Stimulating antioxidant defenses, antioxidant gene expression, and salt tolerance in Pisum sativum seedling by pretreatment using licorice root extract (LRE) as an organic biostimulant

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Plant extracts have recently been used as exogenous adjuvants to strengthen the endogenous plant defense systems when they grow under different environmental stresses, including salinity. The study aimed at determining the effects of seed soaking using licorice root extract (LRE) on photosynthesis and antioxidant defense systems, including transcript levels of enzyme-encoding genes in pea seedling grown under 150 mM NaCl-salinity. Salt stress reduced seedling growth, photosynthesis attributes, and K+ content, and increased oxidative stress (O2•‒ and H2O2, and MDA), Na+, and Cl-, along with an increase in antioxidative defense activities compared to control. However, LRE pretreatment enhanced seedling growth, photosynthetic attributes (chlorophylls, carotenoids, Fv/Fm, Pn, Tr, and gs), ascorbate and glutathione and their redox states, proline, soluble sugars, α-TOC, and enzyme activities compared to stressed control. LRE pretreatment also upregulated transcript levels of CAT-, SOD-, APX-, GR-, DHAR-, and PrxQ-encoding genes in salt-stressed seedlings, decreasing oxidative stress and Na+ and Cl- contents and increasing K+ content and K+/Na+ ratio.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:142

Enthalten in:

Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB - 142(2019) vom: 01. Sept., Seite 292-302

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Desoky, El-Sayed M [VerfasserIn]
ElSayed, Abdelaleim I [VerfasserIn]
Merwad, Abdel-Rahman M A [VerfasserIn]
Rady, Mostafa M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antioxidant enzymes
Antioxidants
Journal Article
Licorice
Pisum sativum
Plant Extracts
QRT-PCR
Salt stress

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Date Completed 26.11.2019

Date Revised 09.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.plaphy.2019.07.020

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM299630072