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Effect of drought stress on some morphophysiological characteristics and phenolic compounds of rosemary plant (Rosmarinus officinalis L.)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Horticulture, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

2 Department of Natural Resources, Fars Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Centre, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Shiraz, 193953697, Iran

Abstract

Existence of environmental abiotic stresses, especially drought stress, is one of the most important problems in arid and semi-arid regions. Drought stress occurs when the plant receives less water than its losses. This research was carried out to investigate the effect of drought stress on morphological traits, proline content and phenolic compounds of rosemary herb in a completely randomized design with 3 replications in Department of Natural Resources, Fars Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Centre. Drought stress was applied at four levels (100%, 75%, 50%, and 25% field capacity). The measured traits were fresh and dry weight of aerial and root organs, leaf area, leaf number, plant length, leaf proline content and phenolic compounds. In this research, rosemary plants were found to have no significant difference in terms of fresh and dry weight of shoot, root fresh weight, shoot length, and normal conditions (FC 100%) in drought stress conditions with 75% field capacity. Also, under drought stress conditions with an intensity of 75% of the field capacity, root length increased to 27.67 centimeters. Root dry weight, leaf area and leaf number decreased significantly under drought stress conditions. In drought stress conditions with a 25% field capacity, the amount of Quercetin (439.04 mg/L), Trans-ferulic acid (72.48 mg/L), Hesperedin (407.62 mg/L), Eugenol (65.36 mg/L), Hesperetin (107.34 mg/L), Rosmarinic acid (1133.34 mg/L) significantly increased. Proline content in drought stress conditions of 25% field capacity was 79.72 μm/g.

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Environmental Stresses in Crop Sciences
Volume 14, Issue 2
Open Access Policy
June 2021
Pages 439-448
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  • Receive Date: 23 June 2019
  • Revise Date: 01 September 2019
  • Accept Date: 02 October 2019
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