Salicylic acid induced physiological and biochemical changes in wheat seedlings under water stress

Salicylic acid (SA) is an important signal molecule modulating plantresponses to stress. It is recently reported to induce multiple stresstolerancein plants including drought. An experiment was, therefore, conducted toascertain the effect of salicylic acid on the growth and metabolic profile ofwheat seedlings under water stress. Irrespective of the SA concentration(1–3 mM) and water stress, SA treated plants showed, ingeneral, a higher moisture content, dry mass, carboxylase activity of Rubisco,superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and total chlorophyll compared to those ofuntreated seedlings. SA treatment, under water stress, protected nitratereductase (NR) activity and maintained, especially at 3 mM SAconcentration, the protein and nitrogen content of leaves compared to watersufficient seedlings. Results signify the role of SA in regulating the droughtresponse of plants and suggest that SA could be used as a potential growthregulator, for improving plant growth under water stress.     

Salicylic acid induces physiological and biochemical changes in three Red bayberry (Myric rubra) genotypes under water stress

Water stress is one of the main environmental stresses that affect plant growth and development. Salicylic acid (SA) induces water stress tolerance in plants. In this study, the effect of exogenous SA on physiological and biochemical process in Red bayberry (Myric rubra) seedlings, of three different genotypes, that were grown under water stress (soil ranging from 20 to 50 % of field capacity) was evaluated. Results showed that water stress severely affected the relative water content (RWC), photosynthesis, stomatal conductance and enzymes activities. Genotypes differed in RWC, Chlorophyll content, gas exchange parameter, antioxidant enzymes activities and proline, and the genotype Biqi had the RWC, photosynthesis, stomatal conductance and enzymes activities greater than the other two genotypes Wangdao and Shenhong. SA treated plants showed, in general, a higher RWC, chlorophyll content, photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, superoxide dismutase activity and proline content, and a lower relative electrolyte conductivity, methane dicarboxylic aldehyde content and catalase activity compared to those of untreated seedlings. These results signified the role of SA in diminishing the negative effects of drought on Red bayberry plants and suggest that SA could be used as a potential growth regulator, for improving plant growth under water stress.     

Salicylic acid induces physiological and biochemical changes in Torreya grandis cv. Merrillii seedlings under drought stress

Key message

SA treatment effectively ameliorated the negative effect of moderate drought stress on T. grandis Seedlings through increasing the water content, Pn, proline content, antioxidant enzymes activity and reducing MDA.

Abstract

Water availability is one of the most critical factors that limits the growth and development of plants. Salicylic acid (SA) is an important signal molecule that modulates plant responses to abiotic stress. To elucidate the regulating mechanism of exogenous SA on Torreya grandis cv. Merrillii under different water stresses, a pot experiment was conducted in a greenhouse. Exposure of T. grandis seedlings to drought conditions resulted in reduced growth rate that was associated with a decline in water content and CO₂ assimilation. Foliar application of SA effectively increased the water content, net CO₂ assimilation rate, proline content and antioxidant enzymes activity in the plants, which helped T. grandis to acclimate to moderate drought stress and increase the shoot dry matter. However, when the plants were under severe drought stress, the relative water content and CO₂ assimilation in the SA-treated plants were significantly lower than those in the control plants. Therefore, our results indicated that SA can effectively ameliorate the negative effect of moderate drought stress on T. grandis seedling growth.     

水杨酸和热锻炼诱导的高羊茅幼苗的耐热性与抗氧化的关系

研究了水杨酸（SA）处理和热锻炼（HH）对高羊茅（Festuca arundinacea Schred.)幼苗耐热性的影响和在耐热性诱导过程中植物体内可溶性蛋白含量与超氧化物歧化酶（SOD）,过氧化的酶（POD）和过氧化氢酶（CAT）等3种抗氧化酶的活性变化。结果表明：0.5mmol/L男SA预处理能显著提高高羊茅幼苗在42℃热胁迫（HS）后转至常温下恢复生长18d时的苗高,绿叶数和绿叶指数;在常温下SA提高高羊茅幼苗的CAT活性,降低POD活性,而对SOD的影响不显著;SA和HH均能降低高羊茅幼苗在HS下细胞外渗液电导率,提高可溶性蛋白的含量和SOD、CAT活性,但不能显著提高POD活性。因此,推测SA与HH提高耐热性上具有相似的机理。     

Phospholipid changes in wheat and barley leaves under water stress

Total phospholipid content of leaves of wheat and barley increased and phospholipid components changed under water stress. Notable among these were the absence of phosphatidyl serine in barley varieties, decrease in phosphatidyl glycerol content in a less drought-tolerant variety of wheat (S-308) and barley (BG-25), and appearance of phosphatidic acid in both crops. The phospholipid content and its components did not return to normal upon release of the stress by subsequent irrigations. Such observations are indicative of water stress effected alterations in membranes.     

Morphological and biochemical changes in two parsley varieties upon water stress

The study was carried out to determine the responses of two parsley (Petroselinum crispum L.) hybrids; plain and curly- leafed to water stress. Besides the control, three irrigation treatments (10, 30 and 50 % of control water amount) were applied. Plant yield (leaf area, stem length and diameter, number of leaves) and quality (fresh and dry weights and concentrations of chlorophyll, carotenes, anthocyanins and vitamin C) were measured. The responses of plant yield and quality varied according to the hybrid and water treatment. The high quality was observed in curly- leafed parsley if compared to plain- leafed parsley, which had higher yield (stem length and diameter, leaf area). Moreover, water stress improved quality but decreased yield parameters in both hybrids.     

Salicylic acid and nitric oxide alleviate osmotic stress in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seedlings

Salicylic acid (SA) and nitric oxide (NO) are reported to alleviate the damaging effects of stress in plants rather similarly when applied at appropriate low concentrations. An experiment was therefore conducted to study the impact of SA, sodium nitroprusside (SNP; as NO donor), and methylene blue (MB; as a guanylate cyclase inhibitor) on wheat seedling performance under osmotic stress. Osmotic stress significantly reduced shoot fresh weight (SFW), chlorophyll contents (Chla, Chlb, total Chl), and membrane stability index (MSI) and also increased malondialdehyde (MDA) level, lipoxygenase (LOX) activity, and hydrogen peroxide production. Moreover, enzymatic antioxidant activities including superoxide dismutase, guaiacol peroxidase, and glutathione reductase activity were enhanced under osmotic stress. On the contrary, SA or SNP pretreatment reduced the damaging effects of osmotic stress by further enhancing the antioxidant activities that led to increased SFW, Chl, and MSI and reduced MDA level and LOX activity. However, pretreatment of plants with MB reversed or reduced the protective effects of SA and SNP suggesting that the protective effects were likely attributed to NO signaling. Therefore, NO may act as downstream of SA signaling in reduction of induced oxidative damage in wheat seedlings.     

Growth of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) in response to salicylic acid under water stress

Abstract

Plants of Lycopersicon esculentum L. cv. K-25 were subjected to water stress by withholding water for 10 days at 20 (WS I) and 30 (WS II) days after sowing (DAS). Seedlings were sprayed with double distilled water (DDW) or 10^?5M salicylic acid (SA) at 45 DAS. The water stress at earlier stage of growth (20 day stage) was more inhibitory as compared to the later stage (30 day stage). The plants exposed to water stress exhibited a significant (p<0.05) decline in photosynthetic parameters, membrane stability index (MSI), leaf water potential, activity of nitrate reductase (NR), carbonic anhydrase (CA), chlorophyll and relative water content (RWC). A follow-up treatment with SA protected against the stress generated by water and significantly improved the above parameters. However, proline content and antioxidant enzymes increased under drought as well as under SA treatments.     

Phosphatidylethanolamine in wheat and barley leaves under water stress

Phosphatidylethanolamine could not be detected in the leaves of less drought-tolerant varieties of wheat (S-308) and barley (BG-25) when the plants wer     

长药景天的叶龄与CAM活性

用CO_2分析。含酸量和PEP羧化酶活性测定的方法对长药景天(Sedum spectabile)光合型进行研究,其成熟叶浇水时表现为C_3型,干旱条件下转变成CAM型,但极度的干旱又使其CAM活性降低。浇水植株的幼叶PEP羧化酶活性和含酸量低,成熟叶较高。但在干旱过程中,幼叶酶活性和含酸量的增加比成熟叶更为显著,表明幼叶对水分胁迫更敏感。水分胁迫中,叶最大PEP羧化酶活性和最大含酸量在植株由下而上各叶位转移。     

Cell biological mechanism for triggering of ABA accumulation under water stress in Vicia faba leaves

Water stress-induced ABA accumulation is a cellular signaling process from water stress perception to activation of genes encoding key enzymes of ABA biosynthesis, of which the water stress-signal perception by cells or triggering mechanism of the ABA accumulation is the center in the whole process of ABA related-stress signaling in plants. The cell biological mechanism for triggering of ABA accumulation under water stress was studied in leaves of Vicia faba. Mannitol at 890 mmol · kg-1 osmotic concentration induced an increase of more than 5 times in ABA concentration in detached leaf tissues, but the same concentration of mannitol only induced an increase of less than 40 % in ABA concentration in protoplasts. Like in detached leaf tissues, ABA concentration in isolated cells increased more than 10 times under the treatment of mannitol at 890 mmol · kg-1 concentration, suggesting that the interaction between plasmalemma and cell wall was essential to triggering of the water stress-induced ABA accumula     

Gibberellic acid and kinetin partially reverse the effect of water stress on germination and seedling growth in chickpea

The percent germination and seedling growth of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L. cv. PBG-1) decreased with increasing concentrations of exogenous polyethylene glycol 6000 (PEG). With 15% PEG in the growth medium germination was only 33% while with 10% PEG it was 58% as compared to 93% in control. Addition of gibberellic acid (GA₃) and kinetin to medium containing 10% PEG increased the germination and seedling growth and the effect was maximum with 6 µM GA₃ which was a better inducer of growth and germination under reduced water potential than kinetin. However, indole acetic acid (IAA) inhibited germination and growth of stressed seedlings. The activity of amylase in cotyledons under stress was significantly increased with GA₃ while kinetin and IAA were less effective. Gibberellic acid also enhanced the mobilization of starch from cotyledons of stressed seedlings resulting in low starch levels in cotyledons compared with stressed seedlings.     

Alterations in glycolipids of wheat and barley leaves under water stress

Glycolipids of leaves from water-stressed and stress-recovered wheat and barley plants were studied. A decrease in the content of total glycolipid, mon     

水分胁迫对长期UV—B辐射下柚树苗生理特性的影响

水分胁迫下,柚[Citrus maxima(Burm.)Merr.]树苗叶片相对含水量（RWC）、水势（ΨW)、净光合速率（Pn)、可溶性蛋白质和叶绿素（Chl)含量下降,丙二醛（MDA）、脯氨酸（Pro)含量和超氧化物歧化酶（SOD）活性升高,过氧化氢酶（CAT）活性先上升后下降,抗坏血酸过氧化物酶（APX）活性、抗坏血酸（AsA)和还原型谷胱甘肽（GSH）含量明显降低。叶绿素荧光参数中光系统Ⅱ光化学原初效率（Fv/Fm)、光系统Ⅱ电子传递量子效率（ΦPSⅡ）和光化学猝灭（qp)下降,非光化学猝灭（qN)和热能耗散系数（KD）升高。显示膜系统和PSⅡ是水分胁迫的主要抑制位点。抗旱性强的品种具有较高的活性氧清除能力。长期紫外线－B（UV－B）增强辐射能缓解水分胁迫下柚树苗叶片RWC、ΨW、APX活性和GSH、AsA含量下降,但对水分胁迫下的Pro含量、Pn和叶绿素荧光特性作用不明显。初步推测：UV－B和水分胁迫对植物有部分相同的作用机制,都导致植株膜脂过氧化程度加剧和PSⅡ的失活,同时存在各自作用方式的特异性。     

Salicylic acid-induced changes to growth and phenolic metabolism in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Matricaria chamomilla</Emphasis> plants

The influence of salicylic acid (SA) doses of 50 and 250 μM, for a period of up to 7 days, on selected physiological aspects and the phenolic metabolism of Matricaria chamomilla plants was studied. SA exhibited both growth-promoting (50 μM) and growth-inhibiting (250 μM) properties, the latter being correlated with decrease of chlorophylls, water content and soluble proteins. In terms of phenolic metabolism, it seems that the higher SA dose has a toxic effect, based on the sharp increase in phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) activity (24 h after application), which is followed by an increase in total soluble phenolics, lignin accumulation and the majority of the 11 detected phenolic acids. Guaiacol-peroxidase activity was elevated throughout the experiment in 250 μM SA-treated plants. In turn, some responses can be explained by mechanisms associated with oxidative stress tolerance; these mitigate acute SA stress (which is indicated by an increase in malondialdehyde content). However, PAL activity decreased with prolonged exposure to SA, indicating its inhibition. Accumulation of coumarin-related compounds (umbelliferone and herniarin) was not affected by SA treatments, while (Z)- and (E)-2-β-d-glucopyranosyloxy-4-methoxycinnamic acids increased in the 250 μM SA-treated rosettes. Free SA content in the rosettes increased significantly only in the 250 μM SA treatment, with levels tending to decrease towards the end of the experiment and the opposite trend was observed in the roots.     

土壤水分对温室嫁接和非嫁接黄瓜生长与生理特性的影响

观测了黄瓜生长动态与生理特性对土壤水分状况的反应。结果表明,日光温室嫁接与未嫁接黄瓜分别在土壤相对含水量70％和80％时株高,叶面积和产量增长最快,土壤水分过高与过低均不利于黄瓜的生长;随土壤含水量降低;叶片光合速率,气孔导度,水势与根系活力的下降。     

干旱胁迫下外源水杨酸对黄瓜幼苗膜脂过氧化和光合特性的影响

为了探讨外源水杨酸(SA)提高植物抗旱性的相关机制,研究了干旱胁迫下(基质含水量为饱和持水量的60％和50％),根际施用外源SA对黄瓜幼苗生长、膜脂过氧化、脯氨酸积累、水分利用效率、净光合速率(Pn)和叶绿素荧光参数的影响.结果表明:SA处理能够缓解干旱胁迫对黄瓜幼苗生长、Pn和水分利用效率的抑制,减小膜脂过氧化程度,促进脯氨酸的积累;添加外源SA显著减小了干旱胁迫下黄瓜幼苗的PSⅡ最大光化学效率、PSⅡ实际光化学效率、PSⅡ潜在活性、PSⅡ有效光化学效率和光化学猝灭系数的下降幅度,抑制了非光化学猝灭系数的升高.添加外源SA可以缓解干旱胁迫造成的膜脂过氧化对膜系统的氧化损伤,并通过增强PSⅡ反应中心活性提高了Pn,有助于水分的利用,同时增大渗透调节能力,减少水分的散失,提高水分利用效率,从而增强植株对干旱的适应能力.     

水分胁迫对茅苍术根茎生长及挥发油含量的影响

通过控制茅苍术[Atractylodes lancea（Thunb．）DC．]不同生长期的土壤含水量,研究了轻度和重度干旱胁迫与涝渍胁迫对茅苍术根茎生长及挥发油含量的影响。结果表明,在不同生长期,茅苍术根茎生长和挥发油成分含量对不同土壤水分条件的反应不同,其中生殖生长期对水分胁迫较敏感,干旱和涝渍胁迫均会导致根茎生长量和挥发油含量下降。水分胁迫对茅苍术根茎生长量和挥发油含量的影响效应是一致的,导致根茎生长量显著下降的水分条件可使挥发油含量下降,对根茎生长量影响不显著的水分条件则有利于挥发油成分的积累。在果后期进行适当的涝渍胁迫（土壤含水量35．5％～38．5％）有利于茅苍术根茎生长和挥发油含量的提高。     

Zinc stress induces physiological,ultra-structural and biochemical changes in mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata Blanco) seedlings

Zinc (Zn) is an essential micronutrient for higher plants; yet, at higher concentrations it is toxic. In order to explore the effect of Zn stress on growth, biochemical, physiological and ultra-structural changes, 1 year old mandarin plants were grown under various Zn concentrations (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 15 and 20 mM) for 14 weeks. The biomass of the plants increased with increasing Zn concentrations and finally declined under excess Zn concentration but the prime increase was observed at 4 and 5 mM Zn. Zn stress reduced the photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance, and transpiration along with reduction of chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, and carotenoids content in leaf. Superoxide anion, malondialdehyde, hydrogen peroxide and electrolyte leakage were elevated in Zn stressed plants. The activities of ascorbate peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.11), catalase (EC 1.11.1.6), superoxide dismutase (EC 1.15.1.1) and peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.7) enzymes were increased in both Zn-deficient and Zn-excess plants. Therefore it is suggested that antioxidant defense system did not sufficiently protect the plants under rigorous Zn stress which was also corroborated by the alteration in cell ultrastructure as revealed by transmission electron microscopy.