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Polyphasic OKJIP Chlorophyll a Fluorescence Transient in a Landrace and a Commercial Cultivar of Sweet Pepper (Capsicum annuum, L.) under Long-Term Salt Stress

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PLANTS-BASEL
卷 10, 期 5, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants10050887

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JIP test; Kautsky effect; photosynthesis; PSII photosystem; salinity; stress tolerance

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  1. Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), project GenHORT [PON02-00395-3215002]

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In a long-term salt-stress experiment, the commercial sweet pepper cultivar showed higher tolerance to the detriment of PSII structure and function compared to the landrace, with the performance index decreasing earlier than the maximum quantum yield of PSII. PSII was more affected than PSI, but PSI functionality recovered in the late phase of the trial.
In a soilless long-term salt-stress experiment, we tested the differences between the commercial sweet pepper cultivar Quadrato d'Asti and the landrace Cazzone Giallo in the structure and function of PSII through the JIP test analysis of the fast chlorophyll fluorescence transients (OKJIP). Salt stress inactivated the oxygen-evolving complex. Performance index detected the stress earlier than the maximum quantum yield of PSII, which remarkably decreased in the long term. The detrimental effects of salinity on the oxygen evolving-complex, the trapping of light energy in PSII, and delivering in the electron transport chain occurred earlier and more in the landrace than the cultivar. Performance indexes decreased earlier than the maximum quantum yield of PSII. Stress-induced inactivation of PSII reaction centers reached 22% in the cultivar and 45% in the landrace. The resulted heat dissipation had the trade-off of a correspondent reduced energy flow per sample leaf area, thus an impaired potential carbon fixation. These results corroborate the reported higher tolerance to salt stress of the commercial cultivar than the landrace in terms of yield. PSII was more affected than PSI, which functionality recovered in the late of trial, especially in the cultivar, possibly due to heat dissipation mechanisms. This study gives valuable information for breeding programs aiming to improve tolerance in salt stress sensitive sweet pepper genotypes.

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