Claim · model-written summary
GSH upregulated lignin biosynthesis genes, which the authors link to stronger cell wall barriers against cadmium.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- GSHe1
- Gene
- lignin biosynthesis genese0
- Outcome
- cell wall barriers against Cde0
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Verbatim
e0“it upregulates lignin biosynthesis genes to fortify cell wall barriers against Cd.”
t0“alfalfa”
e1“GSH stimulates amino acid and soluble sugar biosynthesis”
Title
Mengting Jiang; Haojie Wang; Yingao Li; et al. Industrial Crops and Products 2025. doi:10.1016/j.indcrop.2025.122254
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Cadmium stress significantly hindered alfalfa growth.
- Intervention effect GSH partially restored alfalfa fresh weight under cadmium stress.
- Intervention effect GSH partially restored alfalfa height under cadmium stress.
- Intervention effect GSH reduced MDA content and superoxide anion level.
- Intervention effect GSH elevated endogenous GSH content, SOD and POD activities, and total antioxidant capacity.
- Mechanism GSH enhanced expression of genes associated with plant hormone signal transduction.
- Mechanism GSH increased accumulation of metabolites associated with plant hormone signal transduction.
- Intervention effect GSH stimulated amino acid and soluble sugar biosynthesis.
- Intervention effect GSH increased tryptophan levels.
- Intervention effect GSH increased rhamnose levels.
- Intervention effect GSH upregulated ASMT, PRODH and otsB genes.
- Intervention effect GSH enhanced metal efflux protein gene expression.
- Intervention effect GSH restricted cadmium ion transport to shoots.
- Intervention effect GSH inhibited expression of YSL, NRAMP and HMA metal transporters.
- Intervention effect GSH reduced cadmium absorption.
- Mechanism GSH activated tryptophan and glutathione metabolism to alleviate cadmium-induced oxidative stress.