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Plant Responses to Soil Flooding

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The influence of various extent of soil moisture and its aeration status in the root zone of the plants on the physiological status and defensive system against oxidative destruction of the tolerant-to-soil-flooding maize Zea mays L. and sensitive pea Pisum sativum L. was investigated. The efficiency of the defensive system was evaluated by the activity of SOD as an enzyme neutralizing superoxide anion radicals, by MDA content indicating the rate of free radical lipid oxidation, and by the root and shoot biomass production and pigment concentration in the leaves. Plant resistance to the effects of soil flooding depends not only on the ability to survive at the action of soil hypoxia but also on the subsequent reoxygenation. The effects of prolonged soil hypoxia and subsequent re-aeration on the development of the stress-realizing system bean Vicia faba major L. cv. Bartom plants were investigated. In connection with the specificity of the effect of hypoxia on the plants, the specific and nonspecific plant responses to the effect of this stress factor were investigated. In this case special attention was paid to the changes connected with transformations of respiration pathways, with functioning of the root alcohol dehydrogenase in the spring rape Brassica napus L. Formation of the reactive oxygen species which appears to be a unspecific plant response to different stress factors, including hypoxia, was estimated by the intensity of oxidative destruction processes and activity of antioxidant enzymes in plant tissues. 

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Abbreviations

ADG:

Alcohol dehydrogenase

AsP:

Ascorbate peroxidase

Chl:

Chlorophyll

DW:

Dry weight

E g :

Air-filled porosity

E h :

Redox potential

GR:

Glutathione reductase

GPX:

Guaiacol peroxidase

LPO:

Lipid peroxidation

MDA:

Malondialdehyde

ODR:

Oxygen diffusion rate

ROS:

Reactive oxygen species

SOD:

Superoxide dismutase

TBARs:

Thiobarbituric acid reactive substances

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Balakhnina, T.I. (2015). Plant Responses to Soil Flooding. In: Tripathi, B., Müller, M. (eds) Stress Responses in Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13368-3_5

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