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Effect of Photoperiod Duration on Efficiency of Low-Temperature Hardening of Arabidopsis thaliana Heynh. (L.)

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The effect of photoperiod duration on efficiency of low-temperature hardening was investigated in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. plants, ecotype Col-0. Six-week-old plants were exposed to cold acclimation at a temperature of 2°С during 1‒5 days at photoperiods of 0, 8, and 16 h (illuminance of 200 µmol/(m2 s)). According to survival data and leakage of electrolytes after test freezing (–6°C, 24 h), the plants exposed to cold acclimation in the dark did not show frost resistance. The plants hardened in the light (irrespective of the length of photoperiod) considerably improved their frost resistance by the end of the cold-acclimation period. Net photosynthesis/dark respiration ratio in these plants was almost two times greater than in control material (without hardening). The plants exposed to a 16-h-long photoperiod surpassed the type of treatment with 8-h-long illumination both in the highest levels of accumulation of sugars (by almost 40%) and in the rate of reaching these levels in daily dynamics of hardening. It was shown that MDA content transiently rose during the first 24 h of hardening in the light and did not change in the dark, which may point to a signal role of lipid peroxidation products upon cold acclimation. It was discovered that the photoperiod duration affected the formation rate of frost resistance in A. thaliana plants. A more prolonged operation of A. thaliana’s photosynthetic apparatus at 16-h-long photoperiod considerably accelerated the accumulation of sugars upon cold acclimation and, therefore, hastened development of frost resistance as compared with an 8-h-long photoperiod. It was concluded that rapid formation of frost resistance in A. thaliana requires a combination of low above-zero temperature and 16-h-long photoperiod.

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This work was performed within the framework of a state assignment given by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (project no. 122042700044-6).

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Abbreviations: (ETC) electron transport chain, (LPO) lipid peroxidation, (MDA) malonic dialdehyde.

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Popov, V.N., Deryabin, A.N. Effect of Photoperiod Duration on Efficiency of Low-Temperature Hardening of Arabidopsis thaliana Heynh. (L.). Russ J Plant Physiol 70, 56 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1021443722603093

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