Abstract
Cadmium (Cd) contamination in rice has been a serious threat to human health. To investigate the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) on the Cd translocation in rice, a controlled pot experiment was conducted. The results indicated that AMF significantly increased rice biomass, with an increase of up to 40.0%, particularly in root biomass by up to 68.4%. Notably, the number of prominent rice individuals also increased, and their plasticity was enhanced following AMF inoculation. AMF led to an increase in the net photosynthetic rate and antioxidant enzyme activity of rice. In the AMF treatment group, the Cd concentration in the rice roots was significantly higher (19.1%‒68.0%) compared with that in the control group. Conversely, the Cd concentration in the rice seeds was lower in the AMF treatment group, indicating that AMF facilitated the sequestration of Cd in rice roots and reduced Cd accumulation in the seeds. Path coefficients varied across different treatments, suggesting that AMF inoculation reduced the direct impact of soil Cd concentration on the total Cd accumulation in seeds. The translocation of Cd was consistently associated with simultaneous growth dilution and compensatory accumulation as a result of mycorrhizal effects. Our study quantitatively analyzed this process through path analysis and clarified the causal relationship between rice growth and Cd transfer under the influence of AMF.
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Claim · model-written summary
AMF inoculation significantly increased rice biomass by up to 40.0%.
- Taxon
- rice
Oryza sativae1 - Treatment
- AMFe1
- Interactor
- AMFe1symbiont
- Outcome
- rice biomasse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 40.0%e1
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e1“AMF significantly increased rice biomass, with an increase of up to 40.0%”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF inoculation increased rice root biomass by up to 68.4%.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae1
- Treatment
- AMFe1
- Interactor
- AMFe1symbiont
- Outcome
- root biomasse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 68.4%e1
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e1“AMF significantly increased rice biomass, with an increase of up to 40.0%, particularly in root biomass by up to 68.4%”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF inoculation increased the number of prominent rice individuals and enhanced their plasticity.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae1
- Treatment
- AMF inoculatione1
- Interactor
- AMFe1symbiont
- Outcome
- number of prominent rice individualse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Qualifier
- their plasticity was enhancede1
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e1“Notably, the number of prominent rice individuals also increased, and their plasticity was enhanced following AMF inoculation”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF increased the net photosynthetic rate and antioxidant enzyme activity of rice.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae1
- Treatment
- AMFe1
- Interactor
- AMFe1symbiont
- Outcome
- net photosynthetic rate and antioxidant enzyme activitye1
- Direction
- increasee1
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Verbatim
e1“AMF led to an increase in the net photosynthetic rate and antioxidant enzyme activity of rice”
Claim · model-written summary
In the AMF treatment group, Cd concentration in rice roots was significantly higher (19.1%‒68.0%) than in the control group.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae1
- Organ / stage
- rootse1
- Treatment
- AMFe1
- Interactor
- AMFe1symbiont
- Outcome
- Cd concentration in the rice rootse1
- Direction
- highere1
- Value
- 19.1%‒68.0%e1
- Comparator
- control groupe1
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e1“In the AMF treatment group, the Cd concentration in the rice roots was significantly higher (19.1%‒68.0%) compared with that in the control group”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF treatment lowered Cd concentration in rice seeds.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativae1
- Organ / stage
- seedse1
- Treatment
- AMFe1
- Interactor
- AMFe1symbiont
- Outcome
- Cd concentration in the rice seedse1
- Direction
- lowere1
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Verbatim
e1“the Cd concentration in the rice seeds was lower in the AMF treatment group”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF inoculation appears to reduce the direct effect of soil Cd concentration on total Cd accumulation in seeds (path analysis).
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativat0
- Treatment
- AMF inoculatione1
- Interactor
- AMFe1symbiont
- Outcome
- direct impact of soil Cd concentration on the total Cd accumulation in seedse1
- Direction
- reducede1
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Verbatim
t0“Rice Growth”
e1“Path coefficients varied across different treatments, suggesting that AMF inoculation reduced the direct impact of soil Cd concentration on the total Cd accumulation in seeds”
Claim · model-written summary
Cd translocation was consistently associated with simultaneous growth dilution and compensatory accumulation, attributed to mycorrhizal effects.
- Taxon
- riceOryza sativat0
- Outcome
- translocation of Cde1
- Qualifier
- simultaneous growth dilution and compensatory accumulatione1
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t0“Rice Growth”
e1“The translocation of Cd was consistently associated with simultaneous growth dilution and compensatory accumulation as a result of mycorrhizal effects”
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