PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Xiao-Ping, LI
AU  - ONG, Bee-Lian
TI  - Tolerance of gametophytes of Acrostichum aureum (L.) to salinity and water stress
DP  - 1997 Jan 1
TA  - Photosynthetica
PG  - 21--30
VI  - 34
IP  - 11
AID - 10.1023/A:1006851431516
IS  - 03003604
AB  - Tolerance of gametophytes of Acrostichum aureum to NaCl and dehydration was investigated under controlled conditions following the changes in chlorophyll fluorescence parameters (Fv/Fm, qP, qN). Salt tolerance was increased by growing gametophytes in low concentrations of NaCl. However, such treatment could not increase the tolerance of gametophytes to dehydration. Under water stress, a decrease in photochemical quenching (qP) was accompanied by an increase in non-photochemical quenching (qN). Under salt stress, qP also decreased, but qN did not change significantly in salt-hardened gametophytes.