An insight into drought resilience in three cohabiting mosses | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Botany | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 03 October 2025 | ||
| Document Type: Regular issue (Original Article) | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejbo.2025.345894.3129 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Pragya Singh1; Djordje P. Božović2; Deepti Routray1; Martin Backor1, 3; Marko S. Sabovljević1, 2, 4; Michal Goga* 1, 5 | ||
| 1Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Košice, Slovakia | ||
| 2Institute for Botany and Botanical Garden, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia | ||
| 3Institute of Biotechnology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Science, Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovakia 4Center of Plant Biotechnology and Conservation (CPBC), | ||
| 4Center of Plant Biotechnology and Conservation (CPBC), Belgrade, Serbia | ||
| 5Center for Interdisciplinary Biosciences, Technology and Innovation Park, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Jesenná 5, 041 54 Košice, Slovakia | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Drought stress is one of the critical abiotic stresses and it severely affects plant growth and development. Mosses, have an ability to pass in and out of physiological inactivity (anabiosis), which makes them a suitable plant group for drought stress studies. In this study, we investigated the differences in drought resistance among three phylogenetically distant but cohabiting moss species, namely Pleurozium schreberi, Polytrichum formosum and Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus under simulation of drought caused by PEG600, as inferred by the ion leakage, relative water content (RWC) and membrane stability as inferred by lipid peroxidation status. These parameters enable the understanding of the drought stress tolerance capacity and to determine drought resilience of the three selected moss species. Polytrichum formosum seems to tolerate the drought stress better than the other two mosses. It is also statistically supported that its membranes are less damaged, compared to other two tested species. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Bryophyte; Ion leakage; MDA; RWC; Stress; Water lack | ||
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