Claim · model-written summary
Spermidine significantly reduced reactive oxygen species accumulation under heat stress in tomato seedlings.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Spde0
- Outcome
- accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS)e0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- under the stresse0
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Verbatim
e0“Spd significantly reduced the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and MDA content under the stress”
t0“tomato seedlings”
Title
Q. Q. Sang; S. Shu; X. Shan; et al. Russian Journal of Plant Physiology 2016. doi:10.1134/s1021443716050113
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Intervention effect High temperature stress significantly inhibited tomato plant growth.
- Intervention effect High temperature stress significantly reduced chlorophyll content in tomato seedlings.
- Intervention effect Exogenous 1 mM spermidine alleviated heat induced growth inhibition in tomato seedlings.
- Intervention effect High temperature stress significantly increased malondialdehyde content in tomato seedlings.
- Intervention effect High temperature stress significantly increased hydrogen peroxide content in tomato seedlings.
- Intervention effect High temperature stress significantly increased superoxide anion generation rate in tomato seedlings.
- Intervention effect Spermidine significantly reduced malondialdehyde content under heat stress in tomato seedlings.
- Intervention effect High temperature stress significantly decreased glutathione content in tomato leaves.
- Intervention effect High temperature stress significantly decreased activities of SOD, POD and CAT in tomato leaves.
- Intervention effect High temperature stress significantly decreased activities of APX, GR and MDHAR in tomato leaves.
- Intervention effect High temperature stress significantly decreased DHAR activity in tomato leaves.
- Intervention effect High temperature stress increased dehydroascorbic acid, ascorbic acid and oxidized glutathione contents in tomato leaves.
- Intervention effect Spermidine significantly increased antioxidant enzyme activities in heat stressed tomato leaves.
- Intervention effect Spermidine significantly increased antioxidant levels in heat stressed tomato leaves.
- Intervention effect Spermidine significantly increased endogenous polyamine levels in heat stressed tomato leaves.
- Intervention effect Spermidine regulated expression of MnSOD, POD, APX2 and APX6 genes in heat stressed tomato leaves to varying degrees.
- Intervention effect Spermidine regulated expression of GR, MDHAR, DHAR1 and DHAR2 genes in heat stressed tomato leaves to varying degrees.
- Mechanism The authors suggest that spermidine alleviates oxidative damage by changing endogenous polyamines and enhancing antioxidant systems and related gene expression.