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PLANTS-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants12010191
Keywords
recretohalophytes; salt stress; drought stress; stress recovery; stress memory; osmolytes; ion transport; oxidative stress markers; antioxidant metabolites
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The study investigated the ability of Limonium angustebracteatum to cope with drought and salt stress. It was found that the plant had high salt tolerance but was sensitive to water deficit. The plant could recover from the first water stress and its salt tolerance was based on the accumulation of Na+, Cl-, and Ca2+ in the roots and leaves.
Limonium angustebracteatum is an endemic halophyte from the Spanish Mediterranean coastal salt marshes. To investigate this species' ability to cope with recurrent drought and salt stress, one-year-old plants were subjected to two salt stress treatments (watering with 0.5 and 1 M NaCl solutions), one water stress treatment (complete irrigation withholding), or watered with non-saline water for the control, across three phases: first stress (30 days), recovery from both stresses (15 days), and second stress (15 days). Growth and biochemical parameters were determined after each period. The plants showed high salt tolerance but were sensitive to water deficit, as shown by the decrease in leaf fresh weight and water content, root water content, and photosynthetic pigments levels in response to the first water stress; then, they were restored to the respective control values upon recovery. Salt tolerance was partly based on the accumulation of Na+, Cl- and Ca2+ in the roots and predominantly in the leaves; ion levels also decreased to control values during recovery. Organic osmolytes (proline and total soluble sugars), oxidative stress markers (malondialdehyde and H2O2), and antioxidant compounds (total phenolic compounds and flavonoids) increased by various degrees under the first salt and water stress treatments, and declined after recovery. The analysed variables increased again, but generally to a lesser extent, during the second stress phase, suggesting the occurrence of stress acclimation acquired by the activation of defence mechanisms during the first stress period.
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