Agricultural productivity is subjected to enormous environmental constraints, particularly to salinity and drought due to their higher magnitude of adverse impacts and worldwide distribution. Silicon (Si) was found to play a favorable role in salinity and drought stress alleviation of soybean cultivar Daewonkong. All growth attributes insignificantly improved with Si nutrition. The endogenous bioactive GA1 and GA4 content increased with the application of elevated Si level both under normal and stressful condition. JA contents sharply increased with NaCl and PEG application but decreses with Si added to salt and drought stress treatments. SA level increased with NaCl and PEG and was further enhanced with Si in the salt treated plants, but reduced with the combined application of Si and PEG. The endogenous bioactive GA1 and GA4, JA and ABA content of soybean leaves were analyzed through chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS) in selected ion monitoring (SIM) mode, while SA content was quantified with HPLC.

• Muhammad Hamayun(Department of Agronomy, Kyungpook National University)
• Sang-Mo Kang(Department of Agronomy, Kyungpook National University)
• Nadeem Ahmad(Department of Agronomy, Kyungpook National University)
• Chae-In Na(Department of Agronomy, Kyungpook National University)
• Dongsheng Tang(Department of Agronomy, Kyungpook National University)
• Yong-Hyun Hwang(Department of Agronomy, Kyungpook National University)
• In-Jung Lee(Department of Agronomy, Kyungpook National University) Corresponding Author