Desalination brine effects beyond excess salinity: Unravelling specific stress signaling and tolerance responses in the seagrass Posidonia oceanica
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Título: | Desalination brine effects beyond excess salinity: Unravelling specific stress signaling and tolerance responses in the seagrass Posidonia oceanica |
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Autor/es: | Blanco Murillo, Fabio | Marín-Guirao, Lázaro | Sola Macia, Iván | Rodríguez-Rojas, Fernanda | Ruiz, Juan M. | Sánchez-Lizaso, José Luis | Sáez, Claudio A. |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Biología Marina | Recursos Hídricos y Desarrollo Sostenible |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias del Mar y Biología Aplicada |
Palabras clave: | Posidonia oceanica | Seagrass | Salinity | Desalination brine |
Fecha de publicación: | 7-sep-2023 |
Editor: | Elsevier |
Cita bibliográfica: | Chemosphere. 2023, 341: 140061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140061 |
Resumen: | Desalination has been proposed as a global strategy for tackling freshwater shortage in the climate change era. However, there is a concern regarding the environmental effects of high salinity brines discharged from desalination plants on benthic communities. In this context, seagrasses such as the Mediterranean endemic and ecologically important Posidonia oceanica have shown high vulnerability to elevated salinities. Most ecotoxicological studies regarding desalination effects are based on salinity increments using artificial sea salts, although it has been postulated that certain additives within the industrial process of desalination may exacerbate a negative impact beyond just the increased salinities of the brine. To assess the potential effect of whole effluent brines on P. oceanica, mesocosm experiments were conducted within 10 days, simulating salinity increment with either artificial sea salts or brines from a desalination plant (at 43 psμ, 6 psμ over the natural 37 psμ). Morphometrical (growth and necrosis), photochemical (PSII chlorophyll a fluorometry), metabolic, such as hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), thiobarbituric reactive substances (TBARS) and ascorbate/dehydroascorbate (ASC/DHA), and molecular (expression of key tolerance genes) responses were analyzed in each different treatment. Although with a still positive leaf growth, associated parameters decreased similarly for both artificial sea salt and brine treatments. Photochemical parameters did not show general patterns, although only P. oceanica under brines demonstrated greater energy release through heat (NPQ). Lipid peroxidation and upregulation of genes related to oxidative stress (GR, MnSOD, and FeSOD) or ion exclusion (SOS3 and AKT2/3) were similarly incremented on both hypersalinity treatments. Conversely, the ASC/DHA ratio was significantly lower, and the expression of SOS1, CAT, and STRK1 was increased under brine influence. This study revealed that although metabolic and photochemical differences occurred under both hypersalinity treatments, growth (the last sign of physiological detriment) was similarly compromised, suggesting that the potential effects of desalination are mainly caused by brine-associated salinities and are not particularly related to other industrial additives. |
Patrocinador/es: | This investigation was funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (888415) granted to C.A. Sáez. F. Blanco-Murillo was supported by a grant from Universidad de Alicante (Grant ID: FPUUA98). F. Rodríguez-Rojas was financed by the ANID project FONDECYT 11220425. C.A. Sáez was also financed by project ANID InES I+D 2021 (INID210013). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/137033 |
ISSN: | 0045-6535 (Print) | 1879-1298 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140061 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140061 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - BM - Artículos Científicos / Scientific Papers INV - Recursos Hídricos y Desarrollo Sostenible - Artículos de Revistas Investigaciones financiadas por la UE |
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