418383

Soaking seeds in biostimulants restores germination, growth, and physiology of Glycine max seedlings affected by salt stress

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Last updated: 29 Mar 2025

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Plant Sciences

Abstract

The main approach to control stressed crops is using plant biostimulants, such as diluted lemon fruit juice (DLFJ) and bee honey (DBH), which promote plant growth and physiology. This study investigated the potential promotive effects of soaking Glycine max seeds in DLFJ or DBH under normal conditions (NCs) or salt stress conditions (SSCs) on seed germination percentage (GP), seedling growth, and physiology. The result indicated that the ideal requirement for seed soaking was to soak the seeds for 8 h in 4% DLFJ or 6% DBH to obtain optimal results, with 6% DBH outperforming 4% DLFJ. The SSCs (irrigation with saline water; EC = 8.60 dS m–1) markedly reduced seed PG, seedling fresh and dry weights, root activity, photosynthetic efficiency (total chlorophyll content, PSII Fv/Fm, PSII PIABS), relative water content, and membrane stability index compared with the NCs (irrigation with normal water; EC = 1.60 dS m–1). When soybean seedlings were irrigated with normal water or saline water, soaking seeds in 4% DLFJ or 6% DBH significantly increased the above parameters compared to controls (soaking seeds in distilled water). The responses of the above parameters were generally more pronounced under SSCs than under NCs and were typically more pronounced with 6% DBH treatment than with 4% DLFJ treatment. In conclusion, 6% DBH is a natural multi-biostimulator that is significantly better than DLFJ in reducing the effects of salt stress on G. max seedlings.

DOI

10.21608/fjard.2025.340629.1088

Keywords

biostimulators, Soybeans, salinity, Growth, physiology

Authors

First Name

Nada

Last Name

Nady

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

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

Email

nm1576@fayoum.edu.eg

City

Fayoum

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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

Volume

39

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

54502

Issue Date

2025-01-01

Receive Date

2024-12-13

Publish Date

2025-01-01

Page Start

181

Page End

197

Print ISSN

1110-7790

Online ISSN

2805-2528

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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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Soaking seeds in biostimulants restores germination, growth, and physiology of Glycine max seedlings affected by salt stress

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29 Mar 2025