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Physiological and biochemical response to drought stress in the leaves of Aegiceras corniculatum and Kandelia obovata

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Drought stress is one of the major abiotic stresses that affects plant growth and metabolism adversely around the world. According to this research, the effect of drought stress on the activity of antioxidative enzymes, soluble sugar, protein and lipid peroxidation were studied in leaves of two mangrove plants, Kandelia obovata and Aegiceras corniculatum. The result showed that superoxide dismutase (SOD) and peroxidase (POD) varied significantly between the leaves and roots studied. The activities increased in different stress levels. The production rate of O −·2 changed with the activity of SOD and POD. Lipid peroxidation was enhanced and Glycine betaine (GB) could decrease the level of malonaldehyde in order to reduce the damage of membrane system. The content of soluble sugar and protein also increased under drought stress and GB helped to eliminate the accumulation of them which somehow enhance the ability of defensing the plants under drought stress. These results indicated that antioxidative activity may play an important role in A. corniculatum and K. obovata and that cell membrane in leaves of K. obovata had greater stability than those of A. corniculatum. Exogenous application of GB had positive effects on A. corniculatum and K. obovata under drought stress which could be products exogenously applied to mangrove plants in order to alleviates the adverse effects.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the Guangzhou Science and Technology Projects (No. 15020024), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41430966, No. 41076070 and No. 41176101), the key projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program in the Eleventh Five-year Plan Period (No. 2012BAC07B0402) and the Knowledge Innovation Programs of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KSCX2-SW-132).

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    Gui-Fang Guan, You-Shao Wang, Hao Cheng, Zhao-Yu Jiang & Jiao Fei

  2. Daya Bay Marine Biology Research Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518121, China

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Guan, GF., Wang, YS., Cheng, H. et al. Physiological and biochemical response to drought stress in the leaves of Aegiceras corniculatum and Kandelia obovata . Ecotoxicology 24, 1668–1676 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10646-015-1470-4

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