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Impact of natural plant growth-stimulating products on RubisCO gene expression, secondary metabolites, and antioxidant activities in Calendula officinalis plants

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Horticulture Sciences

Abstract

Honey, pomegranate juice, and lemon juice are natural plant growth bio-stimulators with many bioactive substances that play essential roles in many plants' physio-biochemical processes, and development. The objectives of this research were to explore how foliar spraying with a 5% or 10% diluted pomegranate juice solution (DPJS), diluted lemon juice solution (DLJS), or diluted honey solution (DBHS), versus a control (distilled water; D-H2O), positively influenced the leaf integrity, RubisCO gene expression, secondary metabolites, and antioxidant activities in Calendula officinalis plants. Foliar spraying with 5% or 10% individually from each DPJS, DLJS, or BHS significantly increased leaf SPAD index, relative water content (RWC), membrane stability index (MSI), total soluble (TS) sugar and K+ contents, RubisCO content and activity, and RubisCO gene expression. Also, secondary metabolite and antioxidant capacity (total flavonoid, anthocyanin, proline, ascorbate, and glutathione contents) were significantly increased by foliar spraying of all the above-mentioned treatments. The second best treatment was 5%-DPJS or 10%-BHS, both of which were preceded by 5%-BHS as the best treatment, which the research results recommended for field application to obtain the best pharmaceutical contents from Calendula officinalis.

DOI

10.21608/fjard.2024.330027.1080

Keywords

Natural plant growth biostimulators, antioxidants, Phenolics, Flavonoids, Anthocyanins

Authors

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

Habib

MiddleName

S. M.

Affiliation

Horticulture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, Fayoum 63514, Egypt

Email

ms2266@fayoum.edu.eg

City

Fayoum

Orcid

-

First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Rady

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Botany Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, Fayoum 63514, Egypt

Email

mmr02@fayoum.edu.eg

City

Fayoum

Orcid

0000-0001-8254-5263

First Name

Ibrahim

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

A. A.

Affiliation

Botany Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, Fayoum 63514, Egypt

Email

iaa04@fayoum.edu.eg

City

Fayoum

Orcid

-

First Name

Alaa

Last Name

Abou-Sreea

MiddleName

I. B.

Affiliation

Horticulture Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University, Fayoum 63514, Egypt

Email

aib00@fayoum.edu.eg

City

fayoum

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Volume

38

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

51583

Issue Date

2024-11-01

Receive Date

2024-10-22

Publish Date

2024-11-01

Page Start

687

Page End

704

Print ISSN

1110-7790

Online ISSN

2805-2528

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https://fjard.journals.ekb.eg/article_391818.html

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Research articles.

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1,920

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Publication Title

Fayoum Journal of Agricultural Research and Development

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https://fjard.journals.ekb.eg/

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Impact of natural plant growth-stimulating products on RubisCO gene expression, secondary metabolites, and antioxidant activities in Calendula officinalis plants

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Created At

28 Dec 2024