To find effective ways to detect drought stress before plants undergo damage due to water deficiency, 3-week-old Arabidopsis thaliana(Col-0) seedlings had been exposed to drought stress for 10 days. And biomass, spectral reflectance, chlorophyll fluor...
To find effective ways to detect drought stress before plants undergo damage due to water deficiency, 3-week-old Arabidopsis thaliana(Col-0) seedlings had been exposed to drought stress for 10 days. And biomass, spectral reflectance, chlorophyll fluorescence and pigment measured. Through the transpiration measurement, we were able to detect droughts on the third day and osmotic pressure was more than 0.4osmol.kg¹ from the 4th day of drought. The PRI was also detectable on the 4th day, carotenoid and chlorophyll a from the 5th day, the detection was possible with the difference from the control group. In the case of proline, RWC and 553nm wavelength of leaves, the difference was observed from the 6th day. The reflectance value at 960nm wavelength detected drought from the 7th day. Through the measurement of chlorophyll fluorescence, stress was detected on the 8th day. When water can not be supplied in times of drought, the results of exposure to drought after exogenous citric acid in Col-0. The resistance of the 100mM treatment group was most improved and the recovery was also rapid. These results suggest that transpiration, osmolality, PRI be more faster in detecting drought stress than chlorophyll fluorescence which is commonly used in many stress indicators and spectral reflectance value is easy to measure in the field and to use because it is less time consuming. It is shown that exogenous citric acid with appropriate concentration can improve drought tolerance.