Drought-Responsive Antioxidant Enzymes in Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) |
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Authors: | D Boguszewska M Grudkowska B Zagdańska |
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Institution: | (1) Potato Agronomy Department, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute Division, Jadwisin, 05-140 Serock, Poland;(2) Faculty of Agriculture and Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Warsaw University of Life Science, Nowoursynowska 159 street, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland |
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Abstract: | Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is highly sensitive to soil drought and extracts less of the available water from the soil than other crops. Even a very
short period of water shortage has a negative effect on consumptive and technological properties of potato tubers. The cause
of the poorer properties of potato tubers might not only be water shortage itself but could also be the enhanced production
of reactive oxygen species (ROS) accompanying practically every kind of stress, both biotic and abiotic. However, antioxidative
enzymes seem to counteract the ROS accumulation and, thus, might protect plants against the deleterious effects of environmental
stresses. Our research shows that increased activity of peroxidase, superoxide dismutase and catalase protects plants from
oxidative stress, and, consequently, against yield losses. |
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