Effects of silicon on growth processes and adaptive potential of barley plants under optimal soil watering and flooding |
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Authors: | Tamara I Balakhnina Vladimir V Matichenkov Teresa Wlodarczyk Aneta Borkowska Magdalena Nosalewicz Irina R Fomina |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, 142290, Russia;(2) Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doswiadczalna 4, 20-290 Lublin, Poland;(3) Biosphere Systems International Foundation, Tucson, AZ 85755, USA |
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Abstract: | Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) was grown in pots with brown loess soil and highly soluble amorphous silicon dioxide as the source of monosilicic acid
to examine its influence on plant growth and adaptive potential under optimal soil watering and flooding. The adaptive potential
of plants was estimated by the concentration of the thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARs) as well as superoxide
dismutase (SOD), guaiacol peroxidase (GPX) and ascorbate peroxidase (AsP) activities. Application of amorphous silica to the
soil increased the Si content in barley shoots and roots and stimulated their growth and biomass production under optimal
soil watering. Soil flooding suppressed the growth both of the (−Si)- and (+Si)-plants. The intensity of oxidative destruction
estimated by the concentration of TBARs was lower in the roots and leaves of the (+Si)-plants. Soil flooding induced SOD activity
in the roots and in the leaves of the (−Si;+flooding) and (+Si;+flooding)-plants, but no significant differences were observed
due to the Si treatment. GPX activity in the roots of (+Si)-plants was higher than in the (−Si)-ones under optimal soil watering,
but under soil flooding no differences between (+Si)- and (−Si)-treatments were observed. AsP activity was not influenced
by Si treatment neither under optimal soil watering nor under flooding. Thus, application of Si stimulates growth processes
of barley shoots and roots under optimal soil watering and decreases intensity of oxidative destruction under soil flooding
without significant changes in the activities of antioxidant enzymes. |
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