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- Title
Response of Contrasting Rice Genotypes to Zinc Sources under Saline Conditions.
- Authors
Muhammad Jan; Anwar-Ul-Haq, Muhammad; Javed, Talha; Hussain, Sadam; Ahmad, Ilyas; Sumrah, Muhammad Ashraf; Iqbal, Javed; Babar, Babar Hussain; Hafeez, Aqsa; Aslam, Muhammad; Akbar, Muhammad Tahir; Aziz, Marjan; Alharbi, Khadiga; Ullah, Izhar
- Abstract
Abiotic stresses are among the major limiting factors for plant growth and crop productivity. Among these, salinity is one of the major risk factors for plant growth and development in arid to semi-arid regions. Cultivation of salt tolerant crop genotypes is one of the imperative approaches to meet the food demand for increasing population. The current experiment was carried out to access the performance of different rice genotypes under salinity stress and Zinc (Zn) sources. Four rice genotypes were grown in a pot experiment and were exposed to salinity stress (7 dS m-1), and Zn (15 mg kg-1 soil) was applied from two sources, ZnSO4 and Zn-EDTA. A control of both salinity and Zn was kept for comparison. Results showed that based on the biomass accumulation and K+/Na+ ratio, KSK-133 and BAS-198 emerged as salt tolerant and salt sensitive, respectively. Similarly, based on the Zn concentration, BAS-2000 was reported as Zn-in-efficient while IR-6 was a Zn-efficient genotype. Our results also revealed that plant growth, relative water content (RWC), physiological attributes including chlorophyll contents, ionic concentrations in straw and grains of all rice genotypes were decreased under salinity stress. However, salt tolerant and Zn-in-efficient rice genotypes showed significantly higher shoot K+ and Zn concentrations under saline conditions. Zinc application significantly alleviates the harmful effects of salinity by improving morpho-physiological attributes and enhancing antioxidant enzyme activities, and the uptake of K and Zn. The beneficial effect of Zn was more pronounced in salt-tolerant and Zn in-efficient rice genotypes as compared with salt-sensitive and Zn-efficient genotypes. In sum, our results confirmed that Zn application increased overall plant's performance under saline conditions, particularly in Zn in-efficient and tolerant genotypes as compared with salt-sensitive and Zn efficient rice genotypes.
- Subjects
RICE genetics; EFFECT of zinc on plants; PLANT growth; ANTIOXIDANTS; EFFECT of salts on plants
- Publication
Phyton (0031-9457), 2023, Vol 92, Issue 5, p1361
- ISSN
0031-9457
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.32604/phyton.2023.026620