Assessing the effects of in vitro imposed water stress on pineapple growth in relation to biochemical stress indicators using polynomial regression analysis

Authors

  • Daviel GÓMEZ Universidad de Concepción, Facultad de Ingeniería, Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Laboratorio de CarboCat, Región del Bio-Bio (CL)
  • Doris ESCALANTE University of Ciego de Avila, Bioplant Center, Laboratory for Plant Breeding and Conservation of Genetic Resources, Ciego de Ávila, 69450 (CU)
  • Elliosha HAJARI Plant Improvement; Agricultural Research Council-Tropical and Subtropical Crops; Private Bag X11208, Nelspruit, 1200 (ZA)
  • Oscar VICENTE Universitat Politècnica de València, Institute for the Preservation and Improvement of Valencian Agrodiversity (COMAV), Valencia (ES) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5076-3784
  • . SERSHEN University of the Western Cape, Department for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Bellville, 7535 (ZA)
  • José Carlos LORENZO University of Ciego de Avila, Bioplant Center, Laboratory for Plant Breeding and Conservation of Genetic Resources, Ciego de Ávila, 69450 (CU)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15835/nbha48111844

Keywords:

Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.; biostatistics; drought; in vitro osmotic stress; mannitol; plant metabolites; temporary immersion bioreactors (TIBs)

Abstract

Knowing the mechanisms that operate under water stress in commercial crops, particularly those that can affect productivity, such as phenolic or cell wall metabolism, is becoming increasingly important in a scenario of global climate change. However, our understanding of how to analyse statistically the relationships between these commonly used biochemical markers of water stress and growth in crops like pineapple, needs to be improved. In the present work, we have addressed the question of whether polynomial regression analysis can be used to describe the influence of selected plant metabolites (chlorophylls, carotenoids, phenolics and aldehydes) on shoot biomass, in response to a mannitol-induced water stress in temporary immersion bioreactors (TIBs). Polynomial regression analysis has been applied to investigate plant stress responses in many species but is very seldom used in in vitro screening studies. Here, the relationship between biochemical indicators (x; independent variable) and shoot growth (y; dependent variable) has been characterised, with y modelled as an nth degree polynomial in x. This statistical approach accommodated for the non-linear (curvilinear) relationships between variables, and the results showed that shoot biomass was negatively, and significantly correlated with soluble phenolics, cell wall-linked phenolics and other aldehydes (characterised by “High” R2 values).

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2020-03-31

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GÓMEZ, D. ., ESCALANTE, D. ., HAJARI, E. ., VICENTE, O., SERSHEN, ., & LORENZO, J. C. . (2020). Assessing the effects of in vitro imposed water stress on pineapple growth in relation to biochemical stress indicators using polynomial regression analysis. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 48(1), 162–170. https://doi.org/10.15835/nbha48111844

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