Waterlogging effects upon the phenological phases of common bean cultivar BRSMG-Uai

Efeitos do alagamento nas fases fenológicas da cultivar de feijão comum BRSMG-Uai

ABSTRACT

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is an important source of protein and carbohydrates, besides being rich in several mineral nutrients. In a flooding situation, the low availability of oxygen may result in hypoxia or anoxia condition. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the responses of the common bean cultivar BRSMG-Uai subjected to hypoxia in different phenological phases, analyzing its responses in terms of growth, productivity, carbon and nitrogen metabolism. Thus, seeds of common beans were germinated and when the seedling reached growth stage V1, they were transferred to plastic boxes containing 40L of nutritive solution with steady aeration. Distinct series of plants were exposed to air-restriction on their roots for nine days, in three different phenological phases V3/V4, R6 and R7. Samples were collected for biochemical and growth analyses in a completely random design (n=6). The plants subjected to low availability of oxygen presented a reduction in bean number, displaying the greatest loss in productivity in V3/V4, conferring the highest sensitivity to hypoxia in this phase. On the other hand, there was an increase in sugar concentration in leaves, and it was also possible to observe an increase in hydrogen peroxide in leaves and roots, concomitant with a decrease in superoxide dismutase activity in all phenological phases. There was also an increase in ascorbate peroxidase activity in roots in R6, as well as in nitrate reductase activity. We conclude that the cultivar BRSMG-Uai presents sensitivity to low oxygen availability, and the phenological phaseV3/V4 is the most critical for it.

Index terms:
Hypoxia; Phaseolus vulgaris L.; nitrogen metabolism.

RESUMO

O feijão comum (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) é uma leguminosa importante por ser fonte de proteína, carboidratos e rico em vários minerais. Em situação de alagamento, a disponibilidade de oxigênio pode proporcionar uma condição de anoxia ou hipóxia. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar o comportamento da cultivar BRSMG-Uai submetida a hipóxia em diferentes fases fenológicas, analisando as respostas em relação ao crescimento e produção, metabolismo de carboidratos e assimilação de nitrato. Desta maneira, sementes de feijão comum foram semeadas e ao atingirem o estádio de desenvolvimento V1 foram transferidas para recipientes contendo 40L de solução nutritiva e aeração constante. As plantas foram expostas a condição de falta de aeração por 9 dias, em três diferentes fases fenológicas. Foram consideradas as fases fenológicas V3/V4, R6 e R7. Após as coletas foram realizadas análises bioquímicas e de crescimento, com delineamento inteiramente casualizado (n=6). Plantas submetidas a baixa disponibilidade de oxigênio apresentaram redução no número de grãos, sendo em V3/V4 a maior perda em produção conferindo maior sensibilidade a hipóxia nesta fase. Em contrapartida, ocorreu aumento na concentração de açucares nas folhas. Foi possível observar nas folhas e raízes, aumento no conteúdo de peróxido de hidrogênio, redução da atividade da enzima dismutase do superóxido nas fases fenológicas V3/V4, R6 e R7, aumento da atividade da enzima peroxidase do ascorbato nas raízes em R6 e da atividade da enzima redutase do nitrato. Conclui-se que a cultivar BRSMG-Uai apresentou sensibilidade a baixa disponibilidade de oxigênio, e que a fase fenológica V3/V4 é a mais crítica.

Termos para indexação:
Hipóxia; Phaseolus vulgaris L.; metabolismo de nitrogênio.

INTRODUCTION

Global climate changes tend to worsen problems related to rain patterns in many regions in the world and this may probably lead to increase floods and soil waterlogging (Debortoli, 2017; Hirabayashi et al., 2013). The flooding, caused by either too much rain or even irrigation in poorly drained soils, is one of the abiotic stresses that most affect crop productivity (Choudhury et al., 2013), once induces lower oxygen availability to the radicular system. Based on the height of the water column, the inundation may be classified as (i) waterlogging, when water covers only the roots or (ii) flooding, when the water covers partially or completely the shoot (Sasidharan et al., 2017). The aerobic respiration of plants and microorganisms in such condition additionally reduces the soil oxygen concentration, leading to hypoxia (low oxygen concentration < 21%) or, in more extreme conditions, anoxia (absence of oxygen) (Lee et al., 2011; Sasidharan et al., 2017).

Soil waterlogging causes a hypoxic environment that will eventually affect the plant metabolism through changes in parameters related to photosynthesis, energy production, synthesis and transport of ions and molecules, that is, activities that require metabolic energy. Photosynthesis inhibition happens mainly by reducing the CO₂ absorption, due to stomatal closure, limiting the Calvin cycle and mitochondrial ATP production (Zhang et al., 2016). Meanwhile, in the roots, there is also a lower cell energy production, restricting the absorption of water and nutrients; furthermore, the inhibition of aerobic respiration results in an increase of lactate and ethanol in the cell cytosol (Perez-Jimenez, 2017; Dumont; Rivoval, 2019). In this case, the enzyme nitrate reductase (NR), which is in charge of reducing nitrate into nitrite, may become an alternative pathway to act in the regeneration of the reducing power NAD⁺ (Fukao et al., 2019).

Besides those damages, there is an increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation, indicating oxidative damage that directly affects the maintenance of cell homeostasis, causing damages to proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) (Lal et al., 2019). Among the most important ROS stand out the superoxide anion (O₂ ^-), hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂), and the hydroxyl radical (OH^-) that in conditions of hypoxia accumulates in the leaves along with an increase in malondialdehyde (MDA) (Fukao et al., 2019). Those situations demand that the plant resort to biochemical and morphological changes to assure their survival. In this case, one of the strategies is to minimize the damages caused by the excess of those free radicals by producing redox enzymes that scavenge the ROS. Superoxide dismutase (SOD), ascorbate peroxidase (APX) and catalase (CAT) outstand among those enzymes (Dumont; Rivoval, 2019).

The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a very important culture for Brazilians nutrition since it is an important source of proteins, carbohydrates and naturally rich in mineral nutrients (Carbonell et al., 2014). The average productivity and consumption are 1.6 t ha^-1 and 16 kg person^-1 year^-1 respectively, and its cultivation occurs in all regions of the country, in different times of the year, using different planting systems, being especially cultivated by family farming (Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento - CONAB, 2019). Lately, the culture has become more visible among the great grain farmers of the country that make use of advanced technology such as phytosanitary control, mechanical harvest and irrigation. However, the production is still unstable due to various factors, including environmental stresses (Carbonell et al., 2014; Gonçalves et al., 2019). The characterization of different varieties becomes important to identify materials less susceptible to stressful conditions, which is critical to food security.

Regarding the Brazilian varieties, there are few studies about the influence of flooding in different phenological phases of the common bean. The damages caused by hypoxia may vary according to the phenological stages in which the plants are going through during the interaction with the stress factor.

The use of soils prone to waterlogging with species of economic importance depends on the identification of plants that can survive under conditions of low availability of soil oxygen as well as present good productivity for the farmer to make a profit. In recent years, several cultivars have been recommended by the breeding programs, the result of a joint effort by Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), state research institutions, universities, cooperatives, private companies and rural producers, which developed new cultivars with “carioca” type, combining good productivity and resistance to stresses and diseases (Carbonell et al., 2014).

Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the responses of the common bean cultivar BRSMG-Uai when submitted to hypoxia in different phenological phases of its cycle. Considering that it is a relatively new cultivar, there are no studies on the physiological aspects under stressful environmental conditions, so we evaluated responses concerning gas exchange, carbohydrate metabolism, antioxidant metabolism, nitrate assimilation, growth and production.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Cultivation of plants and experiment conduction

The experiment was conducted at the University of Lavras (UFLA), in Lavras, Brazil (21°14’43 S and 44º59> W, 920 m altitude). Seeds of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), cultivar BRSMG-Uai, used for the experiment were developed by UFLA in association with University Federal of Viçosa (UFV), Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMPRAPA - rice and bean) and Minas Gerais Agricultural Research Corporation (Epamig). The cultivar is characterized as the carioca type, displaying erect architecture, with an indeterminate growth habit and life cycle of 80-90 days (Ramalho et al., 2016).

The seeds were sown in germination trays filled with vermiculite and sand (1:1). After eleven days, when the seedlings were in the V1 development stage (cotyledons at ground level), they were selected for uniformity in size and vigor. Afterward, they were transferred to polypropylene containers containing 40 L of nutrient solution (Hoagland; Arnon, 1950) and constant aeration. The common bean cultivar was placed in perforated styrofoam plates, being fixed by the hypocotyl of the seedlings so that only the root system was in contact with the nutrient solution (NS). The nutrient solution was changed weekly and the pH monitored daily, being adjusted to keep at pH 6.0 ± 0.5.

When they reached the phenological phase V3/V4 (between the first and third trifoliated leaves), R6 (the anthesis of the first flower) and R7 (the coming forth of the first pods), the plants were subjected to hypoxia for nine days, when the plants showed strong reduction in stomatal conductance and show wilted leaves. Therefore, the aeration of the containers was suspended from some plants while other plants were kept under aeration as control ones (Figure 1).

Figure 1:
Schematic representation of the experimental period.

The plant material was collected at the peak of stress (after nine days of induction) in each phenological phase, the aeration was restored and the remaining plant material was conducted until they completed their cultivation cycle to obtain the data for grain productivity (Figure 1).

The oxygen dissolved in the nutrient solution was quantified through titration based on the Winkler method with modifications (Pomeroy; Kirschman, 1945) in the Laboratory of Water Analysis (Laadeg, UFLA) to show the plants were under hypoxia. In the control containers, the oxygen was 7.6 mg L^-1, whereas in the treatment without aeration, 4.9 mg L^-1, that is, a reduction of 35% of available oxygen.

Biometrical analyses

The accumulation of biomass was determined by weighing the shoot and root dry matter after drying the plant material in a forced air oven kept at 65 ºC up to they presented constant mass. The number of leaves were assessed by directly counting them and the production components were assessed after the harvest and drying up of the pods by estimating the number of beans produced by plant and weight of 100 beans.

Gas exchange

Gas exchange was measured utilizing an infrared gas analyzer (IRGA - LI6400XT Portable Phostosynthesis System, LI-COR, Lincoln, USA) and taking the central leaflet of the most recently expanded trifoliated leaf of the plants. All the measurements were conducted in clear days, between 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. We evaluated net photosynthesis (A), stomatal conductance (gs) and transpiration (E) with a photosynthetic active radiation (PAR) of 1,200 μmol m^-2 s^-1 (Nascimento et al., 2016). The mean leaf temperature in three days of measurements was 29.6 ± 1.9 ºC, the relative humidity (RH) of the chamber was 49.6 ± 7.9% and the CO₂ partial pressure was 42 ± 7 Pa.

Quantification of carbohydrates

Carbohydrates were extracted from the shoot and root by homogenizing 0.2 g of dry matter, which was ground in a mill type Willey, with 5 mL of potassium phosphate buffer solution 100 mM at pH 7.0, followed by placing the samples in a double boiler for 30 minutes at 40 ºC. The homogenate was centrifugated at 5.000 g for 10 minutes, collecting the supernatant.

The quantification of total soluble sugars (TSS) was estimated using the anthrone reagent method (Dische, 1962) and the reducing sugars (RS), using the protocol described by Miller (1959) and the DNS method. For starch, the protocol utilized was the one described by Zanandrea et al. (2010); and for sucrose, the one described by Van Handel (1968).

Determination of antioxidant enzymatic activity

The enzymatic extract was obtained through method described by Biemelt, Keetman and Albrecht (1998). The collected supernatant were used in enzymatic analysis of catalase (CAT) according to Havir and McHale (1987), superoxide dismutase (SOD) by the protocol of Giannopolitis and Ries (1977) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) according to Nakano and Asada (1981).

Determination of hydrogen peroxide and malonaldehyde

Fresh leaves and roots (0.2 g) were macerated in liquid nitrogen with polyvinyl polypyrrolidone (PVPP), homogenized in 1.5 mL of 0.1% trichloroacetic acid (TCA) and centrifuged at 12,000 g for 15 minutes, at 4 ºC, collecting the supernatant. Lipidic peroxidation (MDA) was evaluated by quantification of reactive species of thiobarbituric acid, as described by Buege and Aust (1978). The content of H₂O₂ was determined according to Velikova, Yordanov and Edreva (2000). Quantification was based on the standard hydrogen peroxide curve, with known concentrations.

Determination of nitrate reductase activity

The enzymatic extract was obtained from the maceration of 1.0 g of fresh root mass in liquid nitrogen by adding 5 mL of extraction buffer containing 100 mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.5), 1 mM PMSF, EDTA 100 mM, 10% PVPP and 2 mM DTT. The extract was centrifuged at 13,000 g for 20 minutes at 4 ºC and the supernatant was collected for incubation. The activity of nitrate reductase (NR) was quantified utilizing the protocol described by Berges and Harrison (1995) with modifications.

Statistic analyses

The experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with three treatments and six replicates (two plants by replicate). The data were subjected to ANOVA using Scott-Knott test and the means were then compared using Fisher’s LSD at P<0.05 with the aid of the software SISVAR^® 5.6.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

For the best of our knowledge, there are no studies focused on the identification of the most critical period of common bean to low availability of oxygen (hypoxia) and there are no reports up to date for the cultivar BRSMG-Uai about its responses to hypoxia during its different phenological phases. In this work, the effect of hypoxia by suspension of aeration in the hydroponic cultivation was evaluated for this cultivar through variables that perform crucial roles in growth, grain production, carbohydrate metabolism, antioxidant metabolism and nitrate assimilation (NO₃ ^-).

Biometrical analyses performed in each phenological phase nine days after the aeration suspension allowed determining the performance of growth under low oxygen availability (Table 1). In general, the plants subjected to hypoxia suffered a reduction in the number of grains (NG) per plant (Figure 2), independently of the phenological phase in which the aeration was suspended. However, the greatest productivity loss was observed when the hypoxia happened during the V3/V4 stage with a reduction of nearly 83%, suggesting a higher sensitivity to maintain productivity when the plant is in the vegetative growth phase. So, if the hypoxia happens during the vegetative phase, it seems there is a reduction in the accumulation of necessary biomass for the plant growth and development.

Table 1:
Net photosynthesis (A), stomatal conductance (g _s ) and total dry matter (DM) of common bean cultivar BRSMG-Uai subjected to hypoxia in phenological phases V3/V4, R6 and R7.

Phenological phase	Treatment	A (μmol m2 s-1)	gs (mol m2 s-1)	DM (g)
V3/V4	Control	24.5A	0.595A	7.19A
	Hypoxy	7.3B	0.042B	4.94A
R6	Control	24.2A	0.599A	22.25A
	Hypoxy	4.5B	0.027B	16.90A
R7	Control	21.9A	0.485A	40.61A
	Hypoxy	4.1B	0.024B	36.49A

• Treatments with the same letter do not differ statistically by the Scott Knott test at 5% probability.

Figure 2:
Number of grains (NG) per plant of common bean cultivar BRSMG-Uai when grown under hypoxia during the phenological phases V3/V4, R6 and R7 for. The means (n=6) were tested by Fisher’s LSD at P<0.05.

Even though the lower yield had not happened as a consequence of the plant biomass reduction, the imposition of hypoxia occurred during the greatest growth rate of the culture, when the plants need normal conditions for oxygen availability (De San Celedonio; Abeledo; Miralles, 2018; Lake et al., 2019).

In the phenological phase V3/V4 of the common bean, the third trifoliate is completely expanded, and the beginning of plant branching that starts in this phase, depends on biosynthetic processes, which is the result of the incorporation of new biomass and macromolecules, which, by turn, depends on the assimilated carbon from photosynthesis. The photosynthesis reduction due to the oxygen deficiency in the radicular system, is a systemic response caused by the stomatal closure (Table 1), which led to a decrease in rubisco carboxylation (Velasco et al., 2019). This reduced stomatal conductance was probably caused by an increase in H₂O₂ content in roots (Figure 3B) that may inhibit the activity of aquaporins or water channel proteins, reducing hydraulic conductivity and affecting directly the stomatal conductance (Silva et al., 2015; Maurel et al., 2016).

Figure 3:
Content of hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) and malondialdehyde (MDA) in leaves (A and C) and roots (B and D) of common bean cultivar BRSMG-Uai subjected to hypoxia in the phenological phases V3/V4, R6 and R7. The means (n=6) were tested by Fisher’s LSD at P<0.05.

The content of starch (Figure 4A), TSS (Figure 4C), RS (Figure 4E) and sucrose (Figure 4G) in leaves increased under hypoxia in all phenological phases. However, it was expected a decline in the contents of starch, TSS and sucrose caused by the stimulation of glycolysis, as an attempt to supply the ATP demand for the plant, due to O₂ availability decrease. The accumulation of pyruvate (final product in the glycolytic via) may trigger the fermentative pathway, which is key to the regeneration of NAD⁺ utilized as a coenzyme in the glycolytic via. Thus, it is possible that the increase in nonstructural carbohydrates in V3/V4, which would beforehand attend the demands of vegetative growth, happens due to the restriction of assimilate translocation to the roots caused by lack of available O₂, which corroborates with the fact that there is no increase in carbohydrates in the roots (Figure 4B, D, F and H). Variations in the sugar content in leaves may still be attributed to different degrees of starch degradation, carbon allocation into plant biomass and the use of those carbohydrates in respiratory metabolism, depending on the plant age (Fukao et al., 2019).

Figure 4:
Concentration of starch, total soluble sugars (TSS), reducing sugars (RS) and sucrose in leaves (A, C, E and G) and roots (B, D, F and H) of the common bean cultivar BRSMG-Uai subjected to hypoxia in the phenological phases V3/V4, R6 and R7. The means (n=6) were tested by Fisher’s LSD at P<0.05.

It is important to consider that triggering the fermentative pathway for very long periods promotes the accumulation of toxic oxidative products, such as ethanol and ROS (Dumont; Rivoal, 2019) causing damage to the plants. The extend of the oxidative stress in plant tissues may be determined by quantifying de MDA that is an indicator of lipidic peroxidation. The activity of SOD in leaves presented a reduction in V3/V4 (Figure 5A), even with an increase in H₂O₂ (Figure 3A) and MDA (Figure 3C) in all phenological phases evaluated, indicating that H₂O₂ formation may have come from the photorespiratory via. In that via, glycolate is oxidized into glyoxylate and H₂O₂ by glycolate oxidase in the peroxisomes (Czarnocka; Karpiński, 2018).

Figure 5:
Activity of the enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) in leaves (A, C and E) and roots (B, D and F) of common bean cultivar BRSMG-Uai subjected to hypoxia in the phenological phases V3/V4, R6 and R7. The means (n=6) were tested by Fisher’s LSD at P<0.05.

Hydrogen peroxide is a ROS moderately reactive, whose small size allows it to go through cell membranes and migrate to different compartments, spreading the damage and acting as a signal or messenger to stress conditions (Singh, et al., 2016; Karuppanapandian et al., 2011). In optimal physiological conditions, there is a balance between H₂O₂ production and antioxidant enzymatic activity, nonetheless, in this study, the exposition of plants to hypoxia resulted in a lower activity of the enzyme CAT in the roots (Figure 5D) in V3/V4 and R6. Nevertheless, in leaves, after the suspension of aeration, the antioxidant system was not efficient enough to avoid the increase of lipidic peroxidation (Figure 3C), in none of the phenological phases evaluated.

The activity of NR (Figure 6) in the roots was 42% greater under hypoxia in V3/V4, when compared to control plants. The increase in this enzyme activity may be related to the regeneration of the electron carrier NAD⁺ in the cytosol, as an alternative to fermentative pathways since the plant will accumulate less toxic compounds in the cells (De Carvalho et al., 2015). It occurs under lower competition demand for that reducing power with the enzymes lactate dehydrogenase and alcohol dehydrogenase, contributing, therefore, to a higher use and maintenance of glycolysis (Fukao et al., 2019). Moreover, NR contributes to an increase in nitrogen compounds. Although there was a reduction of amino acid in V3/V4 in roots, a large content of proteins in leaves (Figure 7) also suggests that these molecules may have been remobilized to that organ causing, therefore, an increase in protein synthesis in the shoot.

Figure 6:
Nitrate reductase activity in roots of common bean cultivar BRSMG-Uai subjected to hypoxia in the phenological phases V3/V4, R6 and R7. The means (n=6) were tested by Fisher’s LSD at P<0.05.

Figure 7:
Content of amino acids and proteins in leaves (A and C) and roots (B and D) of common bean cultivar BRSMG-Uai subjected to hypoxia in phenological phases V3/V4, R6 and R7. The means (n=6) were tested by Fisher’s LSD at P<0.05.

CONCLUSIONS

The cultivar BRSMG-Uai presented high sensibility to low O₂ availability in the root system. Bean yield is affected in an independent manner of phenology when submitted to hypoxia, however, considering the phenological phases evaluated, V3/V4 is the most critical to productivity. Nitrate reductase enzyme displayed high activity in roots under hypoxia in the phenological phase V3/V4, contributing to an increase of synthesis of nitrogen compounds. The antioxidant system was not efficient enough to prevent increases in lipid peroxidation in any of the evaluated phenological phases.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors would like to thank the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, Financial Code - 001), the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) for having financed part of the project.

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Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  25 Sept 2020
• Date of issue
  2020

History

• Received
  14 Apr 2020
• Accepted
  31 Aug 2020