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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (26): 111-117.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2021-0898

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The Enhancement of Stress Resistance of Tea Plants by Herb Extract and Plant Essential Oil

LI Ronglin1(), TANG Jun1, AI Zeyi1, MU Bing1, YANG Yiyang1(), CHEN Zhengtao2, SHI Haihua2   

  1. 1Institute of Leisure Agriculture, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014
    2Yulian Ecology Agriculture Development Company LTD., Liyang, Jiangsu, 213333
  • Received:2021-09-16 Revised:2021-11-22 Online:2022-09-15 Published:2022-09-09
  • Contact: YANG Yiyang E-mail:L800LRL@163.com;yangyiyang_yyy@126.com

Abstract:

To understand the influence of herb extract and plant essential oil on the stress resistance of tea plant and to develop environment-friendly technology to improve tea plant resistance to various stresses, in this study, herb ethanol extracts (from the fresh shoots of rosemary, perilla and mint ) and biotic plant essential oil (methyl salicylate oil and methyl dihydrojasmonate) were made into 0.1% water solution which was used as external treatment agent to be sprayed on tea plants (7500 L/hm2 for each treatment, twice continuously) in early December. The results showed that after treatment, the content of amino acids in tea leaves was increased by 27.8%-55.6% and the content of polyphenols was increased by 3.93%-24.2%. The relative content of dialdehyde in tea leaves, except those treated by mint extract, was decreased by 9.2%-32.8%. The enzyme activity analysis showed that the polyphenol oxidase activity of tea leaves was increased by 1.89-4.35 times, the lipoxygenase activity was increased by 1.41-2.58 times, and the superoxide dismutase activity was increased by 1.98-15.7 times, respectively. The phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity was decreased except the treatment by rosemary and perilla extract. The expression of CsOPB3 in tea leaves, a key gene of jasmonic acid signal pathway, was significantly up-regulated after treatment with dihydrojasmonate, rosemary and perilla extract, but down-regulated after treatment with peppermint extract and holly oil. The scavenging ability of water extract of fresh tea leaves treated with herb extract or plant essential oil to superoxide free radical was increased by 1.3-2.9 times. The study shows that spraying herb extract and plant essential oil in early winter tea garden can improve the adaptability of tea plants to low temperature. According to the common indicating role of physiological indexes measured in this study to evaluate tea plants against other abiotic stresses or plant diseases and insect pests, the results further reveal that different herb extracts and plant essential oils used in the study could have a certain application value for tea plants against more abiotic and biotic stresses.

Key words: plant essential oil, herb extract, tea plant, stress resistance

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