Magnetic Seed Treatment Modulates Phenolic and Fatty Acid Metabolism of Sunflower under Water Scarcity
Environmental and anthropogenic activities are pushing the earth towards warmer years, which is reducing agricultural land and causing water scarcity. It is well documented that sunflower (being drought tolerant) crops can be grown under water deficit conditions with some additional supportive primi...
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| author | Beenish Afzal Zaib un Nisa Rohina Bashir Naila Ali Saqib Mahmood Muhammad Azeem Fatima Batool Abdul Wahid Muhammad Iqbal Abdulaziz Abdullah Alsahli Prashant Kaushik |
| author_facet | Beenish Afzal Zaib un Nisa Rohina Bashir Naila Ali Saqib Mahmood Muhammad Azeem Fatima Batool Abdul Wahid Muhammad Iqbal Abdulaziz Abdullah Alsahli Prashant Kaushik |
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| description | Environmental and anthropogenic activities are pushing the earth towards warmer years, which is reducing agricultural land and causing water scarcity. It is well documented that sunflower (being drought tolerant) crops can be grown under water deficit conditions with some additional supportive priming applications to compensate for drought-induced challenges. However, finding the most efficient and eco-friendly priming tools is always a top priority among researchers to improve plant growth, adaptive traits, and productivity. In this study, an experiment was performed on oil-producing crops (sunflower) using seed magnetic treatment. The seeds were subjected to 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3 Tesla for 20 min, respectively. Plants were exposed to water limitation (100 and 50%) after 30 days of germination. Sunflower showed its tolerance to water limitation by maintaining the majority of growth parameters, nutritive value, metabolizable energy, and higher proline content. Nevertheless, a reduction in the achene number per capitulum, capitulum weight, chlorophyll, catalase activity, unsaturated to saturated fatty acids, anthocyanin, and hydroxyl derivatives of cinnamic acid supported our hypothesis about the need for some supportive techniques. Better metabolic adjustment and percentage of oil yield were manifested by 0.3 T magnetic seed treatment, which was used for phenolic and fatty acid profiling. To conclude, magnetic treatment of seeds may improve their primary metabolic capacity and antioxidation potential, which in turn may activate their secondary metabolism as evidenced by an excess of gallic acid, quercetin, benzoic acid, curcumin acid, sinapic acid, and chlorogenic acid. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8dc32a36e006408e8d79be8176e1faab2023-11-18T23:54:56ZengMDPI AGAgronomy2073-43952023-08-01138209410.3390/agronomy13082094Magnetic Seed Treatment Modulates Phenolic and Fatty Acid Metabolism of Sunflower under Water ScarcityBeenish Afzal0Zaib un Nisa1Rohina Bashir2Naila Ali3Saqib Mahmood4Muhammad Azeem5Fatima Batool6Abdul Wahid7Muhammad Iqbal8Abdulaziz Abdullah Alsahli9Prashant Kaushik10Department of Botany, Government College University, Faisalabad 38000, PakistanInstitute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore 54000, PakistanDepartment of Botany, Government College University, Faisalabad 38000, PakistanInstitute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore 54000, PakistanDepartment of Botany, Government College University, Faisalabad 38000, PakistanDepartment of Botany, Bahrain University, Sakhir 32038, BahrainDepartment of Botany, Division of Science and Technology, University of Education Lahore, Lahore 54770, PakistanDepartment of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38000, PakistanDepartment of Botany, Government College University, Faisalabad 38000, PakistanBotany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi ArabiaInstituto de Conservación y Mejora de la Agrodiversidad Valenciana, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, SpainEnvironmental and anthropogenic activities are pushing the earth towards warmer years, which is reducing agricultural land and causing water scarcity. It is well documented that sunflower (being drought tolerant) crops can be grown under water deficit conditions with some additional supportive priming applications to compensate for drought-induced challenges. However, finding the most efficient and eco-friendly priming tools is always a top priority among researchers to improve plant growth, adaptive traits, and productivity. In this study, an experiment was performed on oil-producing crops (sunflower) using seed magnetic treatment. The seeds were subjected to 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3 Tesla for 20 min, respectively. Plants were exposed to water limitation (100 and 50%) after 30 days of germination. Sunflower showed its tolerance to water limitation by maintaining the majority of growth parameters, nutritive value, metabolizable energy, and higher proline content. Nevertheless, a reduction in the achene number per capitulum, capitulum weight, chlorophyll, catalase activity, unsaturated to saturated fatty acids, anthocyanin, and hydroxyl derivatives of cinnamic acid supported our hypothesis about the need for some supportive techniques. Better metabolic adjustment and percentage of oil yield were manifested by 0.3 T magnetic seed treatment, which was used for phenolic and fatty acid profiling. To conclude, magnetic treatment of seeds may improve their primary metabolic capacity and antioxidation potential, which in turn may activate their secondary metabolism as evidenced by an excess of gallic acid, quercetin, benzoic acid, curcumin acid, sinapic acid, and chlorogenic acid.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/13/8/2094magnetic treatmentlimited waterantioxidantsphenolicsfatty acidprofile |
| spellingShingle | Beenish Afzal Zaib un Nisa Rohina Bashir Naila Ali Saqib Mahmood Muhammad Azeem Fatima Batool Abdul Wahid Muhammad Iqbal Abdulaziz Abdullah Alsahli Prashant Kaushik Magnetic Seed Treatment Modulates Phenolic and Fatty Acid Metabolism of Sunflower under Water Scarcity Agronomy magnetic treatment limited water antioxidants phenolics fatty acid profile |
| title | Magnetic Seed Treatment Modulates Phenolic and Fatty Acid Metabolism of Sunflower under Water Scarcity |
| title_full | Magnetic Seed Treatment Modulates Phenolic and Fatty Acid Metabolism of Sunflower under Water Scarcity |
| title_fullStr | Magnetic Seed Treatment Modulates Phenolic and Fatty Acid Metabolism of Sunflower under Water Scarcity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Magnetic Seed Treatment Modulates Phenolic and Fatty Acid Metabolism of Sunflower under Water Scarcity |
| title_short | Magnetic Seed Treatment Modulates Phenolic and Fatty Acid Metabolism of Sunflower under Water Scarcity |
| title_sort | magnetic seed treatment modulates phenolic and fatty acid metabolism of sunflower under water scarcity |
| topic | magnetic treatment limited water antioxidants phenolics fatty acid profile |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/13/8/2094 |
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