Effect of Coronatine on Antioxidant Enzyme Response of Chickpea Roots to Combination of PEG-Induced Osmotic Stress and Heat Stress

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2013

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Springer

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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess

Özet

Abiotic stresses, such as high temperature and drought, are major limiting factors of crop production and growth. Coronatine (COR), a structural and functional analog of jasmonates, is suggested to have a role in abiotic stress tolerance. The aim of our study was to examine whether pretreatment with COR enhances the tolerance of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L. cv ICC 4958) roots to PEG-induced osmotic stress, heat stress, and their combination. Therefore, seedlings raised hydroponically in a growth chamber for 15 days were pretreated with or without COR at 0.01 mu M for 24 h and then exposed to 6 % PEG 6000-induced osmotic stress or heat (starting at 35 A degrees C and then gradually increased 1 A degrees C every 15 min and kept at 44 A degrees C for 1 h) stress for 3 days. After different treatment periods, the changes in relative growth rate (RGR); malondialdehyde (MDA), proline (Pro), and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) contents; and the activities of antioxidant enzymes/isoenzymes in roots of chickpea seedlings with or without 0.01 mu M COR application were studied. RGR in roots was increased by COR application. Under all stress conditions, H2O2, MDA, and Pro levels increased sharply, but pretreatment with COR significantly reduced them. Moreover, COR increased the activities of H2O2 scavenger enzymes such as catalase (CAT) under heat stress, ascorbate peroxidase (POX) under PEG stress, and CAT and POX under combined stresses. Therefore, COR might alleviate adverse effects of PEG stress and heat stress and combined stresses on roots of chickpea by reduction of H2O2 production, enhancing or keeping the existent activity of antioxidant enzymes, thereby preventing membrane peroxidation.

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Antioxidant enzymes, Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), Coronatine, Heat, PEG-induced osmotic stress, Root

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Journal of Plant Growth Regulation

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Q2

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32

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1

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