| dc.creator | Alkhateeb,Suliman A | |
| dc.creator | Alkhateeb,Abdullatif A | |
| dc.creator | Solliman,Mohei EL-Din | |
| dc.date | 2015-01-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-02T21:22:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-02T21:22:31Z | |
| dc.identifier | https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602015000100063 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/82599 | |
| dc.description | BACKGROUND: Salinity is a serious factor limiting the productivity of agricultural plants. One of the potential problems for plants growing under saline conditions is the inability to up take enough K+. The addition of K+ may considerably improve the salt tolerance of plants grown under salinity. It is assumed that increasing the K+ supply at the root zone can ameliorate the reduction in growth imposed by high salinity. The present study aims to determine whether an increase in the K/Na ratio in the external media would enhance the growth of date palm seedlings under in vitro saline conditions METHODS: Date palm plants were grown at four concentrations of Na + K/Cl (mol/m³) with three different K/Na ratios. The 12 salt treatments were added to modified MS medium. The modified MS medium was further supplemented with sucrose at 30 g/l RESULTS: Growth decreased substantially with increasing salinity. Growth expressed as shoot and root weight, enhanced significantly with certain K/Na ratios, and higher weight was maintained in the presence of equal K and Na. It is the leaf length, leaf thickness and root thickness that had significant contribution on total dry weight. Na+ contents in leaf and root increased significantly increased with increasing salinity but substantial decreases in Na+ contents were observed in the leaf and root with certain K/Na ratios. This could be attributed to the presence of a high K+ concentration in the media. The internal Na+ concentration was higher in the roots in all treatments, which might indicate a mechanism excluding Na+ from the leaves and its retention in the roots. K/Na ratios up to one significantly increased the leaf and root K+ concentration, and it was most pronounced in leaves. The K+ contents in leaf and root was not proportional to the K+ increase in the media, showing a high affinity for K+ uptake at lower external K+ concentrations, but this mechanism continues to operate even with high external Na+ concentrations CONCLUSION: Increasing K/Na ratios in the growing media of date plam significantly reduced the absorption of Na+ less than 200 mM and also balance ions compartmentalization | |
| dc.format | text/html | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Sociedad de Biología de Chile | |
| dc.relation | 10.1186/S40659-015-0055-2 | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.source | Biological Research v.48 2015 | |
| dc.subject | Date palm | |
| dc.subject | In vitro | |
| dc.subject | Ion relations | |
| dc.subject | K/Na ratio | |
| dc.subject | Salinity | |
| dc.title | In vitro response of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) to K/Na ratio under saline conditions | |
