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<p>A cost-effective enhancement of leafy vegetable yield and health-promoting quality may be achieved by combining moderate stress conditions with the application of bioactive compounds. The aim of this work is to study how salt stress and triacontanol interact with each other in modulating vegetative growth, photosynthetic light use efficiency, carbon dioxide uptake, and chlorophyll and carotenoid pigment content of spinach plants grown under controlled conditions. Besides stimulating metabolic processes related to growth and photosynthetic production, treatments with 1 μM triacontanol once in three days significantly compensate for the deleterious effects of salt stress induced with 250 mM NaCl.</p>
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A cost-effective enhancement of leafy vegetable yield and health-promoting quality may be achieved by combining moderate stress conditions with the application of bioactive compounds. The aim of this work is to study how salt stress and triacontanol interact with each other in modulating vegetative growth, photosynthetic light use efficiency, carbon dioxide uptake, and chlorophyll and carotenoid pigment content of spinach plants grown under controlled conditions. Besides stimulating metabolic processes related to growth and photosynthetic production, treatments with 1 μM triacontanol once in three days significantly compensate for the deleterious effects of salt stress induced with 250 mM NaCl.

Influence of triacontanol and salt stress on the growth and metabolism of spinach

Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Geology

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Agriculture and Environment

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A cost-effective enhancement of leafy vegetable yield and health-promoting quality may be achieved by combining moderate stress conditions with the application...

Influence of triacontanol and salt stress on the growth and metabolism of spinach

Publié en ligne: 18 janv. 2022

Pages: 65 - 76

Reçu: 30 juin 2021

Accepté: 15 août 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausae-2021-0006

Mots clés
biostimulant, carbon assimilation, carotenoids, quantum yield, salinity

© 2021 Bernát Tompa et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Influence of triacontanol and salt stress on the growth and metabolism of spinach

Publié en ligne: 18 janv. 2022

Pages: 65 - 76

Reçu: 30 juin 2021

Accepté: 15 août 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausae-2021-0006

Mots clésbiostimulant, carbon assimilation, carotenoids, quantum yield, salinity

© 2021 Bernát Tompa et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
biostimulant, carbon assimilation, carotenoids, quantum yield, salinity