Suffer or Survive: Decoding Salt-Sensitivity of Lemongrass and Its Implication on Essential Oil Productivity
The cultivation of lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) crop is dominated by its medicinal, food preservative, and cosmetic demands. The growing economy of the lemongrass market suggests the immense commercial potential of lemongrass and its essential oil. Nevertheless, the continuous increase of the s...
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| description | The cultivation of lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) crop is dominated by its medicinal, food preservative, and cosmetic demands. The growing economy of the lemongrass market suggests the immense commercial potential of lemongrass and its essential oil. Nevertheless, the continuous increase of the saline regime threatens the growth and productivity of most of the plant life worldwide. In this regard, the present experiment explores the salt sensitiveness of the lemongrass crop against five different levels of salt stress. Metabolomic analyses suggest that lemongrass plants can effectively tolerate a salt concentration of up to 80 mM and retain most of their growth and productivity. However, extreme NaCl concentrations (≥160 mM) inflicted significant (α = 0.05) damage to the plant physiology and exhausted the lemongrass antioxidative defence system. Therefore, the highest NaCl concentration (240 mM) minimised plant height, chlorophyll fluorescence, and essential oil production by up to 50, 27, and 45%. The overall data along with the salt implications on photosynthetic machinery and ROS metabolism suggest that lemongrass can be considered a moderately sensitive crop to salt stress. The study, sensu lato, can be used in reclaiming moderately saline lands with lemongrass cultivation converting such lands from economic liability to economic asset. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-acd034045ee1472a9ec73c277822dda12022-12-22T00:27:09ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2022-06-011310.3389/fpls.2022.903954903954Suffer or Survive: Decoding Salt-Sensitivity of Lemongrass and Its Implication on Essential Oil ProductivityMohammad Mukarram0Mohammad Mukarram1M. Masroor A. Khan2Andleeb Zehra3Peter Petrik4Daniel Kurjak5Advanced Plant Physiology Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, IndiaDepartment of Integrated Forest and Landscape Protection, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, SlovakiaAdvanced Plant Physiology Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, IndiaAdvanced Plant Physiology Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, IndiaGlobal Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, CzechiaDepartment of Integrated Forest and Landscape Protection, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, SlovakiaThe cultivation of lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) crop is dominated by its medicinal, food preservative, and cosmetic demands. The growing economy of the lemongrass market suggests the immense commercial potential of lemongrass and its essential oil. Nevertheless, the continuous increase of the saline regime threatens the growth and productivity of most of the plant life worldwide. In this regard, the present experiment explores the salt sensitiveness of the lemongrass crop against five different levels of salt stress. Metabolomic analyses suggest that lemongrass plants can effectively tolerate a salt concentration of up to 80 mM and retain most of their growth and productivity. However, extreme NaCl concentrations (≥160 mM) inflicted significant (α = 0.05) damage to the plant physiology and exhausted the lemongrass antioxidative defence system. Therefore, the highest NaCl concentration (240 mM) minimised plant height, chlorophyll fluorescence, and essential oil production by up to 50, 27, and 45%. The overall data along with the salt implications on photosynthetic machinery and ROS metabolism suggest that lemongrass can be considered a moderately sensitive crop to salt stress. The study, sensu lato, can be used in reclaiming moderately saline lands with lemongrass cultivation converting such lands from economic liability to economic asset.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2022.903954/fullantioxidantsCymbopogonessential oilgeraniol dehydrogenasemedicinal and aromatic plant (MAP)oxidative stress |
| spellingShingle | Mohammad Mukarram Mohammad Mukarram M. Masroor A. Khan Andleeb Zehra Peter Petrik Daniel Kurjak Suffer or Survive: Decoding Salt-Sensitivity of Lemongrass and Its Implication on Essential Oil Productivity Frontiers in Plant Science antioxidants Cymbopogon essential oil geraniol dehydrogenase medicinal and aromatic plant (MAP) oxidative stress |
| title | Suffer or Survive: Decoding Salt-Sensitivity of Lemongrass and Its Implication on Essential Oil Productivity |
| title_full | Suffer or Survive: Decoding Salt-Sensitivity of Lemongrass and Its Implication on Essential Oil Productivity |
| title_fullStr | Suffer or Survive: Decoding Salt-Sensitivity of Lemongrass and Its Implication on Essential Oil Productivity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Suffer or Survive: Decoding Salt-Sensitivity of Lemongrass and Its Implication on Essential Oil Productivity |
| title_short | Suffer or Survive: Decoding Salt-Sensitivity of Lemongrass and Its Implication on Essential Oil Productivity |
| title_sort | suffer or survive decoding salt sensitivity of lemongrass and its implication on essential oil productivity |
| topic | antioxidants Cymbopogon essential oil geraniol dehydrogenase medicinal and aromatic plant (MAP) oxidative stress |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2022.903954/full |
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