30‰ total amino acid enrichment). Here, highest enrichment was detected 345
for phenylalanine (39 ± 3‰) and tyrosine (30 ± 2‰), followed by alanine (28 ± 4‰), 346
glutamate (23 ± 2‰) and leucine (22 ± 3‰), which was in accordance to the pattern 347
detected for rice seedlings. The other amino acids showed lower enrichment (Fig. 348
5B). 349
Isotope distribution patterns - combined 13C and 15N incorporation into protein 350
amino acids. Amino acids of the shoot were analysed for their 13C and 15N 351
enrichment from combined 13CO2 and 15NH4NO3 labelling experiments with 352
hydroponically grown rice seedlings (Fig.6). For six selected amino acids, i.e. 353
alanine, glycine, proline, serine, aspartate and glutamate, root-based data with 354
satisfying quality could be derived, which allowed a tissue-specific examination, at 355
least for these molecules (Fig. 6). Immediately after labelling, strong 15N enrichment 356
was detected for serine, aspartate and glutamate of root protein. At the same time, 357
alanine, glycine and serine, extracted from shoot protein, revealed significant 13C 358
enrichment (Fig. 6). Within two hours, labelled compounds were distributed inside 359
the plant, leading to combined 13C and 15N enriched amino acids in shoot and root. 360
Although all amino acids exhibited significantly different 13C and 15N enrichment, 361
strongest differences were found for shoot amino acids. Alanine, and serine 362
exhibited higher 13C enrichment, whereas proline, aspartate and glutamate were 363
more strongly enriched with 15N. Four hours after the labelling pulse, similar amino 364
acid enrichment patterns of shoot and root indicated the equilibration of label 365
between these organs (Fig. 6). Amino acid enrichment patterns were similar for soil-366
grown and hydroponically grown rice seedlings (Fig. S4), indicating that hydroponic 367
cultivation did not significantly influence at least this part of metabolism. 368
369
Mode-of-action analysis - effect of imazapyr treatment on rice seedlings. 370
Herbicide treatment was used as proof of concept to demonstrate the potential of 371
the established technology for mode-of-action studies. Imazapyr was chosen as a 372
widely used herbicide, with a well described mechanism of action, i.e. the inhibition 373
of acetolactate synthase (ALS) in branched chain amino acid biosynthesis. The 374
studies were conducted using 12-day old, soil-grown rice plants, which were 375
exposed to imazapyr treatment or to a control treatment. Plants were pulse-labelled 376
with 13CO2, four hours after herbicide application (Fig. 7). At the time-point of the 377
labelling experiment, no phenotypic alterations of plant morphology, as compared to 378
the control plants, were observed (data not shown). The overall carbon assimilation 379
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at this time point was not disturbed, as indicated by equal 13C shoot enrichment of 380
stressed and control plants, namely 586 ± 26‰ and 595 ± 16‰, respectively (Fig. 381
7A). However, strongly diminished label incorporation was detected in proteinogenic 382
amino acids, which was particularly pronounced for the branched-chain amino acids 383
(BCAAs), 2 hours after the labelling pulse (Fig. 7B). Amino acid enrichment of 384
stressed plants reached 19 to 75% of the enrichment detected in control plants, 385
except for the branched-chain amino acids, which did only reach 4 to 11%. On 386
average, the enrichments were 2.7 times lower in imazapyr-treated plants than in 387
control plants, with the exception of BCAAs, which exhibited 7 to 26 times less 13C 388
enrichment. Observable phenotypic effects became evident seven days after 389
imazapyr application, comprised inhibition of growth, chlorosis of aboveground plant 390
parts, as well as a dieback of young leaves (Fig. 7C). 391
392 Discussion 393
The quantitative analysis of pathway function and regulation is key to understand 394
and engineer plant physiology (Maliga and Graham, 2004). Here, we developed a 395
cost-effective, high-throughput approach to assess whole plant metabolic 396
phenotypes in vivo. As shown, we coupled 13CO2 and 15NH4NO3 pulse studies under 397
precisely controlled physiological conditions with ultra-precision GC-C-IRMS for 398
parallel 13C and 15N labelling analysis in different plant tissues and even individual 399
molecular compounds to elucidate plant metabolic traits. Different tube reactor 400
layouts enabled 13CO2 isotope experiments with soil grown seedlings and adult 401
plants, up to an height of about one metre (Fig. 1A, Fig. 1B), whereas parallel 13CO2 402
and 15NH4NO3 labelling with hydroponic plant cultures could be conducted in a 403
specific box reactor (Fig. 1C). In contrast to previous techniques (Tanaka and Osaki, 404
1983; Nouchi et al., 1994; Römisch-Margl et al., 2007), our methodology minimizes 405
potential alterations of the studied plant during the experiment due to an atmosphere 406
with ambient CO2 levels, controlled temperature, humidity and illumination and 407
incubation times of only 10 minutes. The careful experimental layout provided data 408
with high precision and reproducibility among replicates, independent of the 409
developmental stage of the analysed plants. Assimilation and translocation of 410
carbon in different tissues (Fig. 3, Fig. 4) and even individual molecules (Fig. 5) 411
could be quantified at deviations below 20% for adult plants. Given the fact that 412
plants in advanced developmental stages are rather complex and subject to a 413
certain biological variation, due to differentiation into specific organs and cell types, 414
precision and reproducibility can be regarded excellent. For seedlings, they were 415
partially even higher (Fig. 6, Fig. 7). This allowed to accurately discriminate 416
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metabolic properties, differing only slightly, which seems a valuable characteristic of 417
our approach. 418
419
Assessment of important characteristics of carbon metabolism. Beyond 420
technical precision and accuracy, it was further important to validate to which extent 421
the method could assess key properties of plant physiology. A catalogue of 422
experiments addressed this issue. Grain yield, the most prominent characteristic of 423
crop plants, is strongly dependent on the source-sink relationship between plant 424
parts (Kato et al., 2004), whereby the operational mode of a distinct plant organ, as 425
source or sink, changes throughout development (Meng et al., 2013). Pioneering 426
studies with rice plants, using radioactive 14CO2 at high dosage had revealed 427
translocation of assimilated carbon into the panicle during grain filling (Cock and 428
Yoshida, 1972). This was quantitatively assessed here, however, by much safer and 429
easier handling using stable 13CO2. Most of the assimilated carbon was recovered 430
inside the rice panicle, 24 hours after the pulse (Fig. 4D and Fig. 5B). In line, a 90% 431
decrease of 13C in the assimilating tissue of plants from the late grain filling stage 432
was detected during this chase period (Fig. 4D), which is in the range of values 433
reported for other plants (Leake et al., 2006). During development from flowering to 434
late grain filling, the relative contribution of different leaves to carbon assimilation 435
probably corresponds to changing metabolic requirements (Meng et al., 2013). 436
During late grain filling, the lower activity of carbon assimilation in mature leaves, 437
relative to the flag leaf, indicated mechanisms of senescence (Fig. 4). In senescing 438
leaves, the RuBisCO content and, as a consequence hereof, the photosynthetic 439
activity rapidly decreases. Therefore, mature leaves cannot assimilate as much CO2 440
as younger leaves (Makino et al., 1984). At night, 13C was further lost by respiration. 441
Additional carbon loss might have resulted from a combination of translocation to 442
tissues not analysed, e.g. the roots of plants grown on soil, and dilution of the label 443
by overall plant biomass increase during the chase period (Leake et al., 2006). 444
445
Integrated analysis of carbon and nitrogen metabolism. The set-up furthermore 446
allowed combined labelling studies with 13CO2 and 15NH4NO3, which are interesting 447
due to the close connection of carbon and nitrogen metabolism in plants, but have 448
been conducted only rarely (Cliquet et al., 1990; Dyckmans et al., 2000). The 449
studies highlighted fast interorgan distribution of carbon and nitrogen in seedlings 450
within two hours after assimilation (Fig. 2), whereby the shoot operated as major 451
sink and exhibited a ten-fold and 6-fold higher demand for carbon and nitrogen 452
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compounds, respectively, as compared to the root (Fig. 3A), which reflects sufficient 453
supply with water and nutrients, especially nitrogen (Wilson, 1988; Peuke et al., 454
1994). Obviously, the examined seedlings received all essential macro- and 455
micronutrients, and were exposed to optimal breeding conditions, concerning light, 456
temperature and humidity, so that carbon and nitrogen were mainly used for shoot 457
growth and development. The relative flux maps for carbon and nitrogen, giving the 458
relative distribution among the different tissues on basis of the isotope enrichment 459
data, provide a straightforward snapshot of plant metabolism (Fig. 3). Given the 460
available instrumentation, such insights can be easily provided within one day after 461
an isotope experiment and thus allow for a fast evaluation, e.g. to study 462
environmental stresses as demonstrated for salt-stressed rice (Fig. 2, Fig. 3B). In 463
light of breeding stress tolerant plant lines, an important area of application is 464
metabolic phenotyping in order to identify protective mechanisms (Cramer et al., 465
2011) and changes in sink-source relations (Roitsch, 1999; Albacete et al., 2014). 466
Our data reflect these features for plants treated with salt, a major abiotic factor, 467
particularly affecting growth and productivity of salt sensitive crops (Roy et al., 468
2014). Salt stress resulted in strong perturbation of nitrogen uptake by the root and 469
transport to the shoot, whereas carbon assimilation and translocation was not 470
significantly affected. Stressed plants kept relatively more nitrogen in the root, as 471
compared to non-stressed plants (Fig. 3), probably to support the supply with N-472
containing compatible solutes (Wang et al., 2012). Enhanced retention of nitrogen 473
compounds in the root might furthermore be due to adaptive mechanisms to ensure 474
adequate water and nutrient acquisition from the rhizosphere (Sharp et al., 2004). 475
476
Labeling dynamics of amino acids provide qualitative insight into metabolic 477
pathways. The coupling of isotope-ratio combustion mass spectrometry with gas 478
chromatographic separation, together with the development of suitable protocols for 479
sampling and sample processing, provided time-resolved enrichment data for 480
protein-derived amino acids across different tissues of rice. Amino acids are the 481
analytes of choice for microbial pathway analysis, because they are much more 482
abundant in cell extracts and protein than their precursors and provide extensive 483
labelling information (Wittmann, 2007). On basis of the underlying biosynthetic 484
precursor amino acid relationship it is easy to deduce the labelling patterns of the 485
precursor metabolites from labelling patterns of the corresponding amino acids. The 486 13C labelling of amino acids from the same biosynthetic family was similar and 487
obviously reflected the enrichment of their common precursor (Fig. 5A). In the 488
seedling, amino acids stemming from precursors of the EMP pathway and the non-489
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oxidative PP pathway exhibited a fast and strong 13C enrichment (Fig. 5A, upper 490
panels), examples being phenylalanine, tyrosine, serine, glycine and histidine. In 491
contrast, glutamate, proline, aspartate and threonine, originating from TCA cycle-492
based precursors, were labelled much slower and weaker. Altough this does not 493
directly provide quantitative flux rates, the 13C enrichment data reveal a fast and 494
strong influx of 13C into the EMP pathway and the non-oxidative PP pathway, 495
indicating high activities of these routes. The rather low enrichment of TCA-cycle 496
related amino acids most likely reflects a downregulation of the cycle in the light 497
(Tcherkez et al., 2005). In addition, the slow dynamics could be an indication, that 498
glutamate, aspartate and amino acids derived therefrom, are not formed in the 499
shoot, but are rather synthesized in the root, followed by transport into the shoot. 500
This is indeed taking place, which is discussed below on basis of integrated 13C and 501 15N labelling data (Fig. 6). The 13C enrichment in the shoot of a seedling was about 8 502
to 10 fold higher than that in the leaf of an adult rice plant (Fig. 5A, lower panels). 503
Adult leaves assimilated the provided 13CO2 to a high extent (Fig. 4), but 504
incorporated only little of it into protein. This matches with the changing role of 505
leaves from sink to source during reproduction, assimilating but not incorporating 506
carbon dioxide (Thrower, 1962; Turgeon, 1989). 507
508
Labeling dynamics of amino acids indicate tissue specific metabolism. The 13C 509
labelling of amino acids differed largely between individual tissues. For rice at late 510
grain filling, leaf, flag leaf and stem incorporated only little carbon into protein 511
(Fig. 5B). The panicle showed the highest 13C enrichment among all tissues. Most 512
assimilated carbon was hence translocated into the panicle, where it was 513
incorporated into proteinogenic amino acids. The panicle exhibited an active de-514
novo protein biosynthesis, reflecting that filling of the grains results in a strong 515
demand for protein precursors (Cock and Yoshida, 1972). A compound-oriented 516
view, based on statistical significance of labelling patterns, groups amino acids into 517
coloured ellipses according to their labelling similarity (Fig. 5D). This immediately 518
highlights specific metabolic fingerprints for all tissues of rice. Leaf and flag leaf 519
differed only in a few amino acids, whereas stem and panicle revealed drastically 520
altered patterns and evidence for a tissue specific carbon metabolism. This type of 521
visualization further highlighted strong differences between the carbon metabolism 522
of an adult leaf and a young shoot. 523
524
Labeling dynamics provide spatial resolution of amino acid metabolism. 525
Combined 13C and 15N labelling of hydroponic rice seedlings showed an immediate 526
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occurrence of 15N labelled glutamate/glutamine and aspartate/asparagine in the 527
root, whereas the 13C labelled forms appeared much later (Fig. 6C). Obviously, 528
these amino acids were formed from carbon precursors in the root through 15NH4 529
assimilation and transamination (Lam et al., 1995), which explains the exclusive 530
enrichment with 15N (Fig. 6A and Fig. 6C). Subsequently, they were transported into 531
the shoot (Funayama et al., 2013) to serve as amino group donors for the 532
biosynthesis of other amino acids (Kiyomiya et al., 2001). Glutamate with its rather 533
high 15N and low 13C enrichment, synthesized in the root and transported to the 534
shoot (Fig. 6B, 2 hour time point), is the precursor for de novo synthesis of proline, 535
exhibiting a similar labelling pattern. 536
The immediate 13C enrichment (Fig. 6B, time point zero) indicates a fast 537
biosynthesis of alanine, glycine and serine in the shoot. For glycine and serine this 538
may be due to photorespiration, which typically leads to high turnover rates for these 539
amino acids (Gauthier et al., 2010). Overall, this provides a spatially resolved picture 540
of amino acid metabolism (Fig. 6), which explains the different dynamics of 13C and 541 15N enrichment. From similar effects after simultaneous labelling of rape plants with 542 13C and 15N it has been hypothesized that the incorporation of assimilated 13C into 543
amino acids is not tightly connected to nitrogen assimilation (Gauthier et al., 2010). 544
This seems to also hold for rice. 545
546
Response of rice to the herbicide imazapyr comprises impaired biosynthesis 547
of branched-chain amino acids and enhanced protein turnover. Upon treatment 548
with imazapyr, biosynthesis of valine, leucine and isoleucine was strongly inhibited 549
(Fig. 7B), observable already six hours after treatment. The overall carbon 550
assimilation of the treated plant was, however, unaffected (Fig. 7A). This distinct 551
phenotype perfectly matches with the known mode-of-action of imazapyr. The 552
herbicide is highly target-specific. The enzyme acetohydroxyacid synthase, a key 553
step in branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis, is the only site of action of this 554
herbicide (Tan et al., 2005). In the longer term, imazapyr causes dysfunction of cell 555
growth, as well as disruption of DNA and protein biosynthesis and increased protein 556
turnover to recycle branched-chain amino acids (Shaner and Reider, 1986b; 557
Scarponi et al., 1995; Royuela et al., 2000). As there was no more de novo 558
synthesis, valine, leucine and isoleucine exhibited lowest enrichment (3 ± 3‰ to 10 559
± 3‰) amongst all amino acids. In addition, our analysis demonstrates that 560
metabolic changes at this early time point were not restricted to branched-chain 561
amino acids as primary target. In fact, metabolism was affected much more globally. 562
Newly assimilated 13C was incorporated into protein to a lesser extent in herbicide-563
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treated plants than in control plants (Fig. 7B). Growth defects, were evident seven 564
days after imazapyr application (Fig. 7C), indicating a slow rate of plant death, which 565
is related to the amount of intracellularly stored amino acids (Shaner and Singh, 566
1991). In this regard, our profiling toolbox appears valuable to study the mode-of-567
action of synthetic compounds at the initial level of plant phenotyping, the first level 568
of a three-tiered approach for mode-of-action identification (Tresch, 2013). 569
570
Conclusions 571
Taken together, the developed approach is suitable to conduct stable isotope 572
labelling experiments for in vivo whole plant metabolic profiling. The high technical 573
data quality achievable under physiologically relevant conditions seems particularly 574
promising to be applied to (i) stress response studies, (ii) phenotypic screening of 575
plant lines, (iii) mode-of-action studies and (iv) integrated analysis of carbon and 576
nitrogen metabolism, among others. The underlying tracer studies require little time 577
and low effort as compared to model-based approaches and are potent as 578
screening tool (Schwender, 2008). Clearly, this type of analysis does not, per se, 579
provide quantitative intracellular fluxes through individual reactions and pathways, 580
but can infer metabolic activities, i.e. reallocation profiles or metabolic fingerprints. In 581
this regard, our approach provides a useful complementation to more demanding 582
approaches of isotopically non-stationary metabolic flux analysis (INST-MFA) 583
(Szecowka et al., 2013; Ma et al., 2014). The latter offer the greatest potential for 584
quantitative resolution of metabolic fluxes in autotrophic plants, but involve extreme 585
experimental and computational effort, high cost and low throughput to derive flux 586
information. In this regard, future combinations of both technologies for two-tiered 587
complementary analysis could provide plant physiologists with a sophisticated 588
toolbox for initial screening of several distinct phenotypes, thereby identifying the 589
most promising ones for more comprehensive analysis. The high-precision GC-C-590
IRMS analysis, demonstrated here for amino acids, might be easily widened to e.g. 591
fatty acids (Meier-Augenstein, 2002; Richter et al., 2010; Panetta and Jahren, 2011), 592
sterols (Jones et al., 1991), monosaccharides (Docherty et al., 2001; Derrien et al., 593
2003) and lignin (Goñi and Eglinton, 1996), which are all accessible via such an 594
instrumentation. This promises to extend the approach to other pathways of primary 595
metabolism, e.g. lipid, sugar and cell wall biosynthesis, as well as to pathways of 596
secondary metabolism, involving e.g. phenol, isoprenoid and alkaloid biosynthesis. 597
598
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Materials and Methods 599
Plants. O. sativa L. ssp. japonica Nipponbare was obtained from CropDesign N.V. 600
(Zwijnaarde, Belgium). 601
602
Chemicals. As tracer, 13CO2 (> 99 atom% 13C) was purchased from Eurisotop 603
(Saarbrücken, Germany). Labelled ammonium nitrate (15NH4NO3, > 98 atom% 15N) 604
was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (Steinheim, Germany). 605
606
Media. Plants were grown either on soil (Einheitserde Type-GS90, 70% organic 607
fiber peat, 30% clay, pH 5.5-6, Einheitserde- und Humuswerke Gebr. Patzer, 608
Altengronau, Germany) or on hydroponic medium (1.43 mM ammonium nitrate, 1 609
mM calcium chloride hexahydrate, 0.18 mM magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, 1.32 610
mM potassium sulfate, 0.32 mM monosodium phosphate, 1 mM ferric 611
ethylendiaminetetraacetic acid, 8 µM manganese (II) chloride tetrahydrate, 0.15 µM 612
zinc sulfate heptahydrate, 0.15 µM copper (II) sulfate pentahydrate, 0.075 µM 613
ammonium heptamolybdate, 1.39 µM boric acid, based on (Ritte, 2010)). In isotope 614
experiments, naturally labelled NH4NO3 was replaced by an equimolar amount of 615 15NH4NO3. 616
617
Plant growth conditions. Rice seeds were germinated on moist filter paper in a 618
Petri dish for four days at 26°C in the dark. The seeds were transferred into light 619
(500 µmol m-2 s-1 photosynthetically active radiation (PAR)), one day before they 620
were either transplanted into 0.7 dm3 pots used for further cultivation on soil or into 621
hydroponic boxes. Prior to sowing, pots were soaked with deionized water 622
containing 0.15% of the fungicide proplant (Stähler, Stade, Germany). Seeds were 623
subjected to hot water treatment (60°C, 10 min) to prevent sheath rot. Rice plants 624
were then grown under 13/11 h day/night cycles at an average irradiance of 500 625
µmol m-2 s-1 PAR during the light phase (Powerstar HQI-BT 400W, Osram, Munich, 626
Germany), temperature cycles of 26/21°C and a relative humidity of 60%. During the 627
first 14 days of development, plants were irrigated two times per day with deionized 628
water. During the first three weeks, plants were watered via top-irrigation, later via 629
sub-irrigation. Between weeks three and ten, plants were fertilized with ‘Hakaphos-630
Blau’ solution (0.3% in deionized water, Compo, Münster, Germany) twice per week, 631
replacing one deionized water treatment, respectively. Plants in different 632
developmental stages were used for 13CO2 labelling experiments. Rice seedlings 633
were generally used for experimental purposes after 12 days of cultivation. 634
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Flowering plants, as well as plants from the early and late grain filling stages were 635
examined at an age of 68, 75 and 88 days, respectively. For hydroponic cultures, 636
plants were grown in hydroponic containers (27x17x12 cm), covered with a 637
perforated styrofoam plate. Plastic meshes were placed inside the holes (2 cm 638
diameter) on which pre-germinated seedlings were cultivated with their roots freely 639
suspended in the hydroponic medium. Rice seedlings were generally used for 640
experimental purposes after 12 days of cultivation. The hydroponic cultures were 641
incubated under the same conditions regarding light, temperature and humidity as 642
soil-grown plants. 643
644
High salt treatment. In salt stress experiments, hydroponically growing seedlings 645
were subjected to high salt treatment for six days. For that purpose, 100 mM NaCl 646
was added to the growth medium. 647
648
Imazapyr treatment. Prior to the labelling experiment, soil-grown seedlings were 649
subjected to imazapyr treatment, a non-selective herbicide of the imidazolinone 650
group. The imazapyr solution (0.3 mM imazapyr (BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, 651
Germany), 0.1% (v/v) dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), 0.1% (v/v) Dash® E.C. (BASF 652
SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany)) was applied with an airbrush, to reflect a dosis of 653
62.5 g ha-1. Control plants were subjected to a solution containing only the used 654
solvents (0.1% (v/v) DMSO, 0.1% (v/v) Dash® E.C.). Labelling experiments were 655
conducted four hours after herbicide application. 656
657
Isotopic labelling experiments with 13CO2. The labelling experiments were 658
conducted in specifically constructed labelling reactors (Fig. 1). A large tube reactor 659
(0.5 m diameter, 1.3 m height, 255 L volume) was designed for 13CO2 isotope 660
experiments with soil-grown, adult plants (Fig. 1A), and a small tube reactor (0.5 m 661
diameter, 0.5 m height, 98 L volume) served for 13CO2 isotope experiments at the 662
seedlings stage (Fig. 1B). The tube reactors were built from Plexiglas® acrylic 663
sheets (5 mm thickness, Hans Keim Kunststoffe, Rottweil, Germany). The material 664
allowed full spectral transmission of sunlight at wavelengths between 400 nm and 665
900 nm, containing the essential spectral interval for plant growth (Fig. S1). EPDM 666
rubber (ethylene propylene diene monomer, Mercateo, Munich, Germany) was used 667
as sealing material, because of its high flexibility and endurance. The rubber sealing 668
was agglutinated to the plexiglas or polycarbonate sheets with solvent-free glue 669
(Loctite 406 Henkel, Düsseldorf, Germany). The tube was conglutinated to the lid 670
with a two-component adhesive (Pattex Stabilit, Henkel, Düsseldorf, Gemany). For 671
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maintenance of a constant temperature, a cooling system with a water-cooled 672
ventilator (peltier cooler/heater, 380W, 24V, Uwe Electronic, Unterhaching, 673
Germany), connected to an external cryostat (Lauda RMT20, Lauda Dr. R Wobser, 674
Lauda-Königshofen, Germany) was installed. The ventilator and the connectors 675
were attached to the bottom plate of the reactor. To keep the humidity level at or 676
above 60% of saturation during the experiments, water-soaked cloth was placed in a 677
glass beaker inside the enclosure. Temperature and relative humidity were 678
monitored on-line by a humidity and temperature logger (Voltcraft DL-120 TH, 679
Conrad Electronic SE, Hirschau, Germany). In addition, the CO2 concentration was 680
measured (Voltcraft CM-100, Conrad Electronic SE, Hirschau, Germany). All 681
reactors allowed a precise adjustment of the 13CO2 level. For this purpose, they 682
contained two perforated pipes, one in the upper back part (exhaust air) and one in 683
the lower back part (supply air). These were connected to a CO2 adsorption unit, 684
consisting of a high power pump (6000 L/min, Bravo 2000, 220V, Scoprega Spa, 685
Cassano d/Adda, Italy), a fine dust filter (Filter Cartridge A Kärcher, Gelsenkirchen, 686
Germany) and a CO2 adsorber (5 L, Drägersorb® 800+, Drägerwerk, Lübeck, 687
Germany). All power supplies, except for the external absorber pump, had 24V D.C. 688
to allow safe handling. All labelling reactors were installed inside the phyto chamber 689
(Svalöf Weibull, Sweden), directly beside the benches, where rice plants were 690
grown at ambient air prior to and after the labelling experiments, respectively. For 691
the labelling studies, plants were placed inside the enclosure. Hereby, the soil of the 692
plant pots was covered with plastic wrap to avoid potential interference of CO2 693
respired from soil with the defined gas atmosphere. The ambient CO2 was removed 694
(< 20 µl L-1) by adsorption for a short time period of about 30 seconds as described 695
above. Immediately after purging, the desired amount of 13CO2 was injected through 696
a valve (screw cap with silicone diaphragm), positioned in the lid of each enclosure 697
and the plants were then incubated for a defined labelling period. Afterwards, the 698
plants or specific parts of it were directly harvested or further cultivated in the phyto 699
chamber under ambient air, prior to analysis. All harvested plants or plant tissues 700
were immediately deep-frozen in liquid nitrogen to stop metabolic activity. At each 701
sampling time point, at least three biological replicates were obtained. In the case of 702
seedling experiments, the whole shoot was harvested. Roots were collected from 703
hydroponically grown plantlets and treated equally. Of a full-grown plant, five tillers 704
were harvested, whereby flag leaf, leaf, stem and panicle were separated, followed 705
by immediate quenching in liquid nitrogen. The individual tissues originating from the 706
five tillers were pooled. The outermost, photosynthetically active leaves were 707
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removed from the stem prior to further treatment. Experiments were generally 708
performed in the timeframe of four and eight hours after sunrise. 709
710
Combined 13C and 15N labelling experiment. A box reactor (C/N reactor, 711
0.5x0.5x0.5 m, 125 L volume) was developed for combined 13CO2 and 15NH4NO3 712
labelling with hydroponic rice cultures (Fig. 1C). Ammonium nitrate was selected, 713
because it generally serves as nitrogen source and is taken up by the roots. Rice 714
prefers ammonium over nitrate, as demonstrated by a higher uptake rate. Compared 715
to nitrate, its uptake is less dependent on light intensity and O2 concentration at root 716
site (Sasakawa and Yamamoto, 1978). The reactor was built from polycarbonate 717
(5 mm thickness, Hans Keim Kunststoffe, Rottweil, Germany), which allowed full 718
spectral transmission of sunlight (Fig. S1). Plants were pre-grown in the phyto 719
chamber as hydroponic cultures. Prior to the experiment, cultures were transferred 720
from naturally labelled growth medium to a container with 15NH4NO3 medium. The 721
container was then placed inside the reactor on a perforated plate (polyvinylchloride, 722
5 mm, Hans Keim Kunststoffe, Rottweil, Germany) and the enclosure was closed 723
tightly via fixation clamps. Immediately afterwards, the 13CO2 pulse was applied, as 724
described above. Monitoring and control of temperature, humidity and 13CO2 level 725
was done as described for the tube reactors (see above). At the end of the labelling 726
incubation period, the box reactor was opened to ambient air and the plants were 727
either directly harvested or re-transferred into naturally labelled growth medium after 728
washing of the roots with naturally labelled growth medium. Sampling and sample 729
processing was done as described above. Experiments were generally performed in 730
the timeframe of four and eight hours after sunrise. 731
732
Quantification of isotopic 13C and 15N enrichment. Shortly, deep-frozen plant 733
material was freeze-dried (Christ Gamma 2-16 LSC, Martin Christ 734
Gefriertrocknungsanlagen, Osterode am Harz, Germany) and ground to fine powder 735
in a ball mill (3-5 min, 30 Hz, Retsch MM300, Retsch, Haan, Germany). A sample 736
(0.8-0.9 mg dry weight) was then transferred into a tin capsule (3.5x5 mm, 737
HEKAtech, Löbau, Germany). The isotopic enrichment was determined using an 738
elemental analyser (FLASH 2000 Elemental Analyser, Thermo Scientific, Waltham, 739
USA-MA) coupled to an isotope-ratio mass spectrometer (Delta V Plus Isotope Ratio 740
MS, Thermo Scientific, Waltham, USA-MA). The gas flow was set to 300 mL/min 741
and the column temperature was kept at 41°C. 742
743
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Quantification of isotopic 13C and 15N enrichment of proteinogenic amino 744
acids. Deep-frozen plant material was freeze-dried (Christ Gamma 2-16 LSC, 745
Martin Christ Gefriertrocknungsanlagen, Osterode am Harz, Germany) and ground 746
to fine powder in a ball mill (3-5 min, 30 Hz, Retsch MM300, Retsch, Haan, 747
Germany). Protein extraction was carried out as described previously (Hurkman and 748
Tanaka, 1986), involving slight modifications as outlined below. Samples of 749
approximately 5 mg dry weight were mixed with 400 µL extraction buffer (0.175 M 750
tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane/HCl, pH 8.8, 5% (w/v) sodium dodecylsulfate, 751
15% (v/v) glycerol, 0.3 M dithiothreitol), followed by centrifugation (13,000 xg, 10 752
min, room temperature). The supernatant was mixed with 1.6 mL ice-cold acetone 753
and incubated for precipitation of cell protein for 1 h at -20°C). After centrifugation 754
(13,000 xg, 10 min, 4°C), the protein pellet was washed two times with 80% 755
acetone, air-dried and hydrolysed into the amino acids for 12 hours (125 µL, 6 M 756
HCl, 100 °C). The hydrolysate was purified (Millipore, centrifugal filter units, 757
Ultrafree-MC, Durapore-PVDF 0.22 µm, Sigma-Aldrich, Steinheim, Germany). A 758
volume of 50 µL of the hydrolysate was mixed with 50 µL internal standard (1.2 mM 759
α-aminobutyric acid) and evaporated under a nitrogen stream. Amino acids were 760
derivatised by addition of 100 µl N-methyl-N-t-butyldimethylsilyl-trifluoroacetamide 761
(Macherey-Nagel, Düren, Germany) followed by incubation for 1 hour at 80°C. The 762
isotopic composition of the amino acids was quantified by GC-C-IRMS (Trace GC 763
Ultra Gas Chromatograph, Delta V Plus Isotope Ratio MS, Thermo Scientific, 764
Waltham, USA-MA). A sample volume of 0.5 µL was injected via the PTV-inlet 765
(250°C) at a split ratio of 1:20. Helium was used as carrier gas at a constant flow 766
rate of 1 mL/min. Analytes were separated on a fused silica capillary column (HP-767
5MS, 30 m x 25 mm, 0.25 µm, Agilent, Waldbronn, Germany) and then transferred 768
to an oxidizing combustion reactor (1000°C). The initial oven temperature of 120°C 769
was kept for 2 minutes. Afterwards, the temperature was increased at a rate of 770
8°C/min until 200°C. In a second gradient step, the temperature was raised to 771
300°C at 10°C/min followed by a temperature hold for 5 minutes. The GC-C-IRMS 772
profile of the MBDSTFA-derivatised amino acids was obtained in selective ion 773
monitoring mode via mass isomers of formed CO2 (m/z 44, 45, 46) and N2 (at m/z 774
28, 29) at their corresponding retention time. Metabolite identification was achieved 775
by GC-MS (7890A GC-System, 7000 GC/MS Triple Quad, 7693 Autosampler, 776
Agilent Technologies, Waldbronn, Germany) measurements of single amino acids 777
and their mixture (10 µM each) in full-scan acquisition mode, followed by a NIST 778
mass spectral search (NIST MS search 2.0) and comparison of the chromatographic 779
pattern with the one of the corresponding GC-C-IRMS measurement. Data 780
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acquisition and evaluation was conducted using the Software Isodat NT (Thermo 781
Scientific, Waltham, USA-MA). Analytical accurateness was a pre-condition for 782
further data evaluation. Data points, for which peak integrity was corrupted were 783
omitted from graphical data representation. 784
785
Calculation of 13C and 15N enrichment. The δ values (‰) are expressed relative to 786
international standards as: 787
788
δ =
Rsample - Rstandard
Rstandard*1000 (Eq. 1)
789
where R is the ratio of 13C/12C or 15N/14N. The 13C and 15N measurement was 790
calibrated against Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite (VPDB) and atmospheric nitrogen, 791
respectively, using the international reference materials cellulose (IAEA-CH-3) and 792
ammonium sulphate (IAEA-N-1) as secondary standards. Typical values for δ13C of 793
unlabelled C3 plant material are between -34 and -22‰ (Richter et al., 2010) (Meier-794
Augenstein, 1999a). Enrichment values were also expressed as atom percent (AP), 795
i.e. the percentage of 13C or 15N atoms relative to the total amount of C or N atoms 796
in the sample. Atom percent enrichment was derived via Equation 2. 797
798
AP =
100 * Rsample
1 + Rsample (Eq. 2)
799
Atom percent excess (APE), the absolute value for isotopic enrichment, was 800
calculated by subtracting the enrichment of the control from the enrichment of the 801
sample: 802
803
APE = APsample- APcontrol (Eq. 3)
Data correction for natural isotopes. Naturally occurring isotopes of the analyte 804
and of derivative groups were considered (Wittmann, 2007) and data correction 805
following GC-C-IRMS measurement was done as previously described (Metges and 806
Daenzer, 2000) (Docherty et al., 2001) (Heinzle et al., 2008). Shortly, δ values were 807
normalized to their respective unlabelled equivalents by subtracting values of the 808
unlabeled control from the corresponding value of the labelled sample: 809
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810
δcorr = δsample - δcontrol (Eq. 4)
811
Where δcorr is the labelled compound, δsample is the derivatized labelled compound 812
and δcontrol is the derivatized unlabelled compound. For each experiment, unlabelled 813
control plants were harvested (at least three biological replicates) that were exposed 814
to the exact same breeding conditions as the labelled plants, i.e., that were grown 815
on the same batch of soil or hydroponic medium, respectively. Furthermore, 816
unlabelled controls were subjected to the same sample processing steps like 817
labelled samples. 818
For the amino acid pathway illustrations (Fig. 5A and Fig. 5B), the corrected δ 819
values were normalized to 100%. Therefore, the highest δcorr value of the respective 820
dataset was set to 100%. The normalized value of any number x (Xnorm) of the 821
original dataset was calculated by the following equation: 822
823
Xnorm = x * 100 δmax
(Eq. 5),
824
where δmax was the highest δcorr value. 825
826
Determination of root-to-shoot ratio and translocation flux. To set up a flux map 827
for a rice seedling, it was important to derive the root-to-shoot ratio of the analysed 828
plantlets. It was assumed that the decrease of 15N enrichment in the root within two 829
hours of tracing is only due to translocation of label to the shoot. With this 830
assumption, the root-to-shoot ratio was derived via the following formula: 831
832
Mshoot* δ15Nshoot, t2- δ15Nshoot, t0 = Mroot* δ15Nroot, t0- δ15Nroot, t2 (Eq. 6)
833
Where M is the mass of shoot and root, respectively. A root:shoot ratio of 1:6 was 834
obtained for twelve day old seedlings. This value was used to estimate the percent 835
enrichment of individual plant parts after two hours of tracing. Considering that shoot 836
biomass was six times as much as root biomass, it follows that 15N enrichment of 837
the shoot was diluted by a factor of six, upon translocation to the shoot, whereas 13C 838
enrichment accumulated 6-fold upon translocation to the root. Accordingly, δ15N 839
values of the shoot were multiplied by six, whereas δ13C values of the root were 840
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divided by six. Shoot and root enrichment values of 13C as well as 15N labelling, at 841
time point zero, were summed, displaying 100% uptake, respectively. On this basis, 842 13C and 15N percent enrichments were estimated for root and shoot. The amount of 843 13C labelling that could not be recovered in plant tissue was assumed to be lost by 844
respiration. 845
846
Statistical analysis. The statistical significance of differences between mean 847
values were determined using Student`s t-test or one-way ANOVA followed by a 848
post-hoc Tukey`s test. Differences were considered significant, when the P-value 849
was below 0.05.850
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Supplementary Data 851
Supplementary Fig. S1: Absorption spectra of material used for the construction of 852 labelling reactors. 853 Supplementary Fig. S2: Profiles of temperature and relative humidity inside the 854 different reactor housings. 855 Supplementary Fig. S3: Influence of magnitude and duration of 13CO2 labelling 856 pulse, number of plants in the enclosure and daytime on the enrichment of 857 seedlings. 858 Supplementary Fig. S4: Simplified pathway illustration of shoot amino acid 13C 859 enrichment of rice seedlings raised on soil compared to hydroponic culture. 860 Supplementary Table S1: Raw data of Figure 2 and Figure 3A, combined 13C and 861 15N enrichment of seedlings. 862 Supplementary Table S2: Raw data of Figure 2 and Figure 3B, combined 13C and 863 15N enrichment of seedlings exposed to salt stress. 864 Supplementary Table S3: Raw data of Figure 4B, 13C enrichment of plants in the 865 developmental stages flowering, grain filling early and grain filling late. 866 Supplementary Table S4: Raw data of Figure 4D, 13C enrichment of the different 867 tissue types of plants in the late grain filling stage. 868 Supplementary Table S5: Raw data of Figure 5A, 13C amino acid enrichment of a 869 seedling shoot compared to the leaf of a plant in the late grain filling stage. 870 Supplementary Table S6: Raw data of Figure 5B, tissue specific 13C amino acid 871 enrichment of plants in the late grain filling stage. 872 Supplementary Table S7: Raw data of Figure 5C, statistical significance between 873 individual amino acid 13C enrichments of different tissue types. 874 Supplementary Table S8: Raw data of Figure 6, 13C and 15N enrichment of shoot 875 and root. 876 Supplementary Table S9: Raw data of Figure 7A, 13C assimilation of imazapyr-877 treated rice seedlings. 878 Supplementary Table S10: Raw data of Figure 7B, 13C amino acid enrichment of 879 imazapyr-treated rice seedlings. 880 Supplementary Table S11: Raw data of Figure S2, displaying temperature and 881 humidity profiles of the labelling reactors. 882 Supplementary Table S12: Raw data of Figure S3, validation of labelling system. 883 Supplementary Table S13: Raw data of Figure S4, 13C labelling enrichment of 884 seedlings grown on soil and such grown on hydroponic medium. 885
886
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Acknowledgements 887
The authors gratefully thank Enrico Peter for his input regarding experimental design 888
and troubleshooting, and Olaf Woiwode for cultivation of plants, maintenance of 889
equipment and assistance with preparation and execution of experiments. Our 890
sincere thanks also go to Jürgen Kastler and René Müller for IRMS analyses and 891
data evaluation.892
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Figure Legends 1110
1111
Figure 1: Equipment designed and constructed for in vivo 13C and 15N labelling studies: 1112
Large tube reactor (0.5 m diameter, 1.3 m height, 255 L volume) for 13CO2 labelling of soil-1113
grown adult rice plants (A); Small tube reactor (0.5 m diameter, 0.5 m height, 98 L volume) 1114
for 13CO2 labelling of soil-grown rice seedlings (B); Box reactor (0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 m, 125 L 1115
volume) for simultaneous 13CO2 and 15NH4NO3 labelling of hydroponic rice seedlings (C). All 1116
reactors were equipped with a temperature control, comprising a water-cooled ventilator at 1117
the bottom plate of the reactor and an external cryostat. In addition, an external CO2 1118
adsorption unit consisted of a high power pump, an adsorber and a fine dust filter. Prior to 1119
the experiments, the chosen plants were placed into the reactor, which were then closed gas 1120
tight by a rubber sealing. Ambient CO2 was removed from the reactor within 30 seconds. 1121
Experiments were started by injecting desired amounts of 13CO2 through an injection valve in 1122
the lid of each reactor. 1123
1124
Figure 2: Impact of salt stress on carbon and nitrogen assimilation and translocation of 1125
hydroponically grown rice seedlings. The data reflect 13C (A) and 15N enrichment (B) in the 1126
shoot, and 13C (C) and 15N enrichment (D) and in the root. The data comprise mean values ± 1127
SD (n = 3) for stressed seedlings (100 mM NaCl for six days, white bars) and untreated 1128
controls (grey bars). At the age of 12 days, rice seedlings were simultaneously labelled with 1129 13CO2 (400 µL L-1) through the reactor gas phase and with 15NH4NO3 (1.43 mM), supplied via 1130
the hydroponic growth medium. The labelling pulses were applied for 10 minutes, after which 1131
plants were either directly harvested to assess assimilation, or were further cultivated at 1132
ambient air and in non-labelled medium up to 48 hours for tracing of label translocation. The 1133 13C and 15N enrichment of freeze-dried plant material was analysed by combustion isotope 1134
ratio mass spectrometry, coupled to elemental analysis. Asterisks indicate significant 1135
differences between mean values (P ≤ 0.05, Student`s t-test). n.s., not significant. The full 1136
data set is given in Table S4. 1137
1138
Figure 3: Relative fluxes of assimilated carbon and nitrogen in hydroponically grown rice 1139
seedlings under control conditions (A) and exposed to salt stress (100 mM NaCl for six days) 1140
(B), calculated from 13C and 15N enrichment data, obtained 2 hours after the labelling pulse 1141
(Fig. 2). The root-to-shoot ratio for seedlings under control conditions (0.173) and seedlings 1142
exposed to high salinity (0.165) was calculated from the 15N label distribution using Eq. 4 and 1143
Eq. 6. Based on this ratio, the relative re-allocation of label between shoot and root was 1144
determined. The total amount of assimilated carbon and nitrogen at time point zero was set 1145
to 100% carbon and nitrogen uptake, respectively, in order to provide relative data. The 1146
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seedlings were analyzed at the age of 12 days. The full data sets are given in Table S3 and 1147
Table S4, respectively. 1148
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Figure 4: Carbon assimilation and translocation in adult rice plants, assessed by 13CO2 1150
isotope experiments and labelling analysis by combustion isotope ratio mass spectrometry, 1151
coupled to elemental analysis. Morphology of the studied plants with sampled leaf, flag leaf, 1152
stem and panicle (A); Tissue-specific 13C assimilation of rice at flowering stage (68 days), at 1153
early grain filling stage (75 days) and at late grain filling stage (88 days), for which soil-grown 1154
plants were labelled with 400 µL L-1 13CO2 for 10 minutes and directly harvested for 1155
assessment of 13C enrichment (B); Morphology of the studied plants with identified carbon 1156
assimilation routes (C); Time-resolved carbon assimilation and translocation of rice plants at 1157
late grain filling stage (88 days), for which soil-grown plants were labelled with 400 µL L-1 1158 13CO2 for 10 minutes and directly harvested, or further cultivated at ambient air for 2, 4, 24 1159
and 48 hours prior to harvesting (D). In all cases, 13C enrichment of freeze-dried plant 1160
material is displayed as δ13C (‰), corrected for natural labelling. Mean values ± SD (n = 3) 1161
are shown. Different letters (a, b, c) indicate significant differences between means (P ≤ 0.05, 1162
one-way ANOVA with Tukey`s test) of sampled organs at the respective time points. The full 1163
data sets of these experiments are given in Table S1 and Table S2. 1164
1165
Figure 5: Incorporation of 13C into protein amino acids upon 13CO2 labelling. Enrichment of 1166
extracted amino acids was analysed by GC-C-IRMS. Time-resolved pattern of a rice seedling 1167
(upper panels, age of 12 days) and an adult rice plant at late grain filling (lower panels, age 1168
of 88 days), for which soil-grown plants were labelled with 400 µL L-1 13CO2 for 10 minutes 1169
and then directly harvested, or further cultivated at ambient air for 2, 4, 24 and to 48 hours 1170
prior to harvesting. Statistical analysis was conducted using the Student`s t-test, whereby 1171
significant differences (P ≤ 0.05) between seedling and adult leaf are marked with an asterisk 1172
(A); Tissue-resolved pattern of an adult rice plant at late grain filling, for which plants were 1173
labelled with 400 µL L-1 13CO2 for 10 minutes, followed by 24 hour cultivation at ambient air 1174
prior to harvesting of leaf, flag leaf, stem and panicle. Statistical analysis was done by one-1175
way ANOVA with Tukey`s test, whereby different letters (a, b, c) indicate significant 1176
differences between means of the different tissues (B); Tissue specific amino acid 1177
metabolism, visualized as Venn diagram, which displays the relation of amino acids, based 1178
on the statistical significance between measured 13C enrichments. Significant differences 1179
between means of amino acid 13C enrichments (P ≤ 0.05) were determined by one-way 1180
ANOVA with Tukey`s test. Amino acids that do not show significantly different 13C 1181
enrichment, are located in equally coloured ellipses (C). The enrichment data are provided 1182
as mean values (n = 3) and reflect atom percent excess (APE), corrected for natural 1183
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isotopes. The full data sets are given in Table S5, Table S6 and Table S7, respectively. To 1184
facilitate comparison, the data are normalised for the highest enrichment of the respective 1185
data set, which was set 100% and visualized by a color code between yellow (0%) and red 1186
(100%). Abbreviations: SDL (seedling shoot), G6P (glucose 6-phosphate), RU5P (ribulose 1187
1,5-bisphosphate), R5P (ribose 5-phosphate), E4P (erythrose 4-phosphate), F6P (fructose 6-1188
phosphate), GAP (glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate), 3PG (3-phosphoglycerate), PEP 1189
(phosphoenolpyruvate), PYR (pyruvate), OAA (oxaloacetate), CIT (citrate), 2OG (2-1190
oxoglutarate), SUC (succinate), FUM (fumarate), MAL (malate). Amino acid abbreviations 1191
are according to the three letter code. 1192
1193
Figure 6: Integrated analysis of carbon and nitrogen metabolism by combined labelling of 1194
hydroponically-grown rice seedlings with 13CO2 and 15NH4NO3. Tissue specific enrichment of 1195
extracted amino acids was quantified by GC-C-IRMS. Integrated view on transport and 1196
biosynthetic routes of Ala, Gly, Ser, Glu/Gln, Asp/Asn and Pro regarding assimilated 13C 1197
(light grey) and 15N (dark grey) labelling (A), assessed in shoot (B) and root (C) is 1198
represented by bar graphs over the first four hours of tracing. The data reflect mean values ± 1199
SD (n = 3). At the age of 12 days, rice seedlings were simultaneously labelled with 400 µl L-1 1200 13CO2 and 1.43 mM 15NH4NO3 for 10 minutes and then either harvested directly for 1201
assessment of label assimilation, or further cultivated at ambient air for 2 to 4 hours for 1202
assessment of label translocation. Asterisks indicate significant differences between mean 1203
values at P ≤ 0.05 (Student`s t-test). n.s., not significant. The full data set is given in Table 1204
S8. 1205
1206
Figure 7: Mode-of-action analysis on the effect of the herbicide imazapyr on rice seedlings 1207
using 13CO2 labelling in combination with EA-C-IRMS to assess carbon assimilation (A) and 1208
with GC-C-IRMS to assess 13C enrichment of extracted proteinogenic amino acids (B). The 1209
experimental set-up contained seedlings at the age of 12 days, subjected to imazapyr (62.5 g 1210
ha-1 active ingredient) or control treatment (62.5 g ha-1 of control solution). Four hours after 1211
the treatment, seedlings were labelled for 10 minutes with 400 µL L-1 13CO2. The assimilation 1212
of 13C, determined immediately after the labelling pulse from freeze-dried plant material, is 1213
expressed as δ13C (‰), corrected for natural isotopes. The enrichment of extracted amino 1214
acids was determined after two hours of further cultivation at ambient air. The δ13C-values of 1215
the amino acids of imazapyr-treated rice seedlings were normalized to those of the control 1216
seedlings. The phenotype of rice seedlings, seven days after treatment with the control 1217
solution (left plant) and the imazapyr solution (right plant) is shown in (C). Asterisks indicate 1218
significant differences between mean values of imazapyr-treated and control plants at P ≤ 1219
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0.05 (Student`s t-test). n.s., not significant. Mean values ± SD (n = 3) are shown. The full 1220
data sets are given in Table S9 and Table S10. 1221
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