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SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE
Volume 123, Issue 1, Pages 34-38Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2009.07.015
Keywords
Photosynthetic rate; Ribulose 1,5-biphosphate carboxylase (RuBPCase); Antioxidant enzymes; Proline; Cucumber; Solar-greenhouse
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- National Science and Technology Sustentation Plan of China [2008BADA61305, 2006BAD07B04-9]
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The response of photosynthesis, antioxidant enzyme activity, and proline content to low light intensity and suboptimal temperature in Cucumis sativa L seedlings pretreated with either distilled water, 10 mM CaCl2, 1 mM LaCl3, 3 mM ethyleneglycol-bis-(2-aminoethyl) tetraacetic acid (EGTA) or 0.05 mM chlorpromazine (CPZ) were investigated. The results showed that 10 mM CaCl2 led to an increase in photosynthetic rate (Pn), carboxylation efficiency (CE), ribulose 1,5-biphosphate carboxylase (RuBPCase) activity, chlorophyll content, peroxidase (POD) and catalase (CAT) activity, and proline content of cucumber seedlings under low light intensity and suboptimal temperature, in comparison with the distilled water-pretreated seedlings. However, LaCl3, EGTA and CPZ were in contrast to CaCl2. These results suggest that CaCl2 has beneficial effect on photosynthetic adaptation to low light and suboptimal temperature stress in cucumber seedlings. This might be related to the observed increase in RuBPCase activity, alleviation of lipid peroxidation and enhancement of osmoregulation, with these effects being inhibited by LaCl3, EGTA and CPZ. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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