Abstract | In order to study effects of exogenous abscisic acid (ABA) and its inhibitor sodium tungstate
on cold tolerance of Camellia sinensis ( Linn.) O. Ktze., taking two-year-old seedling of C. sinensis‘Longjing 43’ as experimental material, six treatment groups of single and mixed treatments of 50mg· L-1 ABA and 20 mmol· L-1 sodium tungstate (T1: only spraying distilled water, the control; T2:only spraying ABA; T3: only spraying sodium tungstate; T4: spraying ABA and sodium tungstate at the same time; T5: spraying ABA at 0 h, and spraying sodium tungstate at 24 h; T6: spraying sodium tungstate at 0 h, and spraying ABA at 24 h) were set up under low temperature (4 ℃), changes in osmoregulation substance content and antioxidant enzyme activity in leaf treating for 0 - 72 h were compared and analyzed. The results show that contents of soluble sugar, free proline and soluble protein and activities of superoxide dismutase ( SOD), catalase ( CAT ) and peroxidase ( POD ) in leaf of seedling in each treatment group increase gradually at the early stage of treatment, and afterwards, changing trends of each index are different. At the middle and later stages of treatment, except free proline content in T4 treatment group is lower than that in the control group, contents of soluble sugar, free proline and soluble protein in each treatment group are generally significantly higher than those in the control group; activities of SOD, CAT and POD in T2 treatment group are significantly higher than those in the control group, while in T3 treatment group, only SOD activity is obviously higher than that in the control group, and activities of CAT and POD are lower or slightly higher than those in the control group. The results of comparison on single and mixed treatment groups show that activities of SOD and POD in T4 treatment group are generally lower than those in T2 treatment group, but are higher than those in T3 treatment group, while its CAT activity is generally lower than that in T2 and T3 treatment groups. After treated for 24 h, changing trends of contents of soluble sugar, free proline and soluble protein and activities of SOD and POD in T5 treatment group are consistent with those in T2 treatment group; changing trends of contents of soluble sugar and free proline and POD activity in T6 treatment group are consistent with those in T3 treatment group, but there are a certain differences in changing trends of soluble protein content and activities of SOD and CAT between T6 treatment group and T3 treatment group. It is suggested that spraying proper amount of ABA or sodium tungstate can enhance osmoregulation substance content and antioxidant enzyme activity in leaf of C. sinensis under low temperature, but effect of spraying ABA and sodium tungstate at the same time on osmoregulation substance content and antioxidant enzyme activity in leaf of C. sinensis is not significant. |