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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (34): 5-14.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb20200100023

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Evaluation of Drought Tolerance of Maize Seedlings Based-on Gold Nanoparticles Synthesis Method

Wei Dongwei1(), Xie Juanjuan1, Zhou Yaping1, Sun Wuyong2, Ren Yuanyu1   

  1. 1College of Life Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002
    2Henan Anbinuo Testing Technology Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou 450001
  • Received:2020-01-08 Revised:2020-07-03 Online:2020-12-05 Published:2020-12-15

Abstract:

To detect the antioxidant activity of maize seedlings before and after drought stress by using gold nanoparticles (GNPs) synthesis method and then evaluate the drought tolerance of maize seedlings, four maize varieties (‘Zhengdan 958’, ‘Xundan 20’, ‘Denghai 662’ and ‘Yuyu 22’) were selected and their antioxidant activity was detected by GNPs synthesis method. GNPs synthesis method was used to test the antioxidant activity, and the conditions were optimized and methodologically confirmed. GNPs were characterized by transmission electron microscope (TEM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). At the same time, the results of DPPH, FRAP and FC methods were compared. The methods including phenotypic identification, SOD activity and MDA content determination were used to detect the drought tolerance of maize seedlings. Correlation analysis and principal component analysis were performed on the detection results of the above methods. The results showed that the antioxidant activity of seedlings of the four maize varieties was from strong to weak detected by GNPs synthesis method as: ‘Zhengdan 958’> ‘Xundan 20’> ‘Denghai 662’> ‘Yuyu 22’, which was consistent with the results of traditional methods and drought resistance detection. The results of correlation analysis and principal component analysis showed that the GNPs synthesis method was well correlated with other methods and had a high expression in explaining the total variation, indicating that it is feasible to evaluate the drought resistance of maize seedlings.

Key words: gold nanoparticles, maize seedling, detection, antioxidant activity, evaluation, drought tolerance

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