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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Role of antioxidant pool in management of ozone stress through soil nitrogen amendments in two cultivars of a tropical legume

Gereraj Sen Gupta A and Supriya Tiwari https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7403-4121 A B
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A Department of Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

B Corresponding author. Email: supriyabhu@gmail.com

Functional Plant Biology - https://doi.org/10.1071/FP20159
Submitted: 7 June 2020  Accepted: 14 October 2020   Published online: 1 December 2020

Abstract

The present experiment was done on two different cultivars of a tropical legume, Cymopsis tetragonoloba L. Taub. (cluster bean) cvv. Pusa-Naubahar (PUSA-N) and Selection-151 (S-151). The experiment was conducted under ambient ozone (O3) conditions with inputs of three different doses of inorganic nitrogen (N1, recommended; N2, 1.5-times recommended and N3, 2-times recommended) as well as control plants. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of soil nitrogen amendments in management of ambient ozone stress in the two cultivars of C. tetragonoloba. Our experiment showed that nitrogen amendments can be an efficient measure to manage O3 injury in plants. Stimulation of antioxidant enzyme activities under nitrogen amendments is an important feature of plants that help plants cope with ambient O3 stress. Nitrogen amendments strengthened the antioxidant machinery in a more effective way in the tolerant cultivar PUSA-N, while in the sensitive cultivar S-151, avoidance strategy marked by more reduction in stomatal conductance was more prominent. Enzymes of the Halliwell–Asada pathway, especially ascorbate peroxidase and glutathione reductase, were more responsive and synchronised in PUSA-N than S-151, under similar nitrogen amendment regimes and were responsible for the differential sensitivities of the two cultivars of C. tetragonoloba. The present study shows that 1.5-times recommended dose of soil nitrogen amendments was sufficient in partial mitigation of O3 injury and the higher nitrogen dose (2-times recommended, in our case), did not provide any extra advantage to the plant’s metabolism compared with plants treated with the lower nitrogen dose (1.5-times recommended).

Keywords: cluster bean, Cymopsis tetragonoloba L. Taub, enzymatic antioxidants, nitrogen amendments, non-enzymatic antioxidants, oxidative damage, ozone stress, partial mitigation.


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