Abstract
The influence of phytohormones, salicylic acid (SA) and methyl jasmonate (MJ) on the antioxidant systems in Haematococcuspluvialis was investigated. Both SA and MJ at 500 μM concentration reduced the growth of alga with salicylic acid, having more pronounced effect. Carotenoid and chlorophyll contents were decreased by SA and increased by MJ. Salicylic acid (100 μM) increased astaxanthin content to 6.8-fold under low light (30 μmol m-2 s-1), while MJ (10 μM) showed marginal increase in astaxanthin. Salicylic acid (500 μM) increased superoxide dismutase activity to 4. 5- and 3.3-fold and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) activity to 15.5- and 7.1-fold under low and high light, respectively. Methyl jasmonate increased catalase activity (1.4-fold) under high light and APX activity (5.4-fold) under low light. Different mechanism of oxidative stress induced antioxidant production may be the plausible reason for this varied response for salicylic acid and methyl jasmonate. Higher concentrations of SA and MJ inhibited astaxanthin accumulation by different mechanisms either by scavenging the free radicals or by increasing primary carotenoids production. At lower concentrations, these phytohormones could be used for elicitation of secondary carotenoid production.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1043-1049 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Acta Physiologiae Plantarum |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments The author RV acknowledges Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, for Research Fellowship. Encouragement by Dr. V. Prakash, Director and G. A. Ravishankar, Head, PCBT, CFTRI for research activities is gratefully acknowledged.
Keywords
- Ascorbate peroxidase
- Astaxanthin
- Catalase
- Haematococcus pluvialis
- Phytohormones
- Superoxide dismutase