Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Corresponding Author, Department of Ecology, Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran. E-mail: h.oloumi@kgut.ac.ir

2 Department of Ecology, Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran. E-mail: alizamani65@gmail.com

3 Department of Ecology, Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran. E-mail: h.mozafari@kgut.ac.ir

4 Department of Agricultural Science, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran. E-mail: soudabeh.nourzad@srbiau.ac.ir

10.22059/jci.2023.351060.2761

Abstract

Objective: The present research was conducted with the aim of evaluating the effect of melatonin treatment on the tolerance of basil plants to the excess of copper and zinc mineral elements.
Methods: The effect of melatonin treatment (at two levels of 0 and 100 micromolar) on the tolerance of basil plants to the excess of mineral elements copper (50 and 150 μM) and zinc (50 and 100 μM) as factorial layout based on a completely randomized design with 3 replications and at 2017 in greenhouse conditions at Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman Done.
Results: The triple effect of melatonin and zinc and copper and the double effect of melatonin and zinc on the relative water content of leaves, total chlorophyll, carotenoid, protein, soluble and reduced sugar, anthocyanin and flavonoid were significant at 1% probability level. Membrane stability indices and relative water content of leaves were improved by applying melatonin in the basil plant separately and together with copper and zinc metals. The amount of reducing sugars, chlorophyll, and carotenoids decreased under the influence of zinc and copper toxicity.
Conclusion: melatonin by improving physiological characteristics, especially membrane stability, as well as flavonoid compounds, anthocyanin, and glutathione; It led to the reduction of the negative effects caused by excessive amounts of copper and zinc, especially at a concentration of 50 micromolar of these two metals on growth parameters.

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زمانی بابگهری، علی؛ علومی، حکیمه؛ مظفری، حسین و آروین، محمد جواد (1397، بهمن). بهبود پاسخ‏های رشدی و فیزیولوژیکی گیاه ریحان سبز (Ocimum basilicum) بر تیماردهی هم‌زمان ملاتونین با مقادیر بیش‌بود فلزات روی و مس. ششمین کنگره ملی زیست‌شناسی و علوم طبیعی ایران. تهران، https://civilica.com/doc/848890
عسگری‏لجایر، حمایت؛ متشرع‏زاده، بابک؛ ثواقبی‏فیروزآبادی غلامرضا و هادیان، جواد (1394). تأثیر مس و روی بر ویژگی‏های رشدی، غلظت برخی عناصر معدنی و ظرفیت انتقال عناصر به دمکرده و جوشانده گیاه دارویی بالنگوی شهری (Lallemantia iberica F. & C.M) کشت شده در شرایط گلخانه‏ای. روابط خاک و گیاه (علوم و فنون کشت‏های گلخانه‏ای). 6(22)، 145-160.
 
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