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Stress Ameliorative Effects of Indole Acetic Acid on Hordeum vulgare L. Seedlings Subjected to Zinc Toxicity
Monika Sood1, Shanti S. Sharma1, Joginder Singh1, Ram Prasad2,3,*, Dhriti Kapoor1,*
1 School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University Phagwara, Punjab, 144411, India
2 School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China
3 Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, 845401, India
* Corresponding Authors: Ram Prasad. Email: ; ; Dhriti Kapoor. Email:
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany 2020, 89(1), 71-86. https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2020.07180
Received 05 May 2019; Accepted 09 September 2019; Issue published 01 March 2020
Abstract
The heavy metals present in the environment accumulate in the plants
and affect their productivity and yield. By entering the food chain, metals cause
several serious health problems in human beings as well as in other organisms.
Indole acetic acid (IAA) is known to act as a signaling molecule between symbiotic
association of metal accumulating plants and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria
(PGPR). Present study demonstrated a protective role of IAA against surplus Zinc
(Zn)-induced toxicity to
Hordeum vulgare seedlings. Elevated Zn concentrations
suppressed the plant growth, caused a reduction in leaf relative water contents
(RWC) and elevated free proline and non-protein thiols (NPT) accumulation. Zinc
treatment also led to enhanced lipid peroxidation (MDA contents) as well as the
activity of ascorbate peroxidase (APX), showing the involvement of antioxidative
defense mechanism to reduce Zn induced toxicity. IAA oxidase activity was also
observed to increase due to Zn treatment. IAA pretreatment of
H. vulgare caryopsis
could partly revert the Zn-induced toxicity in seedlings.
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Sood, M., Sharma, S. S., Singh, J., Prasad, R., Kapoor, D. (2020). Stress Ameliorative Effects of Indole Acetic Acid on
Hordeum vulgare L. Seedlings Subjected to Zinc Toxicity.
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, 89(1), 71–86.