Plants (Jun 2024)

The Response and Evaluation of Morphology, Physiology, and Biochemistry Traits in Triploid <i>Passiflora edulis</i> Sims ‘Mantianxing’ to Drought Stress

  • Xin Su,
  • Zhenxin Yang,
  • Chiyu Zhou,
  • Shili Geng,
  • Shi Chen,
  • Nianhui Cai,
  • Junrong Tang,
  • Lin Chen,
  • Yulan Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13121685
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 12
p. 1685

Abstract

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As one of the most influential environmental factors, drought stress greatly impacts the development and production of plants. Triploid-induced Passiflora edulis Sims ‘Mantianxing’ is an important new cultivar for multi-resistance variety selective breeding, which is one of the P. edulis breeding essential targets. However, the performance of triploid ‘Mantianxing’ under drought stress is unknown. In order to study the drought resistance of triploid ‘Mantianxing’, our study compared drought-related indicators in diploids and triploids under natural drought experiments, including morphological, physiological, and biochemical characteristics. Results showed that triploid P. edulis ‘Mantianxing’ showed variable responses to drought treatment. Compared with diploids, triploids showed higher photosynthesis and chlorophyll fluorescence, osmotic adjustment substances, and antioxidant enzyme activity under drought stress and faster chlorophyll biosynthesis and growth recovery after rewatering. Generally speaking, these results indicate that the drought resistance of triploid P. edulis is superior to diploid. This study provides scientific information for breeding stress tolerance variety of P. edulis ‘Mantianxing’ new cultivar.

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