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Algal supplements can improve crop productivity and afford protection against abiotic stress by virtue of their rich content of plant nutrients and bioactive compounds. The present work investigates the relative efficiency of the biomass and extract of the brown alga Dictyota dichotoma in protection of rice against salinity and water stress. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) cv. Sakha 101 was grown on a silty clay soil amended with the aqueous extract and powder of D. dichotoma under NaCl and PEG 6000 stress at water potential of − 0.492 MPa. Abiotic stress, particularly water stress, reduced rice growth and concentrations of K+ and protein but increased soluble sugars, starch, proline and Na+ concentrations of plant tissues, with counterbalancing effect of algal amendment. The benefit of algal amendment was greater for algal extract than algal powder and under water stress than salt stress. Algal amendment and abiotic stress promoted catalase and peroxidase activities in rice leaves with variable effect on polyphenol oxidase. The benefit of D. dichotoma to rice can be related to macro- and micro-nutrients, growth hormones, phenolics, flavonoids, sterols, vitamins and fucoidan. The production of toxic intermediates as a result of fermentation of the algal biomass in the paddy soil might reduce the benefit of algal amendment. Although rice is salt-sensitive, it is more resistant to salt stress than to drought stress. The ability of rice to retain Na+ in the root is pivotal for stress resistance, but the role of K+ partitioning is less evident.
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The authors thank the Experimental Station of Agricultural Research at Giza, Egypt for providing rice seeds. This work did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
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El-Katony, T.M., Deyab, M.A., El-Adl, M.F. et al. The aqueous extract and powder of the brown alga Dictyota dichotoma (Hudson) differentially alleviate the impact of abiotic stress on rice (Oryza sativa L.). Physiol Mol Biol Plants 26, 1155–1171 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12298-020-00805-2
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