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AGRONOMY-BASEL
Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy13092434
Keywords
Atriplex canescnes; drought stress; sodiumion; osmotic adjustment; chlorophyll fluorescence
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The moderate sodium salt could stimulate the growth of A. canescens and effectively alleviate the deleterious impact of drought stress by increasing the turgor potential and relative water content and decreasing the leaf water osmotic potential. Furthermore, the photosynthetic capacity was improved and the negative effects of drought stress on photosystem II were mitigated.
Atriplex canescens is widely cultivated as drought and salt-tolerant fodder in arid regions of Northwest China, which is used for photoremediation of degraded land and soil and water conservation. To explore the growth performance of A. canescens when exposed to drought and salt stress, seedlings were treated with a range of drought stress (WC1: 75 +/- 3.6%, WC2: 49 +/- 2.9% and WC3: 27 +/- 2.5% of soil water content) and the corresponding drought stress with additional sodium salt supplementation (NaCl:Na2SO4 = 1:1 with the total concentration of Na+ set to 150 mM). The findings of this paper indicated that moderate sodium salt could stimulate the growth of A. canescens and effectively alleviate the deleterious impact of drought stress by increasing the turgor potential (psi t) and relative water content (RWC) and decreasing the leaf water osmotic potential (psi s). Furthermore, the photosynthetic capacity was improved and the negative effects of drought stress on photosystem II (PSII) were mitigated. The extra 150 mM sodium salt also markedly increased the contribution of Na+ to s and the contribution of betaine to psi s. In summary, these results indicate that A. canescens can adapt to drought stress by accumulating enough Na+ for osmotic adjustment (OA). Additionally, this paper is aimed to provide a fundamental basis for the utilization and cultivation of A. canescens as a favored pasture crop in the Qaidam basin, thus increasing the ecological and environmental benefits for arid regions worldwide.
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