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Antioxidant responses of halophyte plant Aeluropus littoralis under long-term salinity stress

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Salinity influences the agricultural production all over the world. This constrain, similar to others biotic and abiotic stresses generate the reactive oxygen species such as superoxide, hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radicals. In the evolution process of halophyte plants the mechanisms to detoxify ROS, such as antioxidant enzymes, have been developed. Aeluropus littoralis is a special halophyte that selected to our research, so the plants treated with NaCl at different salt concentration (0, 250, 450 and 650 mM) for a period 45 days. Leaves and roots (separately) collected and their proteins extracted for superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), ascorbate peroxidase (APX) and peroxidase (POD) activity assay. Meanwhile the electrolyte leakage of leaves analyzed and increased at 450 and 650 mM of NaCl concentrations. Superoxide dismutase and catalase showed same pattern for changing in enzymatic activities (increasing activity by salt stress in roots and decreasing in shoot at 450 and 650 mM stress), also peroxidase and ascorbate peroxidase activity almost increased in all stress conditions.

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  1. Department of Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, 14115-336, I. R. Iran

    Mostafa Modarresi

  2. Basic Sciences Group, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Sari, 578, I. R. Iran

    Fatemeh Moradian

  3. Genetic and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute of Tabarestan, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Sari, 578, I.R. Iran

    Ghorban Ali Nematzadeh

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Modarresi, M., Moradian, F. & Nematzadeh, G.A. Antioxidant responses of halophyte plant Aeluropus littoralis under long-term salinity stress. Biologia 69, 478–483 (2014). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-014-0338-z

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