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JOURNAL OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATION
Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 1094-1109Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s00344-019-09916-x
Keywords
Boron stress; Boron tolerance; Oxidative defense system; Antioxidant enzymes; Non-enzymatic antioxidants
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- Harran University [HUBAK-18057]
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Two independent experiments were performed to assess the role of thiourea (TU)-mediated nitric oxide (NO) in mitigating boron toxicity (BT) in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Pandas) and durum wheat (Triticum durum cv. Altntoprak 98) plants. In the first experiment, plants of the two wheat species were grown under control (0.05mM B) and BT (0.2mM B) supplied to nutrient solution for 4weeks after germination. These two treatments were also combined with TU spray at 200 or 400mgL(-1) once a week during the period of stress. Boron toxicity reduced dry weights of shoot and root, leaf total chlorophyll, efficiency of photosystem II (F-v/F-m) and leaf relative water content, whereas it increased endogenous nitric oxide (NO), nitric oxide synthase (NOS), electrolyte leakage (EL), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), malondialdehyde (MDA) and leaf B content. Reductions in total dry matter were 33% and 61% of control in cvs. Pandas and Altintoprak, respectively. Exogenous application of TU improved the plant growth attributes and led to further increases in NO in the leaves. An additional experiment was set up to further understand whether or not TU mediated NO production played a significant role in mitigation of BT using 0.1mM scavenger of NO, 2-(4-carboxyphenyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl-3-oxide potassium salt (cPTIO) combined with the TU treatments by spraying once a week for 4weeks. TU-induced BT tolerance was totally eliminated by cPTIO by reversing endogenous NO levels. BT enhanced the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD; EC 1.15.1.1), catalase (CAT; EC. 1.11.1.6), peroxidase (POD; EC. 1.11.1.7) and lipoxygenase (LOX; EC. 1.12.11.12) as well as the contents of soluble sugars (SS), soluble proteins and phenols, but decreased NR. TU treatments enhanced enzyme activities, but reduced contents of soluble sugars (SS), soluble protein and phenols. The present results clearly indicate that TU mediated endogenous NO significantly improved BT tolerance of wheat plants. This evidence was also supported by the increase in hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and malondialdehyde (MDA) as well as plant growth inhibition with the application of TU combined with cPTIO.
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