Claim · model-written summary
Authors interpret NO as counteracting Cd by lowering H2O2 via lower SOD and higher CAT activity.
- Treatment
- NOe0
- Outcome
- concentration of H 2 O 2e0
- Direction
- decreasinge0
- Qualifier
- reducing SOD activity and increasing CAT activitye0
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Verbatim
e0“NO acts as an antagonist to Cd, decreasing the concentration of H 2 O 2 by reducing SOD activity and increasing CAT activity”
e1“maize roots”
Title
Alejandro Sandria Díaz; Yasmini da Cunha Cruz; Vinícius Politi Duarte; et al. Physiologia Plantarum 2021. doi:10.1111/ppl.13582
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Higher NO decreased maize root dry and fresh masses.
- Intervention effect Higher Cd decreased maize root dry and fresh masses.
- Intervention effect Higher NO decreased hydrogen peroxide in maize roots.
- Intervention effect MDA increased only at higher Cd levels.
- Intervention effect Higher NO reduced SOD activity.
- Intervention effect Higher NO increased CAT activity.
- Intervention effect NO reduced maize root aerenchyma development.
- Mechanism Authors interpret elevated H2O2 as necessary for root cortical aerenchyma development.