Improving Photosynthetic Responses during Recovery from Heat Treatments with Brassinosteroid and Calcium Chloride in Indian Bread Wheat Cultivars

Abstract

Climate change is expected to unleash severe and frequent heat waves in future, adversely affecting crop productivity. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of two separate episodes of heat stress, mimicking heat wave conditions on the physiology of four Indian bread wheat cultivars and to study the ameliorating effects of epibrassinolide (BR) and calcium chloride on the recovery of these cultivars. The two thermo-tolerant cultivars C306 and K7903 suffered less inhibition of photosystem II efficiency as compared to the two thermo-susceptible cultivars HD2329 and PBW343. Application of BR and calcium chloride resulted in faster recovery in all the four cultivars. Measurement of the minimum fluorescence (Fo) versus temperature curves revealed a higher inflection temperature of Fo (Ti) for the two tolerant cultivars as compared to the susceptible cultivars, emphasizing greater thermo stability of the photosynthetic apparatus. The two thermo-tolerant cultivars showed higher photochemistry (ΦPSII) relative to the two susceptible cultivars. An increase in the steady state fluorescence was observed in both the susceptible cultivars as compared to the tolerant cultivars. Expression analysis revealed faster recovery of the transcripts involved in photosynthesis in tolerant cultivars as compared to susceptible cultivars. Exogenous application of the ameliorating compounds resulted in faster recovery of transcripts in all the cultivars. The result suggested that under severe stress conditions tolerant cultivars showed faster recovery and a better thermo-stability of its photosynthetic apparatus as compared to susceptible cultivars and application of epibrassinolide and calcium chloride could ameliorate the damaging effect of severe temperature stress to a considerable level in all the four cultivars under study.

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Hairat, S. and Khurana, P. (2015) Improving Photosynthetic Responses during Recovery from Heat Treatments with Brassinosteroid and Calcium Chloride in Indian Bread Wheat Cultivars. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 6, 1827-1849. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2015.611184.

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