Photosynthetica 2018, 56(3):962-970 | DOI: 10.1007/s11099-017-0745-9

Effects of humic acid on photosynthetic efficiency of rapeseed plants growing under different watering conditions

R. Lotfi1, H. M. Kalaji2,*, G. R. Valizadeh1, E. Khalilvand Behrozyar3, A. Hemati4, P. Gharavi-Kochebagh5, A. Ghassemi3
1 Dryland Agricultural Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education & Extension Organization (AREEO), Maragheh, Iran
2 Institute of Technology and Life Sciences (ITP), Raszyn, Poland
3 Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
4 Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
5 Department of Plant Eco-physiology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Water is a limited resource and is likely to become even more restricted with climate change. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of humic acid (HA) applications on photosynthesis efficiency of rapeseed plants under different watering conditions. Water stress strongly increased electron transport flux, probability that trapped excitation can move an electron into the electron transport chain beyond QA, and quantum yield of reduction of end electron acceptors at the PSI acceptor side. Application of HA decreased the values of these parameters to be similar to those of non-stress conditions. We found that, the application of HA improved plants net photosynthesis under water stress via increasing the rate of gas exchange and electron transport flux in plants.

Additional key words: chlorophyll a fluorescence; photosynthesis; water stress

Received: July 2, 2016; Accepted: May 15, 2017; Prepublished online: September 1, 2018; Published: August 1, 2018  Show citation

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Lotfi, R., Kalaji, H.M., Valizadeh, G.R., Khalilvand Behrozyar, E., Hemati, A., Gharavi-Kochebagh, P., & Ghassemi, A. (2018). Effects of humic acid on photosynthetic efficiency of rapeseed plants growing under different watering conditions. Photosynthetica, 56(3), 962-970. doi: 10.1007/s11099-017-0745-9
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