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2017
Volume 20
Issue 4
Topic:
Agronomy
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Rybus-Zaj±c M. , Korbas A. , Kubi¶ J. 2017. THE EFFECT OF DROUGHT STRESS AND EXCESSIVE UV-B RADIATION ON THE MEMBRANE STATUS IN CUCUMBER COTYLEDONS AND LEAVES
DOI:10.30825/5.ejpau.34.2017.20.4, EJPAU 20(4), #07.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume20/issue4/abs-07.html

THE EFFECT OF DROUGHT STRESS AND EXCESSIVE UV-B RADIATION ON THE MEMBRANE STATUS IN CUCUMBER COTYLEDONS AND LEAVES
DOI:10.30825/5.EJPAU.34.2017.20.4

Magdalena Rybus-Zaj±c, Agata Korbas, Jan Kubi¶
Department of Plant Physiology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland

 

ABSTRACT

Crops grown in open ground are from early stages exposed to several stress factors acting simultaneously or in a sequence. One-week and three-week-old seedlings of cucumber plants (Cucumis sativus cv. Dar) were subjected to two abiotic stress factors, i.e. water deficit and UV-B radiation applied separately and in combination. The progressive stresses decreased the water content in cotyledons and leaves. The stresses caused membrane damage and an increase in the injury index (ID), which was the highest under drought and successively lower under UV-B/drought combination and UV-B on its own. An increase in lipoxygenase (LOX) activity and malondialdehyde (MDA) content was observed in cucumber seedlings. UV-B and water deficit caused more pronounced effect separately than in combination. Generally, the damage (injury index) observed in leaves was higher than in cotyledons and the increase in LOX activity was also slightly higher in leaves than in cotyledons. There was greater increase in the MDA content in leaves than in cotyledons.


In nature the abiotic stress  factors – water deficit, excessive radiation and heat, often occur simultaneously.  Plants respond to a combination of two different abiotic stresses in a unique manner and their response is different when stresses are applied individually. The research findings suggest that each of the stresses may alleviate the negative effect of the other stress factors. In the cotyledons and leaves of cucumber seedlings the water deficit and UV-B radiation applied together generally alleviated the effect of individual stresses within the cellular membrane, as measurements of the membrane damage, LOX activity and MDA content revealed.

Key words: abiotic stresses, cucumber, lipoxygenase, malondialdehyde, membrane damage.

Magdalena Rybus-Zaj±c
Department of Plant Physiology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland
Wołyńska 35
60-637 Poznań
Poland
email: magrybus@up.poznan.pl

Agata Korbas
Department of Plant Physiology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland
Wołyńska 35
60-637 Poznań
Poland
email: akorbas@up.poznan.pl

Jan Kubi¶
Department of Plant Physiology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland
Wołyńska 35
60-637 Poznań
Poland
email: jkubis@up.poznan.pl

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