Metabolic adaptation to flooding stress in upland and lowland rice seedlings

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Ability of metabolic adaptation in upland and lowland rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings to flooding stress was compared. Flooding stress increased alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) activity and ethanol concentration in shoots and roots of the upland and lowland rice seedlings. The difference in ADH activity and ethanol concentration in shoots between the upland and lowland rice was not apparent. However, both ADH activity and ethanol concentration in roots of the lowland rice were 2-fold greater than those in roots of the upland rice, suggesting that flooding-induction of ethanolic fermentation in lowland rice roots may be significantly greater than that in the upland rice roots. Since flooding often causes the anaerobic conditions in rooting zone than aerial part of plants and ethanolic fermentatioh is essential to survive in the anaerobic conditions, the ability of metabolic adaptation in lowland rice seedlings to flooding stress may be greater than that in upland rice seedlings.

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Kato-Noguchi, H., Ohashi, C., & Sasaki, R. (2003). Metabolic adaptation to flooding stress in upland and lowland rice seedlings. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 25(3), 257–261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-003-0006-3

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