Abscisic acid-mediated leaf phenolic compounds, plant growth and yield is strawberry under different salt stress regimes

Jamalian, Salma; Gholami, Mansour; Esna-Ashari, Mahmood

Abstract

The present research was conducted to evaluate the interaction effects of exogenous abscisic acid (ABA) and salt stress on phenolic compounds, growth and yield of two short day strawberry cvs "Queen Elisa" and "Kurdistan". Plants were subjected to control, gradual salt stress (up to 20 mmol L-1 over 5 weeks) and salinity shock (20 mmol L-1). ABA treatments included: 0 (control), 5, 10, 20 and 40 µmol L-1. The experiment was carried out based on a complete randomized design in factorial experiment. The highest level of ferulic acid was observed by applying 40 µmol L-1 ABA in "Queen Elisa" under salt stress shock but effective increase in caffeic acid and p-coumaric acid was shown at gradual salt stress for both cultivars at the same ABA level. Maximum level of ABA led to the highest gentisic acid and gallic acid at gradual salt stress in "Kurdistan". Methyl gallate and flavonoid content showed a striking increase at the same conditions in "Queen Elisa". The interaction effect of salt stress regimes and ABA resulted in an increase in ellagic acid content for both cultivars. The interaction effect of ABA and salt shock caused higher reduction in root and shoot fresh dry weights and decrease in fruit yield in "Kurdistan". The results of this experiment accounts for the important role of exogenous ABA in the activation of antioxidant defense mechanism, growth and yield maintenance under gradual salt stress in strawberry.

ABA; Fragaria; phenolics; salinity; fruit

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Amzallag GN, Lerner HR (1995) Physiological adaption of plants to environmental stresses. In: Pessarakli, M (ed.) Handbook of plant and crop physiology, pp. 557-576. Marcel Dekker Inc., New York.
Amzallag GN, Lerner HR, Poljakoff-Mayber A (1990) Exogenous ABA as a modulator of the response of sorghum to high salinity. Journal of Experimental Botany 41:1529-1534.
Arenas-Huertero F, Arroyo A, Zhou L, Sheen J, Leon P (2000) Analysis of Arabidopsis glucose-insensitive mutants, gin5 and gin6, reveals a central role of the plant hormone ABA in the regulation of plant vegetative development by sugar. Genes and Development 14:2085-2096.
Baatour O, Mahmoudi H, Trachoun I, Nasri N, Trabelsi N, Kaddour R, Zaqhdoudi M, Hamdawi G, Ksouri R, Lachaal M, Marzouk B (2013) Salt effect on phenolics and antioxidant activities of Tunisian and Canadian sweet marjoram (Origanum majorana) shoots. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 93:134-141.
Berli FJ, Moreno D, Piccoli P, Hespanhol-Viana L, Silva MF, Bressan-Smith R, Bruno C, Bottini R (2010) Abscisic acid is involved in the response of grape (Vitis vinifera L.) cv. Malbec leaf tissues to ultraviolet-B radiation enhancing ultraviolet-absorbing compounds, antioxidant enzymes and membrane sterols. Plant Cell and Environment 33:1-10.
Blumwald E, Grober A (2006) Salt tolerance. In: Halfor NG (ed.) Plant biotechnology: current and future uses of genetically modified crops, pp. 206-224. John Wiley and Sons, UK.
Castellano G, Tena J, Torrens F (2012) Classification of phenolic compounds by chemical structural indicators and its relation to antioxidant properties of Posidonia oceanic (L.) Delile. MATCH Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry 67:231-250.
Chang C, Yang M, Wen H, Chern J (2002) Estimation of total flavonoid content in propolis by two complementary colorimetric methods. Journal of Food and Drug Analysis 10:178-182.
Chutipaijit S, Cha-Um S, Sompornpailin K (2009) Differential accumulations of proline and flavonoids in indica rice varieties against salinity. Pakistan Journal of Botany 41:2497-2506.
Demmig-Adams B, Dumlao MR, Herzenach MK, Adams WW (2008) Acclimation. Elsevier, University of Colorado, CO, USA.
Djanaguiraman M, Sheeba JA, Shanker AK, Devi DD, Bangarusamy U (2006) Rice can acclimate to lethal level of salinity by pretreatment with sublethal level of salinity through osmotic adjustment. Plant and Soil 284:363-373.
Edreva A, Velikova V, Tsonev V, Dagnon S, Gurel A, Aktas L, Gesheva E (2008) Stress-protective role of secondary metabolites: diversity of functions and mechanisms. General and Applied Plant Physiology 34:67-78.
Eilers RG, Eilers WD, Pettapiece WW, Lelyk G (1995) Salinization of soil. In: Acton DF, Gregorich IJ (eds.) The health of our soils. Toward sustainable agriculture in Canada, pp. 77-86. Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Agriculture and Agri-Food, Canada.
Gould KS, McKelvie J, Markham KR (2002) Do anthocyanins function as antioxidants in leaves? Imaging of H₂O₂ in red and green leaves after mechanical injury. Plant, Cell and Environment 25:1261-1269.
Hichem H, Mounir D, Naceur EA (2009) Differential response of two maize (Zea mays L.) varieties to salt stress: changes on polyphenols composition of foliage and oxidative damages. Industrial Crops and Products 30:144-151.
Hounsome N, Hounsome B, Tomas D, Edwards-Jones G (2008) Plant metabolites and nutritional quality of vegetables. Journal of Food Science. 73:48-65.
Jaganath IB, Crozier A (2010) Plant phenolics and human health: Biochemistry, nutrition and pharmacology. In: Fraga GF (ed.) Dietary flavonoids and phenolic compounds, pp. 1-39. John Wiley & Sons, UK.
Jeong ST, Goto-Yamomoto N, Kaboyashi S, Esaka M (2004) Effect of plant hormones and shading on the accumulation of anthocyanins and the expression of anthocyanins biosynthetic genes in grape berry skins. Plant Science 167:247-252.
Jiang M, Zhang J (2001) Effect of abscisic acid on active oxygen species, antioxidative defence system and oxidative damage in leaves of maize seedlings. Plant and Cell Physiology 42:1265-1273.
Jiang M, Zhang J (2002) Role of abscisic acid in water stress induced antioxidant defense in levees of maize seedlings. Free Radical Research 36:1001-1015.
Kaur R, Singh B, Arora S (2011) Amelioration of oxidative damage by Methyl gallate in different in vitro models. Phytopharmacology 1:82-94.
Kempa S, Krasensky J, Dal Santo S, Kopka J, Jonak C (2008) A central role of abscisic acid in stress-regulated carbohydrate metabolism. Plos One 3:1-9.
Koponen JM, Happonen AM, Mattila PH, Törrönen AR (2007) Contents of anthocyanins and ellagitannins in selected foods consumed in Finland. Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry 55:1612-1619.
Lauchli A, Grattan SR (2007) Advances in molecular breeding toward drought and salt tolerant crops. In: Jenks MA, Hasegawa PM, Jain SM (eds.) Plant growth and development under salinity stress, pp. 1-32. Springer, Netherlands.
Leopoldini M, Russo N, Chiodo S, Toscano M (2006) Iron chelation by the powerful antioxidant flavonoid quercetin. Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry 54:6343-6351.
Li DM, Nie YX, Zhang J, Yin JS, Li Q, Wang XJ, Bai JG (2013) Ferulic acid pretreatment enhances dehydration-stress tolerance of cucumber seedlings. Biologia Plantarum 57:711-717.
Maas EV (1990) Crop salt tolerance. In: Tanji KK (ed.) Agric. Salinity assessment and management. pp. 262-304. Amer. Soc. Civil Eng. Manuals and reports on engineering. ASCE, New York.
Maas EV, Grattan SR (1999) Crop yields as affected by salinity. In: Agricultural Drainage, pp. 55-108. Agronomy Monograph No. 38. American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America. Soil Science Society of America, Madison. Wisconsin, USA.
Michalak A (2006) Phenolic compounds and their antioxidant activity in plants growing under heavy metal stress. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies 15:523-530.
Miller G, Shulaev V, Mittler R (2008) Reactive oxygen signaling and abiotic stress. Physiologia Plantarum 133:481-489.
Potapovich AI, Kostyuk VA (2003) Comparative study of antioxidant properties and cytoprotective activity of flavonoids. Biochemistry 68:514-519.
Quesada V, Ponce MR, Micol JL (2000) Genetic analysis of salt-tolerant mutants in Arabidobsis thaliana Genetics 154:421-436.
Rezazadeh A, Ghasemzadeh A, Brani M, Telmadarrehei T (2012) Effect of salinity on phenolic composition and antioxidant activity of Artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) leaves. Research Journal of Medicinal Plant 6:245-252.
Rodriguez M, Canales E, Borras-Hidalgo O (2005) Molecular aspects of abiotic stress in plants. Biotecnologia Aplicada 22:1-10.
Saha P, Chatterjee P, Biswas AK (2010) NaCl pretreatment alleviates salt stress by enhancement of antioxidant defence system and osmolyte accumulation in mungbean (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek). Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 48:593-600.
Sakamoto H, Matsuda O, Iba K (2008) ITN1, a novel gene encoding an ankyrin-repeat protein that affects the ABA mediated production of reactive oxygen species and is involved in salt stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana Plant Journal 56:411-422.
Sandhu AK, Gray DJ, Lu J, Gu L (2011). Effects of exogenous abscisic acid on antioxidant capacities, anthocyanins and flavonol contents of muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia) skins. Food Chemistry 126:982-988.
Sattar S, Hussnain T, Javid A (2010) Effect of NaCl salinity on cotton (Gossypium arboreum L.) grown on MS medium and in hydroponic cultures. The Journal of Animal and Plant Science 20:87-89.
Silveira JAG, Melo ARB, Viegas RA, Oliveira JTA (2001) Salinity-induced effects on nitrogen assimilation related to growth in cowpea plants. Environmental and Experimental Botany 46:171-179.
Steenkamp V, Nkwane O, van Tonder J, Dinsmore A, Gulumian M (2013) Evaluation of the phenolic and flavonoid contents and radical scavenging activity of three southern African medicinal plants. African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology 7:703-709.
Valderrama R, Corpas F, Carrares A, Fernandez-Ocana A, Chaki M, Luque F, Gomez-Rodriguez M, Colmenero-Varea P, del Rio L, Barroso J (2007) Nitrosative stress in plants. FEBS Letters 581:453-461.
Vankova R (2010) Abiotic stress adaptation in plants. In: Pareek A, Sopory SK, Bohnert H, Govindjee (eds.) Abiotic stress adaptations in plants, pp. 526. Springer Publisher, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
Vekiari SA, Panagou E, Mallidis C (2008) Extraction and determination of ellagic acid content in chestnut bark and fruit. Food Chemistry 110:1007-1011.
Wakabayashi K, Hoson T, Kamisaka S (1997) Abscisic acid suppresses the increases in cell wall-bounded ferulic acid and diferulic acid levels in dark-grown wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) coleoptiles. Plant and Cell Physiology 38:811-817.
Zhang D, Chen SW, Peng YB, Shen YY (2001) Abscisic acid-specific binding sites in the flesh of developing apple fruit. Journal of Experimental Botany 52:2097-2103.
Zhang J, Jia W, Yang J, Ismail AM (2006) Role of ABA in integrating plant responses to drought and salt stresses. Field Crops Research 97:111-119.

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[47] Zhang J, Jia W, Yang J, Ismail AM (2006) Role of ABA in integrating plant responses to drought and salt stresses. Field Crops Research 97:111-119.

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