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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (33): 6-13.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2024-0726

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Effects of Spraying Exogenous Salicylic Acid on Growth of Rice Seedlings Under Low Temperature Stress

ZHU Feifei1,2(), LU Chusheng1, ZHANG Yufen1, QIN Yuanyu1, YIN Yuanhong1, PENG Binfeng1, YE Qunhuan1, ZHONG Xuhua1, PAN Junfeng1, LIU Yanzhuo1, HU Xiangyu1, HU Rui1, LI Meijuan1, WANG Xinyu1, LIANG Kaiming1, FU Youqiang1()   

  1. 1 Rice Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Guangdong Key Laboratory of New Technology in Rice Breeding/ Key Laboratory of Genetics and Breeding of High Quality Rice in Southern China (Co-construction by Ministry and Province), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Guangdong Rice Engineering Laboratory, Guangzhou 510640
    2 Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei 434023
  • Received:2024-11-29 Revised:2025-02-15 Online:2025-11-25 Published:2025-12-01

Abstract:

To alleviate the damage of low-temperature stress to rice seedlings, a rice cultivar ‘Qingxiangyou 19 xiang’ was used to compare the effects of different concentrations of salicylic acid (0, 10, 100, 1000 µmol/L) by leaf spraying on the biomass, root system architecture, malondialdehyde (MDA), proline and antioxidant enzyme activities of rice seedlings under low temperature (8℃) stress. The results showed that with the increase of salicylic acid concentration, the root system architecture, plant height, and biomass of the rice seedlings under low temperature treatment presented a trend of first increasing and then decreasing, and the indicators were highest in the seedlings sprayed with 10 µmol/L salicylic acid. Compared with the control, the total root length and plant height of rice seedlings increased by 36.49% and 17.14%, respectively, and the root biomass, shoot biomass, and total biomass increased by 46.02%, 16.60%, and 21.93%, the proline content and the peroxidase (POD) activity increased by 529.87% and 40.6%, the MDA content reduced by 37.04%, under 10 µmol/L salicylic acid treatment. The above results indicated that the 10 µmol/L salicylic acid alleviated the low-temperature stress of rice seedlings by increasing POD activity and proline content, and by reducing MDA content.

Key words: salicylic acid, rice, low-temperature stress, proline, malondialdehyde, antioxidant enzyme