Claim · model-written summary
Lead accumulated mainly in roots.
- Taxon
- Trigonella foenum-graecum L.
Trigonella foenum-graecumt0 - Outcome
- Pb was mostly accumulated in rootse0
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Verbatim
e0“Pb was mostly accumulated in roots”
t0“Trigonella foenum-graecum L.”
Title
Fadwa Melki; Ons Talbi Zribi; Sabrine Jeder; et al. Crop and Pasture Science 2022. doi:10.1071/cp21583
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Increasing Cd and Pb reduced fenugreek growth, shoot and root length, and photosynthetic parameters.
- Intervention effect Cadmium had more pronounced effects on seedlings than lead.
- Observation Tolerance index ranged from 0.41 to 0.81.
- Observation Fenugreek maintained stable water status.
- Intervention effect At 400 μM Cd, CO2 assimilation fell by 86%.
- Intervention effect At 400 μM Cd, transpiration rate fell by 87%.
- Intervention effect At 400 μM Cd, stomatal conductance fell by 57%.
- Intervention effect At 400 μM Cd, chlorophyll content fell by 35%.
- Intervention effect At 400 μM Cd, carotenoid content fell by 53%.
- Intervention effect Cd at 200 and 300 μM significantly increased shoot proline.
- Intervention effect Pb at 100 and 200 μM slightly increased shoot proline.
- Intervention effect Cd and Pb reduced shoot magnesium and phosphorus content.
- Intervention effect Cd and Pb increased shoot iron content.
- Observation Cadmium accumulated in harvestable parts up to 20 mg/kg DW at 400 μM.