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JOURNAL OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATION
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 683-700Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00344-018-9882-z
Keywords
Antioxidant defence; Abiotic stress; Oxidative stress
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- Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)
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In this study, antioxidant processes were searched for in macrophyte duckweed to investigate tolerance mechanisms in this species against oxidative damage caused by salinity stress. Biochemical and histological analyses were performed on four Lemna aequinoctialis clones grown in Schenk-Hildebrandt medium, 0.5xSH, supplemented with 1% sucrose liquid medium containing or not containing NaCl in different NaCl concentrations (0, 25 and 50mM). For most clones, the salt stress effects caused growth inhibition and antioxidant responses at 50mM NaCl. Also, starch and reducing sugar accumulations were increased with salt, whereas the photosynthetic pigment content was reduced in clone L. aequinoctialis 5569. The plant growth inhibition reflects the oxidative stress shown by the significant increase in malondialdehyde (MDA) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) content. In the L. aequinoctialis 5568 clone, with the highest MDA levels, no antioxidant enzymatic activity was observed. The L. aequinoctialis 5570 clone presented higher ascorbate peroxidase and catalase activities in parallel, indicating that the efficiency of the defence mechanism relies on synchrony between such enzyme activities toward successive elimination of reactive oxygen species and resulting in the assurance of some level of protection of the metabolism from oxidative damage. Considering the moderate salt stress (25mM), the maintenance of MDA content and small growth inhibition associated with the high starch production suggested the acclimation efficiency of L. aequinoctialis 5570 and 5567 clones, indicating that they may be suitable for cultivation under moderate saline conditions, serving as biofuel feedstock. In addition, this study demonstrates great intraspecific phenotypic plasticity of duckweed, L. aequinoctialis, from closely related clones.
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