biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Němec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 58:751-757, 2014 | DOI: 10.1007/s10535-014-0442-5

Zinc improves salt tolerance by increasing reactive oxygen species scavenging and reducing Na+ accumulation in wheat seedlings

L. H. Xu1,2, W. Y. Wang1,*, J. J. Guo2, J. Qin3, D. Q. Shi2,4, Y. L. Li5, J. Xu1,2,*
1 College of Life Science and Geography, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, P.R. China
2 Key Laboratory of Tropical Plant Resource and Sustainable Use, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan, P.R. China
3 Cereal and Oil Crop Institute, Hebei Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Shijiazhuang, P.R. China
4 College of Life Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, P.R. China
5 Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang, P.R. China

Salt decreases the uptake of Zn and other minerals and causes nutritional disorders in plants. Zn is an essential micronutrient for all organisms and it is reasonable to hypothesize that Zn status is essential for maintaining salt tolerance in plants. In this study, the physiological and molecular mechanisms of Zn-based alleviation of salt stress in wheat seedlings were investigated. Our results indicate that sufficient Zn nutrition maintained antioxidative enzyme activities and decreased a reactive oxygen species over-accumulation in wheat seedlings. Our data also reveal that sufficient Zn nutrition improved the expression of Na+/H+ antiporter genes, TaSOS1 and TaNHX1, thereby decreasing the Na+ accumulation and subsequently improving salt tolerance in wheat seedlings.

Keywords: antioxidative enzyme; ascorbate peroxidase; Na+, H+ antiporter; peroxidase; superoxide dismutase; Triticum aestivum
Subjects: zinc; salt tolerance; sodium; ascorbate peroxidase; peroxidase; superoxide dismutase; hydrogen peroxide; cell death; wheat

Received: July 31, 2013; Revised: January 15, 2014; Accepted: January 16, 2014; Published: December 1, 2014  Show citation

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Xu, L.H., Wang, W.Y., Guo, J.J., Qin, J., Shi, D.Q., Li, Y.L., & Xu, J. (2014). Zinc improves salt tolerance by increasing reactive oxygen species scavenging and reducing Na+ accumulation in wheat seedlings. Biologia plantarum58(4), 751-757. doi: 10.1007/s10535-014-0442-5
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