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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2007 | Volume: 10 | Issue: 23 | Page No.: 4275-4278
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2007.4275.4278
Influence of Ultraviolet-C Radiation on Some Growth Parameters of Mycorrhizal Wheat Plants
Samaneh Rahmatzadeh and Jalil Khara

Abstract: UV-C radiation (220-280 nm) is known to causing damage in some physiological growth parameters such as chlorophyll, carotenoid, protein and sugar contents. In this study, effect of some species of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on tolerance of UV-C radiation in wheat plants was studied. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv.Azar2) plants colonized by three species of mycorrhizae namely Glomus etunicatum, Glomus intraradices and Glomus veruciforme were used in this study. They have been exposed to UV-C (254 nm) light for 7 h (28 days, 15 min each day). We measured total proteins, sugars, chlorophyll a and b and carotenoids. Our study showed that UV-C radiation decreases chlorophylls, carotenoids and sugars contents. But this effect on total proteins content has not been significant. However, mycorrhizal fungi could increase all of these factors in comparison to non-mycorrhizal samples. Therefore, these fungi species can increase above growth factors of wheat plants, apparently.

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Samaneh Rahmatzadeh and Jalil Khara, 2007. Influence of Ultraviolet-C Radiation on Some Growth Parameters of Mycorrhizal Wheat Plants. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 10: 4275-4278.

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