ACTA AGRICULTURAE BOREALI-SINICA ›› 2008, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (S1): 135-139. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.2008.S1.034

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Resistance to Cadmium Stress of Rice Seedling Enhanced by Exogenous Salicylic Acid

WU Lun-zhong1, HAN Rui-hong2, MO Yi-wei3, XIE Jiang-hui3, WEI Xiang-hua4   

  1. 1. Rongan County Agriculture Bureau of Guangxi Province,Rongan 545408,China;
    2. College of Life Science,South China Agricultural University,Guangzhou 510642,China;
    3. South Subtropical Crops Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Sciences,Zhanjiang 524091 China;
    4. College of Agronomy,Guangxi University,Nanning 530005,China
  • Received:2008-01-20 Published:2008-12-31

Abstract: To investigate whether tolerance to cadmium (Cd) stress of rice seedlings could be enhanced or not by exogenous salicylic acid (SA), rice seedlings were grown in half concentration of Kimura Solution B, CdCl2.500 mol/ L and 300mol/ L SA(SA1), or 500mol/ L SA(SA2) was added to the solution, and the free Salicylic acid as control (CK). Under Cd stress condition, the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), peroxidase (POD), chloro??phyll content and the photosynthesis rate of rice leaves were greatly decreased, andcontent of MDA in rice leaves weregreatly increased. But after SA was added to the nutrition solution with Cd, the act ivities of SOD, CAT and POD in riceleaves were greater than that with Cd stress, and the rate of reactive oxygen production, the content of H2O2 and MDA was decreased, the content of chlorophyll greatly decreased. All these results indicated that the tolerance to cadmium stress of rice seedlings could be increased by exogenous SA through its effects on the activities of antioxidant enzyme.

Key words: Rice seedling, Salicylic acid, Cadmium stress, React ive oxygen

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WU Lun-zhong, HAN Rui-hong, MO Yi-wei, XIE Jiang-hui, WEI Xiang-hua. Resistance to Cadmium Stress of Rice Seedling Enhanced by Exogenous Salicylic Acid[J]. ACTA AGRICULTURAE BOREALI-SINICA, 2008, 23(S1): 135-139. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.2008.S1.034.

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