Methyl jasmonate effects on sugarbeet root responses to postharvest dehydration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) roots are stored under conditions that cause roots to dehydrate, which increases postharvest losses. Although exogenous jasmonate applications can reduce drought stress in intact plants, their ability to alleviate the effects of dehydration in postharvest sugarbeet roots or other stored plant products is unknown. Research was conducted to determine whether jasmonate treatment could mitigate physiological responses to dehydration in postharvest sugarbeet roots.

Methods

Freshly harvested sugarbeet roots were treated with 10 µM methyl jasmonate (MeJA) or water and stored under dehydrating and non-dehydrating storage conditions. Changes in fresh weight, respiration rate, wound healing, leaf regrowth, and proline metabolism of treate

SUBMITTER: Finger FL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8214845 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature