Abstract:
Objective In order to lay a theoretical basis for the large-scale management and water-saving irrigation of Dendrocalamopsis oldhamii container seedling, the method of simulating drought environment was employed to study the physiological characteristics of different nutrition absorb organs with different drought levels.
Method The tissue culture D. oldhamii were selected as research object. The antioxidant enzyme, malonaldehyde, leaf photosynthetic pigment content and the roots activities were measured with different drought stress levels.
Result The experiment showed that under simulated drought environment, with the increase of drought stress, the chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and carotenoids of D. oldhamii leaves decreased significantly (P < 0.05), after rehydration, the chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b recovered significantly (P < 0.05), but the carotenoids was not significant(P>0.05). The roots activities under moderate drought stress (MS) and severe drought stress (SS) decreased by 14.35% and 33.31% compared to control (P < 0.05), and after re-watering, the root activities increased by 96.75% and 73.84% respectively. The superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and peroxidase (POD) activities as well as malonaldehyde (MDA) content both in leaves and roots increased significantly, and after re-watering all of them decreased significantly. Moreover, the compensation ability after moderate drought stress (MS-CK) was significantly better than that after severe drought stress (SS-CK) (P < 0.05).
Conclusion Under simulated drought environment, with the increase of drought stress, the root activity and leaf photosynthetic pigment content decrease significantly, on the contrary, the SOD, CAT and POD activity as well as MDA content increase. After re-watering, the root activity and leaf pigment content rise significantly, and the SOD, CAT and POD activity as well as MDA content decrease significantly. Moreover, the compensation ability under moderate drought is significantly better than that under severe drought. Different nutrition organs are not the same in removing active oxygen and repairing ability. It is also found that there is a negative correlation between the root activity and the photosynthetic pigment content of D. oldhamii and the degree of drought stress, while MDA content, SOD, CAT and POD activity are positively related to the degree of drought stress.