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Pretreatment with 5-aminolevulinic acid mitigates heat stress of cucumber leaves

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Biologia Plantarum

Abstract

Cucumber seedlings were pretreated with 3 μM 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) followed by cultivation at normal (25/18 °C) or high (42/38 °C) day/night temperature to investigate the protective effects of ALA on heat stress in plants. Heat elevated the contents of malondiadehyde (MDA), superoxide radical (O2 .−) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in leaves of all plants but less in ALA-pretreated plants. Heat treatment resulted in higher antioxidant enzyme activities and proline and soluble sugar contents and weaker growth inhibition in ALA-pretreated plants than in those treated with heat alone. These results indicate that ALA pretreatment increased the tolerance of seedlings to heat stress.

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Abbreviations

ALA:

5-aminolevulinic acid

APX:

ascorbate peroxidase

CAT:

catalase

DHAR:

dehydroascorbate reductase

GPX:

guaiacol peroxidase

GR:

glutathione reductase

GSH-Px:

glutathione peroxidase

MDA:

malondiadehyde

MDHAR:

monodehydroascorbate reductase

SOD:

superoxide dismutase

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology/College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, Shandong, 271018, P.R. China

    J. Zhang, D. -M. Li, Y. Gao, B. Yu & J. -G. Bai

  2. College of Food Science and Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, Shandong, 271018, P.R. China

    C. -X. Xia

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Zhang, J., Li, D.M., Gao, Y. et al. Pretreatment with 5-aminolevulinic acid mitigates heat stress of cucumber leaves. Biol Plant 56, 780–784 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10535-012-0136-9

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