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Effects of salicylic acid pre-treatment on cadmium and/or UV-B stress in soybean seedlings

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Biologia Plantarum

Abstract

The present study examined the effect of salicylic acid (SA) pre-treatment on soybean seedlings exposed to cadmium and/or UV-B stress. Dry mass, pigment content, net photosynthetic rate (PN), stomatal conductance (gs), and transpiration rate (E) were decreased by the Cd and/or UV-B stress. SA alleviated the adverse effects of Cd and/or UV-B on growth, pigment content, PN, and gs, but did not mitigate the inhibitory effect of Cd/UV-B on E, or that of Cd on chlorophyll fluorescence parameters. Cd and/or UV-B induced oxidative stress and increased lipid peroxidation that was significantly decreased by SA pre-treatment. The Cd and/or UV-B increased superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, decreased peroxidase (POD) activity, and catalase (CAT) activity was mostly unaltered. SA might act as one of the potential antioxidants as well as a stabilizer of membrane integrity to improve plant resistance to the Cd and/or UV-B stress.

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Abbreviations

CAT:

catalase

Chl:

chlorophyll

E:

transpiration rate

Fv/Fm :

variable to maximum chlorophyll fluorescence ratio (potential photochemical efficiency of photosystem II)

Fv/F0 :

variable to basal fluorescence ratio (potential activity of photosystem II)

gs :

stomatal conductance

MDA:

malondialdehyde

PN :

net photosynthetic rate

POD:

peroxidase

SOD:

superoxide dismutase

WUE:

water use efficiency

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    X. M. Li, L. J. Ma, N. Bu & Y. Y. Li

  2. Environmental Science Department of Liaoning University, Shenyang, 110036, P.R. China

    L. H. Zhang

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Acknowledgments: This research was financially supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (31270369, 31070285, 30870205) and the Director Foundation of Experimental Center at Shenyang Normal University (SY201102, SY201104).

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Li, X.M., Ma, L.J., Bu, N. et al. Effects of salicylic acid pre-treatment on cadmium and/or UV-B stress in soybean seedlings. Biol Plant 58, 195–199 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10535-013-0375-4

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