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ACTA PHYSIOLOGIAE PLANTARUM
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 295-304Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11738-010-0547-1
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Antioxidant; Cucumber; Malonaldehyde; Paraquat; Salt stress
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To investigate whether paraquat (PQ) is involved in regulation of antioxidant enzymes and lipid peroxidation under short-term salt stress, and to elucidate the physiological mechanism of salt stress mitigated by PQ, a cucumber cultivar (cv. Chunguang no. 2) was exposed to 100 mM NaCl for 48 h after pre-treatment with 10 mu M PQ for 1 h. When compared to the control, salt stress increased the levels of malonaldehyde (MDA), superoxide radical (O (2) (center dot-) ) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and the activities of antioxidant enzymes, such as superoxide dismutase (EC 1.15.1.1), ascorbate peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.11) and glutathione reductase (EC 1.6.4.2) in the cucumber leaves. Under salt conditions, PQ pre-treatment prevented oxidative stress as observed by the decreases in MDA, H2O2 and O (2) (center dot-) that correlated with the increase in antioxidant defenses. We propose that, at low concentrations, the PQ pre-treatment can reduce the salt-induced oxidative damage by increasing the antioxidative mechanisms in cucumber plants.
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