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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 167, Issue -, Pages 884-900Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2021.09.015
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Antioxidant compounds; Nutrients; Organic acid; Oxidative stress; Vegetable
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- King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [RSP-2021/180]
- Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province [2018JQ5218]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Top Young Talents of Shaanxi Special Support Program [51809224]
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The study found that boron toxicity suppresses growth in coriander plants while increasing levels of antioxidative substances. However, the application of NPK and GA(3) in the soil helped alleviate boron toxicity and improve plant growth and antioxidant capabilities.
It was aimed to examine the role of gibberellic acid (GA(3)) and NPK fertilizer in alleviating boron (B) toxicity in coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) plants. Two weeks old C. sativum seedlings were subjected to different NPK fertilizers [low NPK (30 kg ha(-1)) and normal NPK (60 kg ha (-1))], which were also supplied by GA3 (50 mg L-1), under varying levels of B i.e., 0, 200 and 400 mg kg(-1) in the soil. Results revealed that B toxicity led to a substantial decreased in the plant growth and biomass, photosynthetic pigments, gas exchange characteristics, sugars and essential nutrients in the roots and shoots of C. sativum seedlings. However, B toxicity boosted the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by increasing the contents of malondialdehyde (MDA), which is the indication of oxidative stress in C. sativum seedlings and was also manifested by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) contents and electrolyte leakage (EL) to the membrane bounded organelles. Although, activities of various antioxidative enzymes like superoxidase dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), catalase (CAT) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX), non-enzymatic antioxidants like phenolic, flavonoid, ascorbic acid and anthocyanin contents and organic acids from the roots such as oxalic acid, malic acid, formic acid, citric acid, acetic acid and fumaric acid contents were increased with the increasing levels of B in the soil. The application if NPK and GA(3) mitigated B toxicity by stimulated plant growth and biomass, photosynthetic efficiency, nutritional status and antioxidant machinery of the plant by decreasing MDA contents, H2O2 initiation and EL (%) in the roots and leaves of C. sativum seedlings. In addition, the application of NPK and GA(3) further decreased the organic acids exudation contents in the roots C. sativum seedlings. Research findings, therefore, suggested that NPK and GA(3) application
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