Claim · model-written summary
Chromium toxicity inhibited wheat growth parameters.
- Taxon
- wheat plant
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Cr toxicitye0
- Outcome
- Growth parameterse0
- Direction
- inhibitede0
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Verbatim
e0“Growth parameters were largely inhibited as a result of disturbances in the plant cell metabolism in response to Cr toxicity.”
t0“wheat plant”
Title
Investigation of deleterious effects of chromium phytotoxicity and photosynthesis in wheat plant
S. Mathur; H. M. Kalaji; A. Jajoo Photosynthetica 2016. doi:10.1007/s11099-016-0198-6
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Chromium toxicity reduced the number of active PSII reaction centres.
- Intervention effect Chromium toxicity reduced the electron transport rate.
- Intervention effect Chromium toxicity changed PSII heterogeneity.
- Intervention effect Chromium caused no change in reducing-side heterogeneity.
- Intervention effect Chromium toxicity significantly changed PSII antenna size heterogeneity.
- Observation Chromium appears to extensively affect the PSII light harvesting complex.