Adaptive mechanism of stress tolerance in Urochondra (grass halophyte) using roots study
2019
CHARU LATA | SHOBHA SONI | NARESH KUMAR | ASHWANI KUMAR | POOJA POOJA | ANITA MANN | SULEKHA RANI
An experiment was conducted on Urochondra setulosa (grass halophyte) to explore its survival mechanism under stress conditions. For this, different treatments of salinity/sodicity (pH ~ 9.5, pH ~ 10, ECe ~ 30 dS/m, ECe ~ 40 dS/m and ECe ~ 50 dS/m) were created in micro-plots. Roots are the primary structure that first senses the negative effects of salt stress. So, roots were selected to study the tolerance mechanism. Salinity stress caused higher Na+ accumulation and less reduction in K+ content in comparison to sodic stress. Roots accumulated 4.57 folds higher proline at ECe ~ 50 dS/m, whereas under pH ~ 10.0, 3.11 fold higher accumulations than the control roots were observed. Higher reduction in protein content was observed under sodicity stress than salinity stress. In control roots, a total of 26 polypeptide bands were expressed ranging from 12.43 kDa to 81.3 kDa. Under high salinity stress, number of polypeptide bands increased to 31 at ECe ~ 50 dS/m that might be responsible for their survival and growth while sodic stress led to disappearance of more number of polypeptides with a total number of 23 polypeptides at pH ~ 10.0. Interestingly, it was also found that sodic stress had higher damaging affect on Urochondra metabolism in comparison to salinity stress which makes it salinity tolerant grass.
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