Linić, Ida; Mlinarić, Selma; Brkljačić, Lidija; Pavlović, Iva; Smolko, Ana; Salopek-Sondi, Branka (2021) Ferulic Acid and Salicylic Acid Foliar Treatments Reduce Short-Term Salt Stress in Chinese Cabbage by Increasing Phenolic Compounds Accumulation and Photosynthetic Performance. Plants, 10 . ISSN 2223-7747
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Abstract
Salinity stress is one of the most damaging abiotic stresses to plants, causing disturbances in physiological, biochemical, and metabolic processes. The exogenous application of natural metabolites is a useful strategy to reduce the adverse effects of stress on crops. We investigated the effect of foliar application of salicylic acid (SA) and ferulic acid (FA) (10–100 μM) on short-term saltstressed (150 mM NaCl, 72 h) Chinese cabbage plants. Subsequently, proline level, photosynthetic performance, phenolic metabolites with special focus on selected phenolic acids (sinapic acid (SiA), FA, SA), flavonoids (quercetin (QUE), kaempferol (KAE)), and antioxidant activity were investigated in salt-stressed and phenolic acid-treated plants compared with the corresponding controls. Salt stress caused a significant increase in SA and proline contents, a decrease in phenolic compounds, antioxidant activity, and photosynthetic performance, especially due to the impairment of PSI function. SA and FA treatments, with a concentration of 10 μM, had attenuated effects on salt-stressed plants, causing a decrease in proline and SA level, and indicating that the plants suffered less metabolic disturbance. Polyphenolic compounds, especially FA, SiA, KAE, and QUE, were increased in FA and SA treatments in salt-stressed plants. Consequently, antioxidant activities were increased, and photosynthetic performances were improved. FA resulted in a better ameliorative effect on salt stress compared to SA.
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Brassica rapa ssp. pekinensis ; phenolic compounds ; foliar treatment ; photosynthetic performance ; salicylic acid ; ferulic acid ; salt stress | ||||||||||||
| Subjects: | NATURAL SCIENCES > Biology | ||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Division of Molecular Biology Division of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry |
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| Depositing User: | Branka Salopek Sondi | ||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2021 07:00 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/6593 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3390/plants10112346 |
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