Abstract:
Salinity-alkalinity stress is an important factor of restricting crop high-yield and good quality, Ca
2+ and H
2O
2 as signal molecules involved in crop response to stress. In order to understand whether Ca
2+ is involved in the regulation of H
2O
2 on the seed germination and seedling formation in plant under saline-alkali stress, using subordinate function analysis method, we studied the effects of extracellular dissociation Ca
2+ chelant EGTA, plasma membrane Ca
2+ channel blockers LaCl
3, tonoplast Ca
2+ release inhibitor ruthenium red(RR) and H
2O
2 on seed germination and seedling formation under saline-alkali complex stress(NaCl:Na
2SO
4:NaHCO
3:Na
2CO
3=12:8:9:1) with oat(
Avena nude). The results showed that 25-200 mmol·L
-1 saline-alkali complex stress significantly inhibited seed germination and seedling formation of oat, and its inhibition was more obvious as the concentration was increased. While 0.001-2 mmol·L
-1 H
2O
2 could promote the seed germination and seedling formation of oat, and 0.5 mmol·L
-1 H
2O
2 significantly relieve the inhibition of 75 mmol·L
-1 saline-alkali complex stress to seed germination and seedling formation of oat. After EGAT treatment, combining with LaCl
3 and RR, the effect of H
2O
2 was decreased. Therefore, Ca
2+ was involved in the signal transduction of seed germination and seedling formation of oat induced by H
2O
2 under saline-alkali mixed stress.