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ACTA PHYSIOLOGIAE PLANTARUM
卷 36, 期 8, 页码 2157-2165出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11738-014-1592-y
关键词
Deficient concentration; Optimal concentration; Suboptimal concentration; Soluble sugars; Starch
资金
- Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research [LR10CBBC02]
- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario
In the present work, magnesium deficiency effects were studied in Sulla carnosa plants grown in nutrient solution containing 1.50, 0.05, 0.01, and 0.00 mM Mg2+. After 5 weeks of treatment, fully expanded leaves were harvested to study their morphological and ultrastructural changes, as well as their carbohydrate, pigment, and Mg2+ concentrations. In control plants, leaves were well developed with remarkable green color. Down to 0.05 mM Mg2+, no chlorosis symptom was recorded, but below this concentration, mature leaves showed an appearance of interveinal chlorosis that was much more pronounced at 0.00 mM Mg2+ with the development of necrotic spots. Optima of chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, and carotenoid concentrations were observed at 0.05 and 1.50 mM Mg2+; leaf magnesium concentration was severely reduced at 0.05 mM Mg2+. A significant decrease in pigment concentrations was noticed at 0.01 mM Mg2+, but the lowest values were recorded at 0.00 mM Mg2+. Enzymatic assays showed an increase in the accumulation of soluble sugars and starch with decreasing Mg2+ concentration. These results were in accordance with those of ultrastructural studies that revealed a marked alteration of chloroplasts in leaves of deficient plants. These chloroplasts were round and bigger as a result of a massive accumulation of oversized starch grains with disrupted thylakoids. As a whole, 1.50, 0.05, and 0.01 mM Mg2+ were found optimal, suboptimal, and deficient concentrations, respectively, the latter showing no significant difference with absolute Mg2+ absence (0.00 mM Mg2+).
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