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Title: Stomatal behavior and components of the antioxidative system in coffee plants under water stress
Other Titles: Comportamento estomático e componentes do sistema antioxidante em cafeeiros sob estresse hídrico
Keywords: Coffea arabica
Oxidative stress
Antioxidants
Water stress
Estresse oxidativo
Antioxidantes
Estresse hídrico
Issue Date: 2011
Publisher: Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz"
Citation: DEUNER, S. et al. Stomatal behavior and components of the antioxidative system in coffee plants under water stress. Scientia Agricola, Piracicaba, v. 68, n. 1, p. 77-85, Jan./Feb. 2011.
Abstract: Coffee (Coffea arabica) plants show a positive relationship between stomatal closure and formation and accumulation of H2O2. However, for coffee plants under water restriction such relationship has never been studied. The objective of the present study was evaluate the stomatal movement and the antioxidant capacity of coffee seedlings under different water regimes. Eight months old coffee seedlings of cv. Catuaí IAC 99 were submitted to field capacity, gradual and total suspension of irrigation during a period of 21 days. Evaluations of leaf water potential (Ψw) were performed in the beginning of the morning, and stomatal resistance, transpiration rate and vapor pressure deficit were determined at 10 am and 5 pm. All biochemical and enzymatic determinations were performed in leaves collected at 5 pm. Evaluations and samplings were performed at three days intervals. There was no variation in Ψw during the evaluated period for plants in field capacity. However, an expressive decrease of Ψw following day 12, reaching values near -2.5 MPa at the end of the experiment was observed for plants submitted to gradual suspension of irrigation. For plants submitted to total suspension of irrigation, Ψw decreases after the sixth day, reaching -2.5 MPa at day 15. The decay of Ψw in plants submitted to gradual and total suspension of irrigation reflected in increased stomatal resistance and in a decreased transpiration rate leading to an increase in hydrogen peroxide formation and, on final stages, increase in lipid peroxidation. As a conclusion, an increase in the activity of antioxidant enzymes as well as in the levels of ascorbate and dehydroascorbate was observed, which act in the detoxification of free radicals formed as result of the water stress.
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