Effect of Caffeic Acid on Growth and Reducing the Destructive Effects of Salinity on Greenhouse Cucumber (Cucumis sativus var. Super daminos)

Haghighi, Maryam; Masoumi, Zeinab

doi:10.22034/iuvs.2021.131965.1114

Effect of Caffeic Acid on Growth and Reducing the Destructive Effects of Salinity on Greenhouse Cucumber (Cucumis sativus var. Super daminos)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Maryam Haghighi ¹

Zeinab Masoumi ²

¹ Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.

² M.Sc. Graduate, Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

10.22034/iuvs.2021.131965.1114

Abstract

To investigate the effect of different levels of salinity and caffeic acid on growth and physiological characteristics of cucumber (Cucumis sativus var. Super daminos), a factorial experiment was conducted in completely randomized design with three replications with salinity treatments 0, 50, 100, 150 mM NaCl and caffeic acid 2, 4 and 6 mg.L^-1 in research greenhouse of Isfahan University of Technology. The results showed that shoot dry weight at a concentration of 6 mg.L^-1 reduced. In all salinity levels, treatments lacking caffeic acid showed the lowest amount of photosynthesis that the lowest amount observed in 50 mM NaCl × 4 mg.L^-1 caffeic acid treatment. Relative water content in lacking saline treatments decreased significantly with increasing caffeic acid concentration, but at the highest salinity level, 4 mg.L^-1 caffeic acid application increased the relative water content. Caffeic acid application increased salinity levels of 100 and 150 mg.L^-1 and increased antioxidant activity than control so that the highest amount was observed in 150 mM NaCl × 2 mg.L^-1 caffeic acid (0.27 %) and 100 mM NaCl × 6 mg.L^-1 caffeic acid (0.25 %) treatments. It seems that caffeic acid at low concentrations improves the growth and physiological characteristics of cucumber, but has a toxic effect in high concentrations.

Keywords

Caffeic acid

Chlorophyll fluorescence

Phenol

Proline

Salinity stress

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