Claim · model-written summary
Arsenic oxide nanoparticles induced arsenic uptake and accumulation in wheat.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- Soil amendment with arsenic oxide nanoparticles (As-NPs)e0
- Outcome
- uptake and accumulation of Ase0
- Direction
- inducede0
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Verbatim
e0“Soil amendment with arsenic oxide nanoparticles (As-NPs) induced the uptake and accumulation of As in the plants of both species, resulting in reduced growth and photosynthesis, but less marked in maize than in wheat plants.”
Title
Samy Selim; Hamada AbdElgawad; Salam S. Alsharari; et al. Physiologia Plantarum 2021. doi:10.1111/ppl.13496
Other claims from this paper (17)
- Intervention effect Arsenic oxide nanoparticles induced arsenic uptake and accumulation in maize.
- Intervention effect Arsenic nanoparticles reduced wheat growth and photosynthesis more strongly than in maize.
- Intervention effect Arsenic nanoparticles reduced maize growth and photosynthesis less strongly than in wheat.
- Intervention effect Without As-NPs, Streptomyces improved wheat growth and photosynthesis only.
- Intervention effect Streptomyces reduced arsenic accumulation in wheat.
- Intervention effect Streptomyces reduced arsenic accumulation in maize.
- Intervention effect Streptomyces recovered wheat growth, photosynthesis inhibition and oxidative damage caused by As-NPs.
- Intervention effect Streptomyces recovered maize growth, photosynthesis inhibition and oxidative damage caused by As-NPs.
- Observation Wheat specifically accumulated soluble sugars.
- Observation Wheat accumulated proline.
- Observation Maize accumulated proline.
- Observation Under As-NPs stress, the ornithine proline-biosynthesis pathway was more important in maize than wheat.
- Observation The glutamine pathway dominated wheat proline biosynthesis under As-NPs stress.
- Intervention effect Streptomyces further induced wheat proline and starch accumulation.
- Intervention effect Streptomyces further induced maize proline and starch accumulation.
- Mechanism Streptomyces-induced metabolic responses trigger wheat stress recovery.
- Mechanism Streptomyces-induced metabolic responses trigger maize stress recovery.