Interactive Temperature and CO<sub>2</sub> Rise, Salinity, Drought, and Bacterial Inoculation Alter the Content of Fatty Acids, Total Phenols, and Oxalates in the Edible Halophyte <i>Salicornia ramosissima</i>
2023
Jennifer Mesa-Marín | Enrique Mateos-Naranjo | João Carreiras | Eduardo Feijão | Bernardo Duarte | Ana Rita Matos | Marco Betti | Carmen Del Rio | Marina Romero-Bernal | Joan Montaner | Susana Redondo-Gómez
In this work, we studied the combined effect of increased temperature and atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub>, salt and drought stress, and inoculation with plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on the growth and some nutritional parameters of the edible halophyte <i>Salicornia ramosissima</i>. We found that the increase in temperature and atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub>, combined with salt and drought stresses, led to important changes in <i>S. ramosissima</i> fatty acids (FA), phenols, and oxalate contents, which are compounds of great importance for human health. Our results suggest that the <i>S. ramosissima</i> lipid profile will change in a future climate change scenario, and that levels of oxalate and phenolic compounds may change in response to salt and drought stress. The effect of inoculation with PGPR depended on the strains used. Some strains induced the accumulation of phenols in <i>S. ramosissima</i> leaves at higher temperature and CO<sub>2</sub> while not altering FA profile but also led to an accumulation of oxalate under salt stress. In a climate change scenario, a combination of stressors (temperature, salinity, drought) and environmental conditions (atmospheric CO<sub>2,</sub> PGPR) will lead to important changes in the nutritional profiles of edible plants. These results may open new perspectives for the nutritional and economical valorization of <i>S. ramosissima</i>.
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