Sel’skokhozyaistvennaya Biologiya [Agricultural Biology], 2015, Vol. 50, № 3, pp. 353-360.

doi: 10.15389/agrobiology.2015.3.353eng

UDC 635.655:581.1:631.453

Supported by Russian Science Foundation (project № 14-16-00137).

METHOD FOR RAPID ASSESSMENT OF ALUMINUM TOLERANCE
OF PEA (Pisum sativum L.)

M.A. Vishnyakova1, E.V. Semenova1, I.A. Kosareva1, N.D. Kravchuk1,
C.I. Loskutov2, I.V. Pukhalskii2, A.I. Shaposhnikov2, A.L. Sazanova2,
A.A. Belimov2

1N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry, Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations, 42-44, ul. Bol’shaya Morskaya, St. Petersburg, 190000 Russia;

2All-Russian Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations, 3, sh. Podbel’skogo, St. Petersburg, 196608 Russia,
e-mail: belimov@rambler.ru

Received March 10, 2015

 

Crops vary considerably in their resistance to acidic soils, and many legumes, including pea (Pisum sativum L.), considered to be sensitive or moderately sensitive crops compared to cereals. The main factor determining the phytotoxicity of acidic soils is the increased concentration of mobile aluminum ions in the soil solution. Accumulation of aluminum in root tissues interferes with cell division, initiation of growth of lateral roots and uptake of minerals and water by plants. Under laboratory conditions the resistance of plants to aluminum is estimated by the degree of damage to the roots by aluminum using dyes (hematoxylin, eriochrome cyanine R) and the ability of roots to restore growth after toxic effect of this metal. This work dedicated to the development of rapid assessment of aluminum tolerance especially for peas, which is as follows: the seeds were germinated in the growth chamber in the nutrient solution for 3 days (7000 lx illumination, temperature of 19 °С at night and 21 °С during the day, photoperiod 16 h), treated with a toxic concentration of aluminum chloride (3 mg Al/l) for 24 hours, incubated in fresh nutrient solution without aluminum for 2 days and stained with 0.1 % eriochrome cyanine R for 10 min. Zone of root tissue damage by aluminum painted in the color purple. Plant resistance to aluminum was determined by the length of the root re-growth area after exposure to the toxicant. Using 19 varieties of pea from the N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry collection (VIR collection) it was shown that pea has high variability in tolerance to aluminum. Varieties with a minimum (1.0÷1.5 mm) length of the root re-growth (k-2759, k-3654 and k-3283) were characterized by intense purple color of the root, but varieties with a maximum (14.0÷14.5 mm) length of the root re-growth (k-4376, k-9504 and k-7307) had a faint but detectable staining. The proposed method makes it possible to identify genotypes contrasting in aluminum tolerance, is highly reproducible and can be used for screening and study of intra-specific variability in this trait of pea plants at very early developing stage.

Keywords: aluminum, hematoxylin, peas, soil acidification, acid tolerance, eriochrome cyanine R.

 

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