Non-enzymatic Antioxidant Responses of Maize Varieties to Water Stress

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AN ORAL PRESENTATION
ON
NON-ENZYMATIC ANTIOXIDANT RESPONSES OF
LANDRACES AND IMPROVED DROUGHT TOLERANT
MAIZE (
Zea mays
 L.) VARIETIES TO WATER STRESS
AT THE 38
TH
 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF
BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (NSBMB
SOKOTO 2021)
 
BY
YAHAYA ABUBAKAR MOHAMMED
 
INTRODUCTION
 
Maize:
 a cereal crop with enormous importance that cannot be over
emphasized;
Food for humans
Feeds for livestock
Several industrial processes
Challenges facing maize production
:
Biotic factors, e.g., the use of poor quality seeds, and lack of
infrastructures, e.t.c.
Abiotic factors include; drought, pests, heavy metal toxicity, high
salinity, and extremes temperatures e.t. c.
 
INTRODUCTION CONT’D
 
Drought
 is the largest yield reducing abiotic factor (Foley and
Jonathon, 2019).
Losses of maize yield to drought is about 120 million tones of grain
worth 36 million USD (Foley and Jonathon, 2019).
Drought causes oxidative stress to plants as a results of increase in the
formation of  reactive oxygen species (ROS).
Excess 
ROS
 can damage cellular components such as proteins,
metabolic enzymes, DNA, and lipids, ultimately resulting in cell’s
death (Foyer & Noctor, 2012)
.
 
INTRODUCTION CONT’D
 
Non enzymatic antioxidants
:
Ascorbic acid, α-tocopherol, glutathione, carotenoids, and flavonoids
provides an efficient protection against the lethal effects of ROS to
plants (Shakeel 
et al
., 2017).
The ability to scavenge free radicals and maintain the integrity of the
cell membrane under oxidative stress, is correlated to drought
tolerance in plants (Shakeel 
et al
., 2017).
Identification of plants with tolerance to abiotic stresses, is a
prerequisite to marker assisted selective breeding (MASB) of stress
resistant crop varieties
.
 
INTRODUCTION CONT’D
 
This can effectively be achieved through exploiting genetic resources
with high potentials for stress adaptive traits such as crop landraces.
Crop landraces  have historical origin, distinct identity, genetically
diverse, and locally adapted to a given set of environmental
conditions (Camacho Villa 
et al
., 2005).
Availability of stress tolerant varieties of crops in the face of global
warming and climate change, can accelerate meeting up with
sustainable development goals of eradicating poverty and ensuring
global food security.
 
STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH
PROBLEM
 
Drought has been implicated as one of the major causes of reduced
maize production and food insecurity across the globe, particularly in
sub-Saharan Africa, where agricultural activities are majorly rain fed
(Daryanto et al., 2016).
Crop landraces have the potential to play a critical role in climate
change adaptations, however, breeders interested in stress tolerant
traits tend to concentrate on improved germplasms (Daryanto 
et al
.,
2016).
The consequence is loss of genetic variability, with only about 5 % of
maize germplasm in commercial use (Daryanto 
et al
., 2016)
 
JUSTIFICATION FOR THE STUDY
 
Unlike high yielding improved varieties, crop landraces are endowed
with tremendous genetic variability, and therefore serves as important
genetic resources for breeding useful agronomic traits (Daryanto 
et
al
., 2016).
The recent concern on the biosafety of genetically modified organisms
(GMOs) has necessitated the use of safer and effective alternative
methods of crop genetic improvement (Charles 
et al
., 2019).
Therefore, biochemical parameters obtained in response to water
deficit by maize, when tightly linked to gene of interest, can assist
breeders in the selection of maize cultivars with high yield and
stability under drought conditions (Charles 
et al
., 2019)
.
 
AIM AND OBJECTIVES
 
The aim of the study is;
To determine the non-enzymatic antioxidant responses of landraces
and improved drought tolerant variety of maize to different levels of
water stress.
The objectives of this study were
:
To determine the ascorbic acid contents of both varieties in response
to water stress
To determine the 
β
- carotene contents of both varieties in response to water
stress
To determine the flavonoids contents of both varieties subjected to
water stress
 
AIM AND OBJECTIVES CONT’D
 
To determine the lipid Peroxidation values of both varieties in
response to water stress in order to ascertain the extent of oxidative
damage to cell membranes.
 
MATERIALS AND METHODS
 
Materials
Sample Collection
Landraces (TZM 1422 and TZM 219) and improved (Sammaz 40) varieties
of maize seed were obtained from Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR)
A.B.U. Zaria, and from International Institute for Tropical Agriculture
(IITA), Ibadan.
Equipment and Apparatus used
Screen House, Ceramic Mortar and Pestle, Centrifuge, Hot water bath,
Freezer, and UV- spectrophotometer.
Chemicals and Reagents
All chemicals and reagents were of analytical grades
.
 
 
MATERIALS AND METHODS CONT’D
 
Methods
Soil sampling, soil analysis, and soil sterilization
Determination of soil water-field capacity
Water field capacity of the soil was determined gravimetrically using
the water percentage – based estimation model of Mbagwu and Mbah
(1998).
      FC= 0.79 (SP) 
˗
 6.22 (r = 0.972).
Treatment and experimental design
The experiment was carried out in a completely randomize design
(CRD). Samples were divided into 3 groups containing 3 replicates.
Treatments were given as T1 (100 % FC), T2 (50 % FC), and T3 (25 %
FC).
 
MATERIALS AND METHODS CONT’D
 
Determination of ascorbic acid
Ascorbic acid was determined by the indophenols method as described
by (AOAC, 1994). Fresh leaves (1 g) from the different levels of water
regime treatments at day 1, 15 and 30 were extracted in oxalic acid
and titrated against the dye.
 Amount of ascorbic acid/100g sample = 0.5mg/V
1
 ml x V
2
/5ml x
2ml/Wt. of sample x100
Determination of β- carotene
Beta carotene was determined using the acetone extraction method
(Tretykov 
et al
., 1990), at day 1, 15 and 30 of the experimental
period. 0.5g of fresh samples were extracted with acetone and the
absorbance read in spectrophotometer at 633nm, 644nm and
452.5nm.
 
MATERIALS AND METHODS CONT’D
 
Determination lipid peroxidation
Lipid peroxidation was determined using thiobarbituric acid reactive
substances (TBARS) concentration as described by Carmak and Host,
1991. The concentration of TBARS was calculated using the absorption
coefficient, 155Mm
-1
 Cm
-1
 (Carmak and Host, 1991).
Determination of flavonoids
The flavonoid contents of the extracts were measured as per the
Dowd method (1994). An aliquot of 1 ml of extract solution (200
µg/ml) were mixed with 0.2 ml of 10% (w/v) AlCl3 solution in
methanol, 0.2 mL (1M) potassium acetate and 5.6 ml distilled water
The mixture was incubated and absorbance taken at 415 nm. Results
were expressed as mg/g of quercetin equivalents per gram (mg QE/g)
of fresh extract.
 
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
 
ANOVA and Duncan’s multiple range test at P < 0.05 were used to
analyzed the relationship between the amount of parameters, and
increase in the severity of the stress imposed throughout the
experimental duration.
 
RESULTS
 
Table 1
: 
Ascorbic acid contents (mg /100 g FW) of landraces (TZM 1422 and TZM 219) and improved drought tolerant
(Sammaz 40) varieties of maize subjected to different levels of water stress.
 
Values are presented in means± standard error of three replicates.
Values with the same superscript alphabets on the same column are not significantly different at p> 0.05
Key: T1= 100% WC, T2= 50% WC, T3= 25% WC
 
RESULTS CONT’D
 
Table 2: 
β-carotene contents (mg /100g FW) of landraces (TZM 1422 and TZM 219) and improved drought
tolerant (Sam 40) variety of maize subjected to different levels of water stress.
 
Values are presented in means± standard error of three replicates.
Values with the same superscript alphabets on the same column are not significantly different at p> 0.05. Key: T1= 100% WC,
T2= 50% WC, T3= 25% WC
 
     RESULTS CONT’D
 
Table 3
: Flavonoids contents (mgQE/g FW) of landraces (TZM 1422 and TZM 219) and improved drought tolerant
(Sam 40) varieties of maize subjected to different levels of water stress.
 
Values are presented in means± standard error of three replicates.
Values with the same superscript alphabets on the same column are not significantly different at p> 0.05. Key: T1= 100% WC,
T2= 50% WC, T3= 25% WC
 
RESULTS CONT’D
 
Table 4
: Lipid peroxidation values (nmol/g fw) of landraces (TZM 1422 and TZM 219) and improved drought tolerant (Sam
40) varieties of maize subjected to different levels of water stress
 
Values are presented in means± standard error of three replicates.
Values with the same superscript alphabets on the same column are not significantly different at p> 0.05. Key: T1= 100%
WC, T2= 50% WC, T3= 25% WC
 
CONCLUSION
 
In conclusion, this study shows that the landraces have higher
contents of ascorbic acid, β-carotene, flavonoids, and low value of
lipid peroxidation in response to different levels of water stress.
The higher contents of these metabolites is an indication of good
antioxidant activity, while the lower lipid peroxidation value is a
reflection of good membrane integrity in the face of oxidative stress.
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Introduction of maize as a crucial crop facing challenges from both biotic and abiotic factors like drought, leading to oxidative stress. Non-enzymatic antioxidants play a key role in combating reactive oxygen species (ROS) caused by drought, with crop landraces showing potential in stress adaptation. Addressing the research problem of reduced maize production due to drought, emphasizing the importance of genetic variability in stress-tolerant crop varieties for sustainable development goals.


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  1. A N OR A L PRE SE N TA TION ON N ON -E N ZYM A TIC A N TIOXID A N T RE SPON SE S OF L A N D R A C E S A N D IM PRO VE D D ROU G H T TOL E R A N T M A IZE (Zea m aysL .) V A R IE TIE S TO W A TE R STRE SS A T TH E 38THA N N U A L C ON FE RE N C E OF B IOC H E M ISTRY A N D M OL E C U L A R B IOL OG Y (N SB M B SOK OTO 2021) B Y YA H A YA A B U B A K A R M OH A M M E D

  2. IN TROD U C TION Maize: a cereal crop with enormous importance that cannot be over emphasized; Food for humans Feeds for livestock Several industrial processes Challenges facing maize production: Biotic factors, e.g., the use of poor quality seeds, and lack of infrastructures, e.t.c. Abiotic factors include; drought, pests, heavy metal toxicity, high salinity, and extremes temperatures e.t. c.

  3. IN TROD U C TION C ON TD Drought is the largest yield reducing abiotic factor (Foley and Jonathon, 2019). Losses of maize yield to drought is about 120 million tones of grain worth 36 million USD (Foley and Jonathon, 2019). Drought causes oxidative stress to plants as a results of increase in the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Excess ROS can damage cellular components such as proteins, metabolic enzymes, DNA, and lipids, ultimately resulting in cell s death (Foyer & Noctor, 2012).

  4. IN TROD U C TION C ON TD Non enzymatic antioxidants: Ascorbic acid, -tocopherol, glutathione, carotenoids, and flavonoids provides an efficient protection against the lethal effects of ROS to plants (Shakeel et al., 2017). The ability to scavenge free radicals and maintain the integrity of the cell membrane under oxidative stress, is correlated to drought tolerance in plants (Shakeel et al., 2017). Identification of plants with tolerance to abiotic stresses, is a prerequisite to marker assisted selective breeding (MASB) of stress resistant crop varieties.

  5. IN TROD U C TION C ON TD This can effectively be achieved through exploiting genetic resources with high potentials for stress adaptive traits such as crop landraces. Crop landraces diverse, and locally adapted to a given set of environmental conditions (Camacho Villa et al., 2005). have historical origin, distinct identity, genetically Availability of stress tolerant varieties of crops in the face of global warming and climate change, can accelerate meeting up with sustainable development goals of eradicating poverty and ensuring global food security.

  6. STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM Drought has been implicated as one of the major causes of reduced maize production and food insecurity across the globe, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where agricultural activities are majorly rain fed (Daryanto et al., 2016). Crop landraces have the potential to play a critical role in climate change adaptations, however, breeders interested in stress tolerant traits tend to concentrate on improved germplasms (Daryanto et al., 2016). The consequence is loss of genetic variability, with only about 5 % of maize germplasm in commercial use (Daryanto et al., 2016)

  7. JUSTIFICATION FOR THE STUDY Unlike high yielding improved varieties, crop landraces are endowed with tremendous genetic variability, and therefore serves as important genetic resources for breeding useful agronomic traits (Daryanto et al., 2016). The recent concern on the biosafety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has necessitated the use of safer and effective alternative methods of crop genetic improvement (Charles et al., 2019). Therefore, biochemical parameters obtained in response to water deficit by maize, when tightly linked to gene of interest, can assist breeders in the selection of maize cultivars with high yield and stability under drought conditions (Charles et al., 2019).

  8. AIM AND OBJECTIVES The aim of the study is; To determine the non-enzymatic antioxidant responses of landraces and improved drought tolerant variety of maize to different levels of water stress. The objectives of this study were: To determine the ascorbic acid contents of both varieties in response to water stress To determine the - carotene contents of both varieties in response to water stress To determine the flavonoids contents of both varieties subjected to water stress

  9. AIM AND OBJECTIVES CONTD To determine the lipid Peroxidation values of both varieties in response to water stress in order to ascertain the extent of oxidative damage to cell membranes.

  10. MATERIALS AND METHODS Materials Sample Collection Landraces (TZM 1422 and TZM 219) and improved (Sammaz 40) varieties of maize seed were obtained from Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR) A.B.U. Zaria, and from International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan. Equipment and Apparatus used Screen House, Ceramic Mortar and Pestle, Centrifuge, Hot water bath, Freezer, and UV- spectrophotometer. Chemicals and Reagents All chemicals and reagents were of analytical grades.

  11. MATERIALS AND METHODS CONTD Methods Soil sampling, soil analysis, and soil sterilization Determination of soil water-field capacity Water field capacity of the soil was determined gravimetrically using the water percentage based estimation model of Mbagwu and Mbah (1998). FC= 0.79 (SP) 6.22 (r = 0.972). Treatment and experimental design The experiment was carried out in a completely randomize design (CRD). Samples were divided into 3 groups containing 3 replicates. Treatments were given as T1 (100 % FC), T2 (50 % FC), and T3 (25 % FC).

  12. MATERIALS AND METHODS CONTD Determination of ascorbic acid Ascorbic acid was determined by the indophenols method as described by (AOAC, 1994). Fresh leaves (1 g) from the different levels of water regime treatments at day 1, 15 and 30 were extracted in oxalic acid and titrated against the dye. Amount of ascorbic acid/100g sample = 0.5mg/V1ml x V2/5ml x 2ml/Wt. of sample x100 Determination of - carotene Beta carotene was determined using the acetone extraction method (Tretykov et al., 1990), at day 1, 15 and 30 of the experimental period. 0.5g of fresh samples were extracted with acetone and the absorbance read in spectrophotometer 452.5nm. at 633nm, 644nm and

  13. MATERIALS AND METHODS CONTD Determination lipid peroxidation Lipid peroxidation was determined using thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) concentration as described by Carmak and Host, 1991. The concentration of TBARS was calculated using the absorption coefficient, 155Mm-1Cm-1(Carmak and Host, 1991). Determination of flavonoids The flavonoid contents of the extracts were measured as per the Dowd method (1994). An aliquot of 1 ml of extract solution (200 g/ml) were mixed with 0.2 ml of 10% (w/v) AlCl3 solution in methanol, 0.2 mL (1M) potassium acetate and 5.6 ml distilled water The mixture was incubated and absorbance taken at 415 nm. Results were expressed as mg/g of quercetin equivalents per gram (mg QE/g) of fresh extract.

  14. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ANOVA and Duncan s multiple range test at P < 0.05 were used to analyzed the relationship between the amount of parameters, and increase in the severity of the stress imposed throughout the experimental duration.

  15. RESULTS Table 1: Ascorbic acid contents (mg /100 g FW) of landraces (TZM 1422 and TZM 219) and improved drought tolerant (Sammaz 40) varieties of maize subjected to different levels of water stress. EXPERIMENTAL DURATION (DAYS) VARIETIES TREATMENTS T1 T2 T3 TZM 1422 25.3 0.01c 28.35 0.01c 20.24 0.02c 1 TZM 219 22.66 0.03a 25.56 0.01a 21.60 0.01a Sam 40 21.78 0.10b 21.15 0.02b 21.72 0.03b TZM 1422 24.32 0.04c 34.83 0.07c 21.72 0.06a 15 TZM 219 21.91 0.02b 32.48 0.03a 23.15 0.04b Sam 40 29.47 0.03a 35.94 0.02b 22.17 0.03c TZM 1422 35.62 0.02b 48.65 0.03b 36.96 0.02b 30 TZM 219 36.84 0.08c 50.32 0.05c 33.51 0.04c Sam 40 34.40 0.03a 45.94 0.02a 38.17 0.03a Values are presented in means standard error of three replicates. Values with the same superscript alphabets on the same column are not significantly different at p> 0.05 Key: T1= 100% WC, T2= 50% WC, T3= 25% WC

  16. RESULTS CONTD Table 2: -carotene contents (mg /100g FW) of landraces (TZM 1422 and TZM 219) and improved drought tolerant (Sam 40) variety of maize subjected to different levels of water stress. EXPERIMENTAL DURATION (DAYS) VARIETIES TREATMENTS T1 T2 T3 TZM 1422 TZM 219 Sam 40 0.25 0.00a 0.31 0.00b 0.34 0.03c 0.27 0.01a 0.33 0.01b 0.36 0.02c 0.26 0.01a 0.32 0.01b 0.35 0.02c 1 TZM 1422 TZM 219 Sam 40 0.26 0.01a 0.48 0.01c 0.28 0.04b 0.49 0.04b 0.64 0.06c 0.39 0.02a 0.79 0.06b 0.86 0.01c 0.65 0.02a 15 TZM 1422 TZM 219 Sam 40 0.75 0.02b 0.83 0.03c 0.67 0.08a 0.65 0.05b 0.70 0.03c 0.52 0.02a 0.49 0.01b 0.54 0.04c 0.43 0.01a 30 Values are presented in means standard error of three replicates. Values with the same superscript alphabets on the same column are not significantly different at p> 0.05. Key: T1= 100% WC, T2= 50% WC, T3= 25% WC

  17. RESULTS CONTD Table 3: Flavonoids contents (mgQE/g FW) of landraces (TZM 1422 and TZM 219) and improved drought tolerant (Sam 40) varieties of maize subjected to different levels of water stress. EXPERIMENTAL DURATION (DAYS) VARIETIES TREATMENTS T1 T2 T3 TZM 1422 43.67 0.33b 43.66 0.33 b 43.65 0.32 b 1 TZM 219 42.00 0.58b 42.05 0.58 b 42.02 0.58 b Sam 40 33.00 0.58a 33.03 0.57 a 33.07 0.58 a TZM 1422 46.33 0.67c 50.33 0.88c 54.67 0.67c 15 TZM 219 44.33 0.33b 46.00 0.58b 48.33 0.67b Sam 40 35.00 0.58a 37.67 0.33a 44.00 1.15a TZM 1422 42.67 0.33b 47.67 0.33c 52.00 1.15c 30 TZM 219 43.00 0.58b 41.00 0.58b 46.00 0.58b Sam 40 33.00 0.58a 37.33 0.88a 41.67 1.20a Values are presented in means standard error of three replicates. Values with the same superscript alphabets on the same column are not significantly different at p> 0.05. Key: T1= 100% WC, T2= 50% WC, T3= 25% WC

  18. RESULTS CONTD Table 4: Lipid peroxidation values (nmol/g fw) of landraces (TZM 1422 and TZM 219) and improved drought tolerant (Sam 40) varieties of maize subjected to different levels of water stress EXPERIMENTAL DURATION (DAYS) VARIETIES TREATMENT T1 T2 T3 TZM 1422 TZM 219 Sam 40 1.15 0.01b 1.73 0.00c 0.90 0.00a 1.15 0.01 b 1.72 0.01 c 0.91 0.01 a 1.16 0.02 b 1.73 0.01 c 0.90 0.01 a 1 TZM 1422 TZM 219 Sam 40 1.79 0.01b 1.93 0.08c 0.98 0.04a 1.92 0.01b 2.17 0.00c 1.89 0.03 b 2.02 0.07a 2.28 0.06b 3.23 0.04c 15 TZM 1422 TZM 219 Sam 40 1.38 0.03a 2.95 0.01c 1.58 0.01b 2.35 0.01a 2.64 0.00b 3.98 0.01c 2.73 0.01b 1.94 0.04a 4.05 0.01c 30 Values are presented in means standard error of three replicates. Values with the same superscript alphabets on the same column are not significantly different at p> 0.05. Key: T1= 100% WC, T2= 50% WC, T3= 25% WC

  19. CONCLUSION In conclusion, this study shows that the landraces have higher contents of ascorbic acid, -carotene, flavonoids, and low value of lipid peroxidation in response to different levels of water stress. The higher contents of these metabolites is an indication of good antioxidant activity, while the lower lipid peroxidation value is a reflection of good membrane integrity in the face of oxidative stress.

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