1. Effects of Soil Salinity on Sucrose Metabolism in Cotton Leaves
- Author
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Jun Peng, Jingran Liu, Lei Zhang, Junyu Luo, Helin Dong, Yan Ma, Xinhua Zhao, Binglin Chen, Ning Sui, Zhiguo Zhou, and Yali Meng
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Salinity ,Sucrose ,Leaves ,lcsh:Medicine ,Cotton ,Plant Science ,Disaccharides ,01 natural sciences ,Physical Chemistry ,Starches ,Soil ,Plant Products ,Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stress ,Photosynthesis ,lcsh:Science ,Plant Proteins ,Multidisciplinary ,Ecology ,Plant Stems ,Organic Compounds ,Physics ,Plant Anatomy ,Agriculture ,Salt Tolerance ,Chemistry ,Plant Physiology ,Physical Sciences ,Research Article ,Carbohydrates ,Crops ,03 medical and health sciences ,Plant-Environment Interactions ,Plant Defenses ,Particle Physics ,Gossypium ,Plant Ecology ,lcsh:R ,fungi ,Organic Chemistry ,Ecology and Environmental Sciences ,Chemical Compounds ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Fiber Crops ,Plant Pathology ,Agronomy ,Plant Leaves ,030104 developmental biology ,Chemical Properties ,lcsh:Q ,Supersymmetry ,010606 plant biology & botany ,Crop Science - Abstract
This study investigated sucrose metabolism of the youngest fully expanded main-stem leaf (MSL) and the subtending leaf of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) boll (LSCB) of salt-tolerant (CCRI-79) and salt-sensitive (Simian 3) cultivars and its relationship to boll weight under low, medium and high soil salinity stress in Dafeng, China, in 2013 and 2014. The results showed that with increased soil salinity, 1) both the chlorophyll content and net photosynthetic rate (Pn) decreased, while the internal CO2 concentration firstly declined, and then increased in the MSL and LSCB; 2) carbohydrate contents in the MSL reduced significantly, while sucrose and starch contents in the LSCB increased, as did the activities of sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) and sucrose synthase (SuSy) in both the MSL and LSCB; 3) but invertase activity in both the MSL and LSCB did not change significantly. Our study also showed that the LSCB was more sensitive to soil salinity than was the MSL. Of the measured physiological indices, higher SPS activity, mainly controlled by sps3, may contribute to adaption of the LSCB to soil salinity stress because SPS is beneficial for efficiently sucrose synthesis, reduction of cellular osmotic potential and combined actions of Pn, and sucrose transformation rate and SPS may contribute to the reduction in boll weight under soil salinity stress.
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- 2016