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Abstract

Mangroves growing in intertidal areas are faced with various stresses caused by coastal human activities and oceanic and atmospheric sources. Although the study of the physiological and biochemical characteristics of mangroves has been developing over the past four decades, the effect of upwelling on mangroves in plants stress resistance has seldom been investigated. Here, changes in the physiological and biochemical characteristics of the leaves of Kandelia obovata seedlings in response to upwelling were investigated (air temperature: 25 °C; water temperature: control 25 °C, 13 °C, and 5 °C; salinity: 10‰). The results revealed that upwelling treatment caused an increase in chlorophyll content but a decrease in photosynthetic fluorescence parameters. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) production and malondialdehyde activity (MDA) increased with the decrease in upwelling temperature. The proline content increased under upwelling stress, whereas the soluble sugar content decreased. Further, the activities of antioxidant enzymes, such as superoxide dismutase activity (SOD) and peroxidase activity (POD), showed an increasing trend during the treatment, while catalase activity (CAT) decreased. It was evidenced that upwelling stress triggered the physiological and biochemical responses of Kandelia obovata seedlings. This effect became more intense as the upwelling temperature decreased, and all these indicators showed different responses to upwelling stress. Through synthesizing more energy and regulating enzyme activity and osmotic pressure, the leaves of K. obovata formed a resistance mechanism to short-term upwelling.

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Title
Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Kandelia obovata to Upwelling Stress
Author
Li, Xiaomei 1 ; Wang, Youshao 2 ; Dong, Junde 2 ; Wu, Meilin 2 

 State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China; [email protected] (X.L.); [email protected] (Y.W.); [email protected] (J.D.); Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China; Innovation Academy of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Guangzhou 510301, China; College of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 
 State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China; [email protected] (X.L.); [email protected] (Y.W.); [email protected] (J.D.); Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China; Innovation Academy of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Guangzhou 510301, China 
First page
899
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20734441
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2642491760
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.