Abstract
Soil salinity affects plant growth and development by way of osmotic stress. Compatible osmolytes are potent osmoprotectants that playa role in counteracting the effect of saline stress. Proline biosynthesis and catabolism were investigated in both the control and salt stressed calli. Proline content showed a steady increase in the calli of all NaCI treated media. Calli on CaCl2 containing media did not show any increase in proline level compared to control calli. When the salinized media were supplemented with CaCl2 the proline level drastically increased compared to the corresponding calli grown on salt alone. Similarly, the activity of proline biosynthetic enzyme, pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase (P5CS) under salt stress was higher in NaCl + CaCl2 supplemented medium than the calli on the salinized medium alone. This suggested that the alleviation effect of calcium under saline condition was through modulation of the enzyme complexes that accelerate the rate of proline biosynthesis under salt stress. Similarly, the activity of proline degrading enzyme, proline oxidase was found to be lower in calli of all salt stressed media than control.
Abbreviations
- MS:
-
Murashige & Skoog
- P5CDH:
-
pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase
- P5CR:
-
pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase
- P5CS:
-
pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase
- PO:
-
proline oxidase
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Murugan, K., Sathish, D.K. Ameliorative Effect by Calcium on NaCI Salinity Stress Related to Proline Metabolism in the Callus of Centella asiatica L. J. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol. 14, 205–207 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03263248
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