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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 188, Issue -, Pages 12-20Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2022.08.004
Keywords
Fe deficiency chlorosis; Ferric chelate reductase; Fertilizers; Foliar treatments; Mineral composition; Organic acids
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- Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) [UID/Multi/04326/2019, UIDB/04326/2020, UIDP/04326/2020, LA/P/0101/2020]
- CRESC Algarve 2020
- COMPETE 2020 through project EMBRC [ALG-01-0145-FEDER-022121]
- FCT [SFRH/BD/144764/2019, REEQ/717/QUI/2005]
- COMPETE 2020 through project EMBRC. PT
- Spanish Research Agency - MCIN/AEI [PID2020-115856RB-100]
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The economic costs and environmental impacts of iron-chelate treatments have led researchers to explore alternative methods for controlling iron deficiency chlorosis. This study examined the effects of applying malic acid, citric acid, and succinic acid to strawberry plants and found that succinic acid improved chlorophyll levels and altered the overall nutritional balance in the plants.
The large economic costs and environmental impacts of iron-chelate treatments has led to the search for alter-native methods and compounds to control iron (Fe) deficiency chlorosis. Strawberry plants (Fragaria x ananassa) were grown in Hoagland's nutrient solution in a greenhouse with two levels of Fe: 0 and 10 mu M Fe(III)-EDDHA. After 20 days, plants growing without Fe showed typical symptoms of Fe deficiency chlorosis in young leaves. Then, the adaxial and abaxial sides of one mature or one young leaf in each plant were brushed with 10 mM malic (MA), citric (CA) or succinic (SA) acids. Eight applications were done over a two-week period. At the end of the experiment, the newly emerged (therefore untreated), young and mature leaves were sampled for nutritional and metabolomic analysis, to assess the effectiveness of treatments. Leaf regreening was monitored using a SPAD-502 apparatus, and the activity of the ferric chelate-reductase activity (FCR) was measured using root tips. Iron deficiency negatively affected biomass and leaf chlorophyll but did not increase FCR activity. Application of succinic acid alleviated the decrease in chlorophyll observed in other treatments, and the overall nutritional balance in the plant was also changed. The concentrations of two quinic acid derivatives increased under Fe deficiency and decreased in plants treated with succinic acid, and thus they are proposed as Fe stress markers. Data suggest that foliage treatments with carboxylates may be, in some cases, environmentally friendly alter-natives to Fe(III)-chelates. The importance of Fe mobilization pathways in the formulation of new fertilizers is also discussed.
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