Abstract
Increasing human and industrial activities lead to heavy metal pollution. Heavy metal chromium (Cr) is considered to be a serious environmental contaminant for the biota. Phytotoxic effects of Cr were studied in wheat plants. Growth parameters were largely inhibited as a result of disturbances in the plant cell metabolism in response to Cr toxicity. Chromium toxicity led to decline in a number of active reaction centres of PSII, rate of electron transport, and change in PSII heterogeneity. Chromium did not cause any change in heterogeneity of the reducing side. A significant change in antenna size heterogeneity of PSII occurred in response to Cr toxicity. Chromium seems to have extensive effects on the light harvesting complex of PSII.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Chromium toxicity inhibited wheat growth parameters.
- Taxon
- wheat plant
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- Cr toxicitye0
- Outcome
- Growth parameterse0
- Direction
- inhibitede0
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e0“Growth parameters were largely inhibited as a result of disturbances in the plant cell metabolism in response to Cr toxicity.”
t0“wheat plant”
Claim · model-written summary
Chromium toxicity reduced the number of active PSII reaction centres.
- Taxon
- wheat plantTriticum aestivumt0
- Treatment
- Chromium toxicitye0
- Outcome
- number of active reaction centres of PSIIe0
- Direction
- declinee0
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e0“Chromium toxicity led to decline in a number of active reaction centres of PSII, rate of electron transport, and change in PSII heterogeneity.”
t0“wheat plant”
Claim · model-written summary
Chromium toxicity reduced the electron transport rate.
- Taxon
- wheat plantTriticum aestivumt0
- Treatment
- Chromium toxicitye0
- Outcome
- rate of electron transporte0
- Direction
- declinee0
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e0“Chromium toxicity led to decline in a number of active reaction centres of PSII, rate of electron transport, and change in PSII heterogeneity.”
t0“wheat plant”
Claim · model-written summary
Chromium toxicity changed PSII heterogeneity.
- Taxon
- wheat plantTriticum aestivumt0
- Treatment
- Chromium toxicitye0
- Outcome
- PSII heterogeneitye0
- Direction
- changee0
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e0“Chromium toxicity led to decline in a number of active reaction centres of PSII, rate of electron transport, and change in PSII heterogeneity.”
t0“wheat plant”
Claim · model-written summary
Chromium caused no change in reducing-side heterogeneity.
- Taxon
- wheat plantTriticum aestivumt0
- Treatment
- Chromiume0
- Outcome
- heterogeneity of the reducing sidee0
- Direction
- did not cause any changee0
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Verbatim
e0“Chromium did not cause any change in heterogeneity of the reducing side.”
t0“wheat plant”
Claim · model-written summary
Chromium toxicity significantly changed PSII antenna size heterogeneity.
- Taxon
- wheat plantTriticum aestivumt0
- Treatment
- Cr toxicitye0
- Outcome
- antenna size heterogeneity of PSIIe0
- Direction
- changee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A significant change in antenna size heterogeneity of PSII occurred in response to Cr toxicity.”
t0“wheat plant”
Claim · model-written summary
Chromium appears to extensively affect the PSII light harvesting complex.
- Taxon
- wheat plantTriticum aestivumt0
- Treatment
- Chromiume0
- Outcome
- light harvesting complex of PSIIe0
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Verbatim
e0“Chromium seems to have extensive effects on the light harvesting complex of PSII.”
t0“wheat plant”
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