Claim · model-written summary
Calcium and/or potassium significantly increased leaf Ca2+ and K+ content of faba bean.
- Taxon
- Vicia faba L.
Vicia fabae2 - Organ / stage
- leafe2
- Treatment
- Ca(2+) and/or K(+)e5
- Outcome
- content of Ca(2+), K(+)e5
- Direction
- significant improvemente5
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Verbatim
e2“in leaf of Vicia faba L. (cv. TARA) under Cd stress”
e5“However, a significant improvement was observed in all growth traits and content of Ca(2+), K(+), Chl a, Chl b, Pro and activity of antioxidant enzymes catalase (CAT), POD and SOD in plants subjected to Ca(2+) and/or K(+)”
Title
Effect of Calcium and Potassium on Antioxidant System of Vicia faba L. Under Cadmium Stress
Manzer H. Siddiqui; Mohamed H. Al-Whaibi; Ahmed M. Sakran; et al. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2012. doi:10.3390/ijms13066604
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Cadmium stress reduced growth traits of faba bean plants.
- Intervention effect Cadmium stress reduced leaf Ca2+ and K+ concentration of faba bean.
- Intervention effect Cadmium stress reduced leaf chlorophyll a and b content of faba bean.
- Intervention effect Cadmium stress slightly increased peroxidase and superoxide dismutase activity compared with control.
- Intervention effect Calcium and/or potassium significantly improved all growth traits of Cd-exposed faba bean.
- Intervention effect Calcium and/or potassium significantly increased chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and proline content of faba bean.
- Intervention effect Calcium and/or potassium significantly increased activity of catalase, peroxidase and superoxide dismutase in faba bean.
- Intervention effect Calcium and potassium applied together gave the maximum alleviating effect on Cd stress in faba bean.
- Intervention effect Calcium and/or potassium application had a significant and synergistic effect on faba bean growth.
- Mechanism Calcium and/or potassium enhanced faba bean growth by improving antioxidant enzyme and solute activity.
- Intervention effect Calcium and/or potassium application was highly effective against the toxicity of Cd in faba bean.