Claim · model-written summary
Mg-BNCs improved chlorophyll content and gas exchange in soybean.
- Taxon
- soybean
Glycine maxe2 - Treatment
- Mg-BNCse1
- Outcome
- chlorophyll content and gas exchange parameterse0
- Direction
- improvede0
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Verbatim
e0“Photosynthetic efficiency was restored through improved chlorophyll content and gas exchange parameters”
e1“Mg-BNCs reduced Cd accumulation”
e2“Cd toxicity in soybean ( Glycine max L.) cultivation systems”
Title
Qi Zhang; Temoor Ahmed; Wendan Xiao; et al. Environmental Technology & Innovation 2026. doi:10.1016/j.eti.2026.104821
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Mg-BNCs increased soybean plant length by 26.5% versus Cd-stressed controls.
- Intervention effect Mg-BNCs increased soybean fresh weight by 36.3% versus Cd-stressed controls.
- Intervention effect Mg-BNCs increased soybean dry weight by 38.2% versus Cd-stressed controls.
- Intervention effect Mg-BNCs reduced hydrogen peroxide by 33.2% in soybean.
- Intervention effect Mg-BNCs reduced malondialdehyde by 33.8% in soybean.
- Intervention effect Mg-BNCs enhanced soybean antioxidant enzyme activities.
- Intervention effect Mg-BNCs reduced soybean shoot Cd accumulation by 75.0%.
- Intervention effect Mg-BNCs reduced soybean root Cd accumulation by 64.2%.
- Intervention effect Mg-BNCs enhanced Mg uptake in soybean.
- Association Mg-BNC application was associated with shifts in soybean rhizosphere microbial community composition.
- Association Mg-BNC application was associated with higher Sphingomonas abundance in the soybean rhizosphere.
- Association Mg-BNC application was associated with higher Bacillus abundance in the soybean rhizosphere.
- Association Mg-BNC application was associated with higher Gemmatimonas abundance in the soybean rhizosphere.
- Method / resource Metabolomic profiling identified 887 metabolites in soybean.
- Intervention effect Mg-BNCs modulated pyrimidine metabolism, oxidative phosphorylation and photosynthesis pathways in soybean.
- Recommendation The authors present Mg-BNCs as a sustainable option for agricultural cadmium remediation.