biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Nìmec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 59:757-766, 2015 | DOI: 10.1007/s10535-015-0552-8

Nitrogen forms modulate effects of benzothiadiazole and arbutin on cucumber sugar metabolism

M. Sk³odowska1, M. Naliwajski1, M. Wielanek1, E. Gajewska1, E. Ku¼niak1,*
1 Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of £ód¼, £ód¼, Poland

The effect of benzothiadiazole (BTH) and arbutin (ARB) on sugar metabolism and plant fitness in cucumber growing hydroponically in media with different doses of NO3 - and urea as nitrogen sources (100 % NO3 -, 75 % NO3 - + 25 % urea, and 50 % NO3 - + 50 % urea) was studied on the 7th and 14th day after the treatment. The glucose, sucrose, and chlorophyll (Chl) content, acid and alkaline invertases and lactate dehydrogenase activities, as well as leaf area of the 3rd and 5th leaves were determined. Urea changed the plant sugar metabolism in a dose-, time- and leaf-age-dependent manners and influenced a cucumber response to the BTH and ARB treatments. The BTH caused a significant cessation of growth, a decrease in Chl content, a reduction of leaf area, and an enhancement of lactate dehydrogenase and alkaline invertase activities. In the older leaves of the BTH-treated plants, a high accumulation of glucose and sucrose was found. At the lower dose of urea, the metabolic changes were limited. In the ARB-treated plants, the Chl content remained unchanged in all the nitrogen variants. In these plants, decrease in glucose and sucrose content and in both invertase activities was observed mainly in younger leaves of the plants grown on the high dose of urea. The ARB improved the fitness of the cucumber plants grown in the presence of urea.

Keywords: chlorophyll; Cucumis sativus; invertases; lactate dehydrogenase; urea
Subjects: nitrogen forms; benzothiadiazole; arbutin; chlorophyll; invertase; lactate dehydrogenase; glucose; sucrose; cucumber

Received: December 27, 2014; Revised: March 25, 2015; Accepted: April 1, 2015; Published: December 1, 2015  Show citation

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Sk³odowska, M., Naliwajski, M., Wielanek, M., Gajewska, E., & Ku¼niak, E. (2015). Nitrogen forms modulate effects of benzothiadiazole and arbutin on cucumber sugar metabolism. Biologia plantarum, 59(4), 757-766. doi: 10.1007/s10535-015-0552-8
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