Response of White Cabbage (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> var. <i>capitata</i>) to Single and Repeated Short-Term Waterlogging
Climate change has a significant impact on the agricultural sector, negatively affecting plants’ growth and development, with predicted strong consequences on food availability in the future. Although we are experiencing more frequent and intense heavy rainfall events, a major contributor to field f...
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| author | Anastazija Huđ Dunja Šamec Helena Senko Marko Petek Lidija Brkljačić Lucia Pole Boris Lazarević Ivana Rajnović Nikolina Udiković-Kolić Armin Mešić Goran Palijan Branka Salopek-Sondi Ines Petrić |
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| description | Climate change has a significant impact on the agricultural sector, negatively affecting plants’ growth and development, with predicted strong consequences on food availability in the future. Although we are experiencing more frequent and intense heavy rainfall events, a major contributor to field flooding, there is still not much known about the impact of these events on different crops. In this study, we investigated the effects of waterlogging on a model plant white cabbage (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> var. <i>capitata</i> f. <i>alba</i>), with the aim to follow its response to both single and recurrent short-term (72-h length) waterlogging, as well as to track difference in the sensitivity between plants in different growth stages (38- and 48-day-old plants). In our 22-day experiment, settled under fully controlled conditions (16 h day/8 h night, 25 °C day/20 °C night, 60–70% relative air humidity, 250 µmol m<sup>−2</sup> s<sup>−1</sup> photosynthetic active radiation), with the aim to more comprehensively recognize consequences of waterlogging on plants, we measured changes in plants on multiple levels: (i) within its morphological traits (number and length of leaves, leaf area, and blade width), (ii) within chlorophyll fluorescence and multispectral traits (20 parameters), (iii) following the levels of plant stress parameters (salicylic acid, abscisic acid, proline, and total polyphenols), and (iv) following changes in the plants’ elemental and mineral composition. According to our results, white cabbage was shown not to be very sensitive to waterlogging, with only plants exposed to repeated waterlogging showing signs of the congestion stress. These signs, observed in the changes of molecular stress parameters salicylic and abscisic acids, were not so clearly evident at the aboveground level. We did not observe changes in the plants’ morphologies, nor their photosynthetic performance. In addition, removal of waterlogging stress resulted in complete recovery of our model plants, suggesting a prompt adaptation response of white cabbage. With the projected increased frequency of occurrence of flooding events, it will become increasingly more important to recognize crops being highly sensitive to flooding with the aim to try to adapt to the changing climate. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-460110dee1dd49eb91c688ab047515012023-11-30T20:50:22ZengMDPI AGAgronomy2073-43952023-01-0113120010.3390/agronomy13010200Response of White Cabbage (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> var. <i>capitata</i>) to Single and Repeated Short-Term WaterloggingAnastazija Huđ0Dunja Šamec1Helena Senko2Marko Petek3Lidija Brkljačić4Lucia Pole5Boris Lazarević6Ivana Rajnović7Nikolina Udiković-Kolić8Armin Mešić9Goran Palijan10Branka Salopek-Sondi11Ines Petrić12Institute Ruđer Bošković, Bijenička cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, CroatiaDepartment of Food Technology, University North, Trg dr. Žarka Dolinara 1, 48 000 Koprivnica, CroatiaInstitute Ruđer Bošković, Bijenička cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, CroatiaFaculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10 000 Zagreb, CroatiaInstitute Ruđer Bošković, Bijenička cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, CroatiaInstitute Ruđer Bošković, Bijenička cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, CroatiaFaculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10 000 Zagreb, CroatiaFaculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10 000 Zagreb, CroatiaInstitute Ruđer Bošković, Bijenička cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, CroatiaInstitute Ruđer Bošković, Bijenička cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, CroatiaDepartment of Biology, University of Osijek, Ul. cara Hadrijana 8/A, 31 000 Osijek, CroatiaInstitute Ruđer Bošković, Bijenička cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, CroatiaInstitute Ruđer Bošković, Bijenička cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, CroatiaClimate change has a significant impact on the agricultural sector, negatively affecting plants’ growth and development, with predicted strong consequences on food availability in the future. Although we are experiencing more frequent and intense heavy rainfall events, a major contributor to field flooding, there is still not much known about the impact of these events on different crops. In this study, we investigated the effects of waterlogging on a model plant white cabbage (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> var. <i>capitata</i> f. <i>alba</i>), with the aim to follow its response to both single and recurrent short-term (72-h length) waterlogging, as well as to track difference in the sensitivity between plants in different growth stages (38- and 48-day-old plants). In our 22-day experiment, settled under fully controlled conditions (16 h day/8 h night, 25 °C day/20 °C night, 60–70% relative air humidity, 250 µmol m<sup>−2</sup> s<sup>−1</sup> photosynthetic active radiation), with the aim to more comprehensively recognize consequences of waterlogging on plants, we measured changes in plants on multiple levels: (i) within its morphological traits (number and length of leaves, leaf area, and blade width), (ii) within chlorophyll fluorescence and multispectral traits (20 parameters), (iii) following the levels of plant stress parameters (salicylic acid, abscisic acid, proline, and total polyphenols), and (iv) following changes in the plants’ elemental and mineral composition. According to our results, white cabbage was shown not to be very sensitive to waterlogging, with only plants exposed to repeated waterlogging showing signs of the congestion stress. These signs, observed in the changes of molecular stress parameters salicylic and abscisic acids, were not so clearly evident at the aboveground level. We did not observe changes in the plants’ morphologies, nor their photosynthetic performance. In addition, removal of waterlogging stress resulted in complete recovery of our model plants, suggesting a prompt adaptation response of white cabbage. With the projected increased frequency of occurrence of flooding events, it will become increasingly more important to recognize crops being highly sensitive to flooding with the aim to try to adapt to the changing climate.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/13/1/200white cabbageclimate changewaterloggingmorphological characteristicsstress parametersphotosynthetic ability |
| spellingShingle | Anastazija Huđ Dunja Šamec Helena Senko Marko Petek Lidija Brkljačić Lucia Pole Boris Lazarević Ivana Rajnović Nikolina Udiković-Kolić Armin Mešić Goran Palijan Branka Salopek-Sondi Ines Petrić Response of White Cabbage (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> var. <i>capitata</i>) to Single and Repeated Short-Term Waterlogging Agronomy white cabbage climate change waterlogging morphological characteristics stress parameters photosynthetic ability |
| title | Response of White Cabbage (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> var. <i>capitata</i>) to Single and Repeated Short-Term Waterlogging |
| title_full | Response of White Cabbage (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> var. <i>capitata</i>) to Single and Repeated Short-Term Waterlogging |
| title_fullStr | Response of White Cabbage (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> var. <i>capitata</i>) to Single and Repeated Short-Term Waterlogging |
| title_full_unstemmed | Response of White Cabbage (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> var. <i>capitata</i>) to Single and Repeated Short-Term Waterlogging |
| title_short | Response of White Cabbage (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> var. <i>capitata</i>) to Single and Repeated Short-Term Waterlogging |
| title_sort | response of white cabbage i brassica oleracea i var i capitata i to single and repeated short term waterlogging |
| topic | white cabbage climate change waterlogging morphological characteristics stress parameters photosynthetic ability |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/13/1/200 |
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