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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (29): 45-51.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2022-0298

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PEG Simulated Drought Stress: Effects on Morphological Indices of Drought-tolerant and Drought-sensitive Sugar Beet Germplasms

SHI Yang1,2(), YIN Xilong1,2, LI Wangsheng1,2, XING Wang1,2()   

  1. 1National Beet Medium-term Gene Bank/Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080
    2Key Laboratory of Sugar Beet Genetics and Breeding/College of Advanced Agriculture and Ecological Environment, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080
  • Received:2022-04-14 Revised:2022-06-22 Online:2022-10-15 Published:2022-10-14
  • Contact: XING Wang E-mail:269060343@qq.com;xyjiayou_086@163.com

Abstract:

In order to provide a theoretical basis for the selection of drought-tolerant sugar beet germplasm and the research on sugar beet stress tolerance, the effects of different levels of drought stress on the growth of sugar beet seedlings were discussed. In this study, two drought-tolerant types of BGRC16137 (V1) and Ian 1 (V2) and two drought-sensitive types 92011/1-6/1 (V3) and 7412/823-3 (V4) were used as materials, and drought was simulated with PEG and the effect of drought stress on sugar beet was studied by significance test of difference and stepwise regression analysis. As the degree of drought stress increased, the aboveground and underground indices of seedlings and the relative leaf water content of the four sugar beet germplasms all showed significant decrease, and the root-shoot ratio gradually increased. Under various concentrations of drought stress, the drought-tolerant V1 and V2 germplasms showed lower decrease in leaf fresh weight, leaf dry weight, leaf saturated fresh weight, root length and root fresh weight than the drought-sensitive V3 and V4 germplasms. Under severe drought stress, the relative leaf water content of the drought-sensitive V3 and V4 germplasms decreased by 37.33% and 43.90%, respectively, compared with that of the control, while the relative leaf water content of the drought-tolerant V1 and V2 germplasms only decreased by 14.94% and 20.45%, respectively. The results suggested that the drought-tolerant sugar beet germplasms can adapt to drought stress by increasing leaf fresh weight, leaf dry weight, leaf saturated fresh weight, root length, root fresh weight and the relative leaf water content.

Key words: sugar beet, seedling, drought stress, morphological indices, response mechanisms

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