Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4555724 | Environmental and Experimental Botany | 2007 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The response of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cv. KPG-59 to pre-sowing seed treatment with 28-homobrassinolide (HBR) and/or sodium chloride (NaCl) was investigated. The seeds imbibed in aqueous solution of 10â10 or 10â8Â M of HBR for 8Â h, resulted in an increase in the values for most of the characteristics of shoot and root at 90-day stage and seed yield, at harvest. The plants resulting from the seeds soaked in HBR (10â8Â M) possessed 23% and 31% higher leaf nitrate reductase (E.C. 1.6.6.1) and carbonic anhydrase (E.C. 4.2.2.1) activities, 34% more dry mass, 30% higher nodule number, 31% and 18% more nodule fresh and dry mass, compared with water soaked, control. Leghaemoglobin content and nitrogenase activity (E.C. 1.7.99.2) were 28% and 30% higher while nodule nitrogen and carbohydrate contents decreased by 5% and 6%, compared with the control. Moreover, seed yield increased by 26% over the control, at harvest. The values for all the above characteristics declined significantly, in the plants raised from the seeds soaked in NaCl. However, this ill effect was overcome, if NaCl treatment was given before or after HBR treatment.
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Authors
B. Ali, S. Hayat, A. Ahmad,