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Aims The survival and ecological distribution of plants in arid habitats are mainly conditioned by water availability and physiological adaptations to withstand drought. In the present study, we have compared the physiological responses to drought of two Retama raetam (retama) subspecies from Tunisia, one of them living under the desert climate (subsp. raetam) and the other one growing on the coast (subsp. bovei). Methods To physiologically characterize the two R. raetam subspecies, and to elucidate their main mechanisms underlying their tolerance to drought stress, parameters related to seed germination, growth, photosynthesis (net photosynthetic rate, intracellular CO2 concentration, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance and water-use efficiency) and accumulation of osmolytes (proline, glycine betaine [GB] and soluble sugars) were determined in 4-month-old plants subjected to stress for up to 1 month. Important Findings Drought significantly inhibited germination, growth and all the evaluated photosynthetic parameters. Plants of R. raetam subsp. bovei were severely affected by drought after 3 weeks of treatment when photosynthesis rates were up to 7-fold lower than in the controls. At the same time, proline and GB significantly accumulated compared with the irrigated controls, but much less than in R. raetam subsp. raetam; in the latter subspecies, proline and GB increased to levels 24- and 6-fold higher, respectively, than in the corresponding controls. In summary, the population living in the desert region exhibited stronger tolerance to drought stress than that adapted to the semiarid littoral climate, suggesting that tolerance in R. raetam is dependent on accumulation of osmolytes.

Adaptive responses to drought of twoRetama raetamsubspecies from Tunisia