S377 : Spermine and spermidine effects on yield and yield components of chickpea under salt stress conditions
Thesis > Central Library of Shahrood University > Agricultural Engineering > MSc > 2017
Authors:
Ali Ashori [Author], Manoochehr Gholipoor[Supervisor], Mostafa Heidari[Advisor]
Abstarct: In order to investigate the effect of foliar spray of spermine and spermidine on yield and yield components of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) under salt stress conditions, a factorial experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications. Spermine sprayed at three levels (0 (control), 0.25 and 0.50 mM) and spermidine at three levels (0 (control), 0.25 and 0.50 mM) in three stages including four leaves stage, flowering stage and grain milk stage. The results showed that foliar spray of spermine at the concentration of 0.50 mM increased plant height (22.93%), RWC, membrane stability index (14.52%), and the activity of polyphenol oxidase, catalase and guaiacol peroxidase enzymes in comparssion with the control treatment. Morever, foliar spray of spermidine at the concentration of 0.50 mM significantly increased plant height (30.58%), number of branches (51.55%), number of pods per plant (27.28%), 100 seed weight (15.52%), grain yield (15.13 %), RWC, membrane stability index (16.87%) and activity of polyphenol oxidase, catalase and guaiacol peroxidase enzymes compared with the control treatment. Whereas, interaction of spermine and spermidine had significant effects on RWC and activity of polyphenol oxidase, catalase and guaiacol peroxidase enzymes. According to the reaults, different treatments sprayed did not have a significant effect on pod weight, seed weight and seed number per pod. In general, foliar spray of spermidine was more effective than spermine in decreasing the deletrious effect of salt stress and maintaining the different characteristics of chickpea. Furthermore, application of the concentration of 0.50 mM in both polyamines was more effective than 0.25 mM. In general, the results of this study showed that the use of polyamine compounds, especially spermidine, can be considered to reduce the damage of salinity stress.
Keywords:
#Polyamines #foliar application #salinity stress #grain yield #membrane stability #polyphenol oxidase #catalase Link
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