Claim · model-written summary
Compared with Cd alone, PGA plus Cd stress increased maximum photochemical efficiency of PSII, photochemical quenching and quantum efficiency of PSII in wheat leaves.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Organ / stage
- leavese0
- Treatment
- PGA plus Cd stresse1
- Outcome
- Fv/Fm, qP, ΦPSIIe1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Comparator
- Cd alonee2
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“in leaves of wheat seedlings under cadmium (Cd) stress”
e1“Besides, PGA plus Cd stress decreased Cd accumulation and increased SPAD value, Pn, qN, Fv/Fm, qP, ΦPSII, wheat height and dry biomass.”
e2“Compared to Cd alone, PGA plus Cd stress reinforced AsA and GSH metabolism via the above enzymes and increased AsA and GSH contents and their redox status.”
t0“Poly-glutamic acid reinforces wheat cadmium tolerance by modulating ascorbic acid and glutathione metabolism”
Title
Limin Wu; Qiumei Zhang; Ninghai Lu Plant Soil and Environment 2024. doi:10.17221/154/2024-pse
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect Cd stress enhanced ascorbate peroxidase, dehydroascorbate reductase and monodehydroascorbate reductase activities in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Cd stress enhanced glutathione reductase, gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase and L-galactono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenase activities in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Cd stress increased AsA and GSH contents in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Cd reduced the AsA/DHA and GSH/GSSG ratios in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Cd increased malondialdehyde content and electrolyte leakage in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Cd stress improved Cd accumulation in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Cd stress improved nonphotochemical quenching (qN) in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Cd stress decreased SPAD value, net photosynthetic rate and maximum photochemical efficiency of PSII in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Cd stress decreased photochemical quenching and quantum efficiency of PSII photochemistry in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Cd stress decreased wheat height and dry biomass.
- Intervention effect Compared with Cd alone, PGA plus Cd stress reinforced AsA and GSH metabolism in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Compared with Cd alone, PGA plus Cd stress increased AsA and GSH contents and their redox status in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Compared with Cd alone, PGA plus Cd stress decreased malondialdehyde content and electrolyte leakage in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Compared with Cd alone, PGA plus Cd stress decreased Cd accumulation in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Compared with Cd alone, PGA plus Cd stress increased SPAD value, net photosynthetic rate and nonphotochemical quenching in wheat leaves.
- Intervention effect Compared with Cd alone, PGA plus Cd stress increased wheat height and dry biomass.
- Intervention effect PGA alone had positive effects on the indicators measured in wheat under Cd-free conditions reported in the study.
- Intervention effect PGA enhanced wheat Cd tolerance by preventing Cd uptake and enhancing AsA and GSH metabolism.
- Recommendation PGA can be applied to enhance wheat Cd tolerance in production.