Claim · model-written summary
Ni toxicity significantly increased total polyphenols, especially in shoots at 300 µM Ni.
- Taxon
- Cucurbita pepo L.
Cucurbita pepot0 - Organ / stage
- shootse1
- Treatment
- Ni toxicitye1
- Outcome
- total polyphenolse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Qualifier
- 300 µM Nie1
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Verbatim
t0“Cucurbita pepo L.”
e1“Ni toxicity significantly increased total polyphenols, especially in shoots at 300 µM Ni”
Title
Oumayma Labidi; Rim Kouki; Saida Hidouri; et al. Plants 2024. doi:10.3390/plants13172361
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Exposure of zucchini plants to Ni significantly altered growth.
- Observation Ni accumulation was higher in the shoots (1314 µg g-1 DW) than in roots and fruits.
- Intervention effect Flavonoid content decreased in the roots and shoots in response to Ni treatment.
- Mechanism Nickel tolerance in C. pepo is ensured by a combination of mechanisms such as increased proline content.
- Observation The species survived and tolerated toxic Ni concentrations up to 500 µM to different degrees, with visible toxicity symptoms such as leaf chlorosis.
- Observation Based on hyperaccumulation thresholds, Cucurbita pepo can be qualified as a nickel hyperaccumulator species.