Low Root Zone Temperature Exacerbates the Ion Imbalance and Photosynthesis Inhibition and Induces Antioxidant Responses in Tomato Plants Under Salinity

HEYong, YANGJing, ZHUBiao , ZHUZhu-jun

Journal of Integrative Agriculture ›› 2014, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (1) : 89-99. DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(13)60586-9
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Low Root Zone Temperature Exacerbates the Ion Imbalance and Photosynthesis Inhibition and Induces Antioxidant Responses in Tomato Plants Under Salinity

  •  HE Yong, YANG Jing, ZHU Biao , ZHU Zhu-jun
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The combined effects of salinity with low root zone temperature (RZT) on plant growth and photosynthesis were studied in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants. The plants were exposed to two different root zone temperatures (28/20°C, 12/8°C, day/night temperature) in combination with two NaCl levels (0 and 100 mmol L-1). After 2 wk of treatment, K+ and Na+ concentration, leaf photosynthetic gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence and leaf antioxidant enzyme activities were measured. Salinity significantly decreased plant biomass, net photosynthesis rate, actual quantum yield of photosynthesis and concentration of K+, but remarkably increased the concentration of Na+. These effects were more pronounced when the salinity treatments were combined with the treatment of low RZT conditions. Either salinity or low RZT individually did not affect maximal efficiency of PSII photochemistry (Fv/Fm), while a combination of these two stresses decreased Fv/Fm considerably, indicating that the photo-damage occurred under such conditions. Non-photochemical quenching was increased by salt stress in accompany with the enhancement of the de-epoxidation state of the xanthophyll cycle, in contrast, this was not the case with low RZT applied individually. Salinity stress individually increased the activities of SOD, APX, GPOD and GR, and decreased the activities of DHAR. Due to the interactive effects of salinity with low RZT, these five enzyme activities increased sharply in the combined stressed plants. These results indicate that low RZT exacerbates the ion imbalance, PSII damage and photosynthesis inhibition in tomato plants under salinity. In response to the oxidative stress under salinity in combination with low RZT, the activities of antioxidant enzymes SOD, APX, GPOD, DHAR and GR were clearly enhanced in tomato plants.

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antioxidant enzyme

/ chlorophyll fluorescence / ion concentration / low root zone temperature / PSII / salinity

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HEYong, YANGJing, ZHUBiao , ZHUZhu-jun. Low Root Zone Temperature Exacerbates the Ion Imbalance and Photosynthesis Inhibition and Induces Antioxidant Responses in Tomato Plants Under Salinity. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 2014, 13(1): 89-99 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2095-3119(13)60586-9

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31101585), the Cucurbit Vegetable Innovation Strategic Alliance Fund of Zhejiang Province, China (20101107), the Vegetable Innovation Group Fund of Zhejiang Province, China (2009R50026) and the Zhejiang A&F University Science Development Fund, China (2009FR059).

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