Claim · model-written summary
Combined Cd and As exposure decreased aerial dry weight by 50.7%.
- Taxon
- lemon balmt0
- Treatment
- Cd and As exposuree0
- Outcome
- dry weight of the aerial partse0
- Direction
- decreasee0
- Value
- 50.7%e0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
t0“lemon balm (Melissa officinalis L.)”
e0“Cd and As exposure led to a 50.7% decrease in the dry weight of the aerial parts”
Title
Mostafa Heidari; Efat Fakhr Mohammadi; Mehdi Babaian; et al. Greenhouse Plant Production Journal 2025. doi:10.61882/gppj.2.2.93
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Increasing soil Cd reduced root dry weight by 18.5%.
- Intervention effect Increasing soil As reduced root dry weight by 32.01%.
- Intervention effect The metals significantly lowered chlorophyll a by 72.2%.
- Intervention effect The metals significantly lowered carotenoids by 71.6%.
- Intervention effect The metals increased leaf anthocyanin levels by 77.6%.
- Intervention effect Cd and As increased leaf catalase activity by 49.4%.
- Intervention effect Cd and As increased leaf superoxide dismutase activity by 49.6%.
- Intervention effect Cd and As diminished leaf N, P and K concentrations.
- Association More As than Cd was translocated to aerial tissues, and As had a greater effect.
- Observation Root Cd concentration ranged from 2.7 to 53.3 µg g⁻¹ dry weight.
- Intervention effect Aerial Cd concentration increased 1.5 times.
- Intervention effect Root As concentration increased 17.9 times.
- Intervention effect Aerial As concentration increased 15.1 times.