Diverse Response of Three Sweetpotato Cultivars to Abiotic Stresses and Adjustment of Free Polyamine Levels
El-Far, M., Berberich, T., Werner Koyro, H. (2019). Diverse Response of Three Sweetpotato Cultivars to Abiotic Stresses and Adjustment of Free Polyamine Levels. EKB Journal Management System, 59(2), 461-474. doi: 10.21608/ejbo.2019.6752.1269
Mervat M.M. El-Far; Thomas Berberich; Hans Werner Koyro. "Diverse Response of Three Sweetpotato Cultivars to Abiotic Stresses and Adjustment of Free Polyamine Levels". EKB Journal Management System, 59, 2, 2019, 461-474. doi: 10.21608/ejbo.2019.6752.1269
El-Far, M., Berberich, T., Werner Koyro, H. (2019). 'Diverse Response of Three Sweetpotato Cultivars to Abiotic Stresses and Adjustment of Free Polyamine Levels', EKB Journal Management System, 59(2), pp. 461-474. doi: 10.21608/ejbo.2019.6752.1269
El-Far, M., Berberich, T., Werner Koyro, H. Diverse Response of Three Sweetpotato Cultivars to Abiotic Stresses and Adjustment of Free Polyamine Levels. EKB Journal Management System, 2019; 59(2): 461-474. doi: 10.21608/ejbo.2019.6752.1269

Diverse Response of Three Sweetpotato Cultivars to Abiotic Stresses and Adjustment of Free Polyamine Levels

Egyptian Journal of Botany
Article 14, Volume 59, Issue 2, August 2019, Page 461-474  XML PDF (797.9 K)
Document Type: Regular issue (Original Article)
DOI: 10.21608/ejbo.2019.6752.1269
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Authors
Mervat M.M. El-Far email 1, 2, 3; Thomas Berberich4, 2; Hans Werner Koyro5
1Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI), Agricultural Research Centre (ARC), Giza, Egypt
2Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
3Institute for Plant Ecology, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany
4Phytoprove GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
5Institute for Plant Ecology, Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen, Germany
Abstract
THREE SWEETPOTATO cultivars, Abees, Mogamba and Santo Amaro, were subjected to moderate (-0.5MPa) and severe drought stress (-2.5MPa) or to salt treatments up to 200mM NaCl, respectively. Patterns of leaf polyamine contents were analyzed to verify whether these metabolites could be used as early traits of tolerance. Physiological parameters like leaf relative water content, total chlorophyll content, leaf electron conductance, stomata resistance and transpiration rate were used to indicate stress conditions of the plants and growth parameters were applied to identify the level of tolerance among the used cultivars. In all three cultivars, drought led to an increase of putrescine (Put) and decrease of spermidine (Spd) concentrations while spermine (Spm) was decreased only in the Santo Amaro cultivar. The most tolerant cultivar was Mogamba followed by Santo Amaro and Abees. However, this descending order was not reflected by the specific changes in polyamine levels but it is altered under drought as well as under salinity in both sensitive and tolerant cultivars. More investigations are needed to figure out if polyamines behave as a response of stress and/or a protective mechanism.
Keywords
Drought stress; Polyamines; salt stress; Sweetpotato; Ipomoea batatas
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