Author:
Seifikalhor Maryam,Niknam Vahid,Aliniaeifard Sasan,Didaran Fardad,Tsaniklidis Georgios,Fanourakis Dimitrios,Teymoorzadeh Mahsa,Mousavi Seyed Hasan,Bosacchi Massimo,Li Tao
Abstract
Abstractγ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a non-protein amino acid with multifunctional roles in dynamic plant responses. To determine the effects of exogenous GABA application (0, 25 and 50 µM) on drought response, two chickpea cultivars with contrasting tolerance to water deficit were examined. Plants were exposed to four irrigation levels (irrigation to 100, 60, 40 and 20% field capacity). Water deficit decreased growth, chlorophyll content, and photosynthetic efficiency. It increased electrolyte leakage and lipid peroxidation owing to both higher ROS accumulation and lower antioxidant enzyme activity. These negative effects of water deficit and the alleviating role of GABA application were more prominent in the sensitive, as compared to the tolerant cultivar. Water deficit also increased proline and GABA contents more in the tolerant cultivar, whereas their content was more enhanced by GABA application in the sensitive one. This may confer an additional level of regulation that results in better alleviation of drought damage in tolerant chickpea cultivars. In conclusion, the stimulatory effect of GABA on growth and physiological modulation depends on both the water stress severity and the cultivar sensitivity to it, implying a probable unknown GABA-related mechanism established by tolerant chickpea cultivars; a lost or not gained mechanism in susceptible ones.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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