Photosynthetica 2020, 58(SI):529-539 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2019.179

Special issue in honour of Prof. Reto J. Strasser – Environmental pollution is reflected in the activity of the photosynthetic apparatus

S. HAJIHASHEMI1, M. BRESTIC2,3, H.M. KALAJI5, M. SKALICKY3, F. NOEDOOST1
1 Plant Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Behbahan Khatam Alanbia University of Technology, Khuzestan, Iran
2 Department of Plant Physiology, Slovak University of Agriculture, A. Hlinku 2, 94976 Nitra, Slovak Republic
3 Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 16500 Prague, Czech Republic
5 Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agriculture and Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences WULS-SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland

The efficiency of chlorophyll (Chl) fluorescence for forecasting plant response to environmental pollution was examined in four wheat cultivars. The plants were irrigated with wastewater from Razi petrochemical complex. A forecasting model was designed based on the data of maximal quantum yield of photosystem II (Fv/Fm), efficiency of both photosystems (PIABS), and Chl contents of 60-d analysis. A comparison of the forecasting model results with the real data of Fv/Fm, PIABS, and Chl in response to wastewater suggested Fv/Fm as an accurate tool for stress forecasting. The high salt concentration in wastewater induced high accumulation of H2O2, lipid peroxidation, inhibition of photosynthesis, and reduction in contents of proteins and carbohydrates, which resulted in growth suppression of all cultivars. Taken together, the negative effect of environmental pollution on crop can be detected at an early stage of stress using Fv/Fm as a fast and accurate tool to prevent irrecoverable damage to plants.

Additional key words: antioxidant; early intervention; metabolites; reactive oxygen species; yield.

Received: November 12, 2019; Revised: December 16, 2019; Accepted: December 20, 2019; Prepublished online: March 6, 2020; Published: May 28, 2020  Show citation

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HAJIHASHEMI, S., BRESTIC, M., KALAJI, H.M., SKALICKY, M., & NOEDOOST, F. (2020). Special issue in honour of Prof. Reto J. Strasser – Environmental pollution is reflected in the activity of the photosynthetic apparatus. Photosynthetica, 58(SPECIAL ISSUE), 529-539. doi: 10.32615/ps.2019.179
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