Claim · model-written summary
Chloroplast ultrastructure damage under NaCl was alleviated in rootstock-grafted cucumber.
- Taxon
- Cucumis sativus L.
Cucumis sativuse0 - Material
- rootstock-grafted plantse5
- Treatment
- 90 mM NaCle7
- Outcome
- the damage of chloroplast ultrastructuree5
- Direction
- was alleviatede5
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Verbatim
e0“pumpkin-grafted (hereafter referred to as rootstock-grafted) cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) plants”
e5“However, the damage of chloroplast ultrastructure was alleviated in the rootstock-grafted plants”
e7“Under 90 mM NaCl, the number of grana was reduced, the thylakoids were swollen, and starch granules accumulated in all plants”
Title
Z. X. Liu; Z. L. Bie; Y. Huang; et al. Photosynthetica 2012. doi:10.1007/s11099-012-0007-9
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Growth reduction under 90 mM NaCl was smaller in rootstock-grafted cucumber than in nongrafted and self-grafted plants.
- Intervention effect Under 90 mM NaCl, net photosynthetic rate and stomatal conductance were significantly decreased in nongrafted and self-grafted cucumber.
- Intervention effect Under 90 mM NaCl, PSII photochemical efficiency and quenching traits were significantly decreased in nongrafted and self-grafted cucumber.
- Intervention effect Grafting cucumber onto pumpkin rootstock alleviated the NaCl-induced reductions.
- Intervention effect Under 90 mM NaCl, intercellular CO2 concentration was significantly increased in nongrafted and self-grafted cucumber.
- Intervention effect Under 90 mM NaCl, intercellular CO2 concentration was decreased in rootstock-grafted cucumber.
- Intervention effect Under 90 mM NaCl, NPQ and the deepoxidation state of the xanthophyll cycle were significantly increased, particularly in rootstock-grafted cucumber.
- Mechanism Rootstock-grafted cucumber appears to have higher potential to dissipate excess excitation energy, reducing photodamage to PSII.
- Intervention effect Under 90 mM NaCl, the number of grana was reduced in cucumber chloroplasts.
- Intervention effect Under 90 mM NaCl, the thylakoids of cucumber chloroplasts were swollen.
- Intervention effect Under 90 mM NaCl, starch granules accumulated in cucumber chloroplasts.
- Intervention effect Use of C. moschata rootstock alleviated salt stress in cucumber plants.
- Mechanism Rootstock use may alleviate photoinhibition in cucumber, probably through fewer stomatal and nonstomatal limits on photosynthesis.