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JOURNAL OF BRYOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue -, Pages 281-286Publisher
MANEY PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1179/037366803225013155
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bryophyte; moss; desiccation; superoxide dismutase; catalase; Atrichum androgynum; hardening
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The effects of treatments that increase desiccation tolerance were tested on the activity of the enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) in the moss A trichum androgynum subjected to a drying/wetting cycle. Hardening by both abscisic acid (ABA) pretreatment and partial dehydration significantly increased the rate of recovery of photosynthesis during rehydration following desiccation. Hardening treatments had little effect on SOD activity. In non-hardened plants, SOD activity increased three-fold during desiccation for 32 h at 52% rh, but hardened material tended to display smaller increases in activity. During rehydration, SOD activities rapidly declined to their initial values in all treatments. Hardening by partial dehydration, but not ABA, reduced CAT activity. After desiccation for 32 h, material from all treatments displayed about half the initial CAT activity, and activity did not change during subsequent rehydration. Results show that, while the induction of SOD appears to play a role in desiccation tolerance, a similar induction occurred in both hardened and non-hardened mosses. Induction of greater activities of enzymes that scavenge reactive oxygen species is not responsible for the added tolerance induced by hardening treatments.
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