Nitrate Reductase and Glutamine Synthetase Enzyme Activities and Chlorophyll in Sorghum Leaves (Sorghum bicolor) in Response to Organic Fertilization

Nitrate Reductase and Glutamine Synthetase Enzyme Activities and Chlorophyll in Sorghum Leaves (Sorghum bicolor) in Response to Organic Fertilization

Sorghum is a plant that mainly requires chemical nitrogen fertilization. There are organic fertilizers that can provide nutrients to plants with great benefits to the soil, such as chicken manure. To determine the influence of organic fertilization on nitrate reductase (NR), glutamine synthetase (GS...

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Published in:International Journal of Plant Biology Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 827 - 836
Main Authors: Ericka Nieves-Silva, Engelberto Sandoval-Castro, Adriana Delgado-Alvarado, María D. Castañeda-Antonio, Arturo Huerta-De la Peña
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 01-08-2024
Subjects:
chicken manure
chlorophyll
enzymatic activity
glutamine synthetase
nitrate reductase
nutrition
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Summary:Sorghum is a plant that mainly requires chemical nitrogen fertilization. There are organic fertilizers that can provide nutrients to plants with great benefits to the soil, such as chicken manure. To determine the influence of organic fertilization on nitrate reductase (NR), glutamine synthetase (GS), and the amount of chlorophyll, sorghum plants were grown using the following four treatments: soil (T1), soil + chicken manure 100 kg ha−1 of nitrogen (N) (T2), soil + chicken manure 200 kg ha−1 N (T3), and soil + ammonium sulfate 100 kg ha−1 N (T4). Leaves were sampled in the vegetative stage (VS), the reproductive stage (RS), and the maturation stage (MS). The highest NR activity occurred in plants with T2 and T3 in the VS. The highest GS activity was in T3 and T4 in the RS. The amount of chlorophyll a was the same in all phenological stages. However, the amount of chlorophyll b was influenced by the type of fertilization at different phenological stages. Organic fertilizers (OF) produced the highest NR activity. On the other hand, GS activity was higher with chemical fertilization (T4), which was equal to the second dose of organic fertilization (T3). Finally, chlorophyll a and b were influenced by both types of fertilization, and was different from T1.
ISSN:2037-0164
DOI:10.3390/ijpb15030059