Physiological and biochemical responses of seedlings of six contrasting barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cultivars grown under salt-stressed conditions
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Salinity stress affects plant growth and development and underlying metabolisms. To mitigate the effects of the stress, plants responded by changing their physiological and biochemical activities and withstand the stress. The present study aimed to determine barley's (Hordeum vulgare L.) physiological and biochemical response to salinity stress conditions for 7 days and 14 days. Six barley cultivars (Alfa93, DWRB73, DL88, NB1, NB3, NDB1173) were grown under controlled conditions, and different level of salinity stress was applied. In addition, seedling growth, physiological and biochemical parameters, plant leaves RWC, and electrolyte leakage were analyzed. The overall seedling growth, RWC, and electrolyte leakage in salt susceptible lines Alfa93 and DWRB73 were low than the salt-tolerant barley lines (DL88, NB1, NB3, and NDB1173). Electrolyte leakage was 26.0 and 20.6% in Alfa93 and DWRB73, whereas it was 17.6, 14.6, 15.3, and 10.4% in DL88, NB1, NB3, and NDB1173, respectively at 300 mM salinity stress. The loss of photosynthetic pigments under salt stress was high in susceptible lines, salinity treated (300 mM NaCl) Alfa93 plants exhibit 49.5% and 59.5% of Chl-a than control plants after 7 and 14 days of treatment, respectively. However, at 300 mM stress level, NB1 (ST) showed less Chl-a loss after 7 days, whereas NDB1173 showed less reduction in Chl-a after 14 days. Antioxidant enzymes such as SOD, POX, CAT, and APX activities in susceptible line Alfa93 and DWRB73 were lower than tolerant lines. PCA analysis demonstrated a positive correlation between antioxidant enzyme activities and genotypes under salinity stress. PCA analysis described DL88 as the most tolerant, and DWRB73 was the most salt susceptible genotype among the studied barley genotypes. The present findings suggest that barley cultivars' physiological and biochemical activities under salinity stress conditions may be used to screen salt-tolerant crops.
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Antioxidant enzymes, Barley, Chlorophyll, Eelectrolyte leakage, RWC, Salt stress
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Bajji, M., Kinet, J.-M.& Lutts, S. (2001). The use of the electrolyte leakage method for assessing cell membrane stability as a water stress tolerance test in durum wheat. Plant Growth Regulation, 36(1), 61–70. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014732714549
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Chance, B.&Maehly, A. C. (1955). Assay of catalases and peroxidases. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0076-6879(55)0230 0-8
Costache, M. A., Campeanu, G.& Neata, G. (2012). Studies concerning the extraction of chlorophyll and total carotenoids from vegetables. Romanian Biotechnological Letters, 17(5), 7702–7708.
Dhindsa, R. S., Plumb-Dhindsa, P.& Thorpe, T. A. (1981). Leaf senescence: Correlated with increased levels of membrane permeability and lipid peroxidation, and decreased levels of superoxide dismutase and catalase. Journal of Experimental Botany, 32(1), 93–101. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/32.1.93
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Nakano, Y.& Asada, K. (1981). Hydrogen peroxide is scavenged by ascorbate-specific peroxidase in spinach chloroplasts. Plant and Cell Physiology, 22(5), 867–880. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a076232
Noreen, S., Sultan, M., Akhter, M. S., Shah, K. H., Ummara, U., Manzoor, H., Ulfat, M., Alyemeni, M. N.& Ahmad, P. (2021). Foliar fertigation of ascorbic acid and zinc improves growth, antioxidant enzyme activity and harvest index in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) grown under salt stress. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 158, 244–254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.11.007
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Pour-Aboughadareh, A., Etminan, A., Abdelrahman, M., Siddique, K. H.& Tran, L.-S. P. (2020). Assessment of biochemical and physiological parameters of durum wheat genotypes at the seedling stage during polyethylene glycol-induced water stress. Plant Growth Regulation, 92(1), 81–93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10725-020-00621-4
Soni, S., Kumar, A., Sehrawat, N., Kumar, A., Kumar, N., Lata, C.& Mann, A. (2021). Effect of saline irrigation on plant water traits, photosynthesis and ionic balance in durum wheat genotypes. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 28(4), 2510–2517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.20 21.01.052
Tanou, G., Molassiotis, A.& Diamantidis, G. (2009). Induction of reactive oxygen species and necrotic death-like destruction in strawberry leaves by salinity. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 65(2–3), 270–281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2008.09.005
Tuna, A. L., Kaya, C., Ashraf, M., Altunlu, H., Yokas, I.& Yagmur, B. (2007). The effects of calcium sulphate on growth, membrane stability and nutrient uptake of tomato plants grown under salt stress. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 59(2), 173–178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2005.12.007
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Xie, Y.-J., Xu, S., Han, B., Wu, M.-Z., Yuan, X.-X., Han, Y., Gu, Q., Xu, D.-K., Yang, Q.& Shen, W.-B. (2011). Evidence of Arabidopsis salt acclimation induced by up-regulation of HY1 and the regulatory role of RbohD-derived reactive oxygen species synthesis. The Plant Journal, 66(2), 280–292. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-313x.2011.04488.x
Yassin, M., El Sabagh, A., Mekawy, A. M. M., Islam, M. S., Hossain, A., Barutcular, C., Alharby, H., Bamagoos, A., Liu, L.& Ueda, A. (2019). Comparative performance of two bread wheat (Triticum aestivumL.) genotypes under salinity stress. Appl. Ecol. Environ. Res, 17, 5029–5041. http://dx.doi.org/10.15666/aeer/1702_50295041
Zeeshan, M., Lu, M., Sehar, S., Holford, P.& Wu, F. (2020). Comparison of biochemical, anatomical, morphological, and physiological responses to salinity stress in wheat and barley genotypes deferring in salinity tolerance. Agronomy, 10(1), 127. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy 10010 127
Zhu, J., Fan, Y., Shabala, S., Li, C., Lv, C., Guo, B., Xu, R.& Zhou, M. (2020). Understanding mechanisms of salinity tolerance in barley by proteomic and biochemical analysis of near-isogenic lines. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(4), 1516. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21 041516
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Physiological and biochemical responses of seedlings of six contrasting barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cultivars grown under salt-stressed conditions . (2021). Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 13(3), 1020-1031. https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.v13i3.2863
