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Physiological responses of yellow-horn seedlings to high temperatures under drought condition

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Drought and hot stresses are the primary limiting factors for the growth and seed production of yellow-horn (Xanthoceras sorbifolia Bunge), especially in Xinjiang Province of China. A better understanding of its physiological and biochemical characteristics under drought–hot stress is requisite for its efficient cultivation in the arid and semi-arid areas. In this study, the physiological and biochemical responses of 3-month-old yellow-horn seedlings were evaluated after 7 days of treatments of five temperatures (25 °C/20 °C, 30 °C/25 °C, 35 °C/25 °C, 40 °C/25 °C and 45 °C/25 °C) under two watering conditions [adequate water supply (HW): 80 ± 5% FC (field capacity); low water supply (LW): 40 ± 5% FC] by a pot experiment. The increased temperature (above to 35 °C) markedly aggravated the damage on biomass accumulation and membrane integrity of yellow-horn seedlings under the LW. The accumulation of soluble sugars and proteins exhibited a growing trend as the temperature increased from 25 to 40 °C, which declined when the temperature was higher than 40 °C except for the soluble protein accumulation under HW. In addition, captured responsive characteristics of the gas-exchange parameters and chlorophyll fluorescence have indicated that the combinations of high temperature (above to 35 °C) and LW induced significant decrease in photosynthetic activities of yellow-horn seedlings. All these results showed that the hot stress significantly aggravated the drought damage on yellow-horn plant growth, especially when the temperature increased above 35 °C under drought stress.

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This work was financially supported by Science Technology Yuanjiang Project of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (2016E02045), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DC201501070202), the Shaanxi Provincial Key R&D Program (2019TSLNY03-01) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31700335).

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  1. School of Environment and Resources, Dalian Minzu University, Dalian, 116605, People’s Republic of China

    Hua Jin, Jixiang Zou, Linlin Li, Xinlei Bai & Tong Zhu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming On the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, People’s Republic of China

    Bingcheng Xu & Zhi Wang

  3. Shaanxi Institute of Desertification Control, Yulin, Shaanxi Province, 719000, People’s Republic of China

    Junbao Li

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HJ and ZW: conceived and designed the experiments. JZ, LL and LB: performed the experiments. JZ, TZ and BX: analyzed the data. HJ, JL and ZW: contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. HJ and ZW: wrote the paper.

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Jin, H., Zou, J., Li, L. et al. Physiological responses of yellow-horn seedlings to high temperatures under drought condition. Plant Biotechnol Rep 14, 111–120 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11816-019-00590-9

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