Morphological, Physio-biochemical, and Molecular Indications of Heat Stress Tolerance in Cucumber

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Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2023 Nov 1

PMID 37907590

Authors

Eman El-Remaly

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Abstract

Global warming is a critical challenge limiting crop productivity. Heat stress during cucumber growing stages caused deterioration impacts on the flowering, fruit, and yield stages. In this study, "inbred line 1 and hybrid P1 × P2" (heat-tolerant) and "Barracuda" (heat-sensitive) were utilized to determine the heat tolerance in summer season. The heat injury index was used to exhibit the heat tolerance performance. The heat injury index for heat tolerant (HT) genotypes, on leaves (HIIL%) and female flowers (HIIF%), was less than 25 and 15 % in HT, compared to heat sensitive (HS) was more than 75 and 85%, respectively. Moreover, the content of leaf chlorophyll, proline, brassinosteroid (BRs), abscisic acid content (ABA), the activity of catalase (CAT, EC 1.11. 1.6), peroxidase (POD, EC 1.11.1.7) and superoxide dismutase (SOD, EC 1.15.1.1) increased with the heat stress responses in HT plants. Expression pattern analyses of eight genes, related to POD (CSGY4G005180 and CSGY6G015230), SOD (CSGY4G010750 and CSGY1G026400), CAT (CsGy4G025230 and CsGy4G025240), and BR (CsGy6G029150 and CsGy6G004930) showed a significant increase in HT higher than in HS plants. This study furnishes valuable markers for heat tolerance genotypes breeding in cucumber and provides a basis for understanding heat-tolerance mechanisms.

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