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AGRONOMY-BASEL
Volume 13, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy13071903
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drought stress; methyl jasmonate; yield; rice quality; starch
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Exogenous application of 100 & mu;mol L-1 MeJA enhanced rice antioxidant capacity, improved starch physicochemical properties, and increased grain yield and quality under terminal drought stress. MeJA increased 1000-grain weight, filled grain percentage, and yield, while decreasing chalkiness degree and protein content. MeJA also improved starch physicochemical properties, such as breakdown viscosity and gelatinization enthalpy.
Exogenous application of methyl jasmonate (MeJA) improves rice drought tolerance, but its effects on rice yield and quality under drought stress during the reproductive phase remain unclear. A pot experiment was conducted to measure rice yield, grain quality, and starch physicochemical properties under three treatments: continuous flooding irrigation throughout the whole growth season (CF), ten days of -40 kPa drought stress at the heading stage (DS), and foliar spraying 100 & mu;mol L-1 MeJA on the first three days of the ten-day -40 kPa heading stage drought stress (DM). An inbred japonica rice variety, Huaidao 5, was the experimental material, and each treatment had 11 replicates for sampling. The results indicated that DS significantly reduced rice yield and quality compared to CF. With increases in superoxide dismutase (+22.2%), peroxidase activities (+10.5%), catalase (+5.0%), and proline content (+5.7%), DM significantly increased 1000-grain weight (+8.6%), filled grain percentage (+3.6%), and yield (+11.1%) compared with DS. Regarding grain quality, DM significantly decreased the chalkiness degree (-12.3%) and protein content (-3.9%) but increased the amylose content (+17.2%) and taste value (+7.3%) relative to DS. In addition, DM improved breakdown viscosity (+17.8%), gelatinization enthalpy (+17.2%), retrogradation enthalpy (+28.0%), 1045/1022 cm(-1) ratio (+3.0%), and starch granule morphology compared to DS. In conclusion, exogenous application of 100 & mu;mol L-1 MeJA enhanced the antioxidant capacity of rice leaves, and thus improved starch physicochemical properties to increase grain yield and quality under terminal drought stress.
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