Phytoremediation potential of black nightshade in cadmium contaminated soils in hydroponic system
Subject Areas :
Agroecology Journal
Fatemeh Ebrahimi
1
,
Amin Baghizadeh
2
,
Shahram Pourseyedi
3
1 - Master of Plant Breeding, Graduate University of
Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran.
2 - Associate professor of Biotechnology Department, Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran.
3 - Associate professor, College of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.
Received: 2016-08-02
Accepted : 2017-04-11
Published : 2017-04-21
Keywords:
o oxidative stress,
o heavy metal,
o hydroponic culture,
o hyperaccumulator plants,
o bioremediation,
Abstract :
Cadmium is a heavy metal causing oxidative stress in plants. The study objective was to determine phytoremediation potential of black nightshade in cadmium contaminated culture medium. The experiment was carried out under hydroponic conditions with five cadmium chloride concentrations of 0, 100, 200, 400 and 600 mM based on completely randomized design in three replications. Root length, plant height, plant fresh and dry weight, leaf area, cadmium uptake rate and total chlorophyll were recorded. Cadmium application decreased plant dry weight, leaf area and total chlorophyll and increased root length, plant height and cadmium uptake. Cadmium concentrations up to 400 mM caused cadmium uptake increment in plants. Black nightshade kept phytoremediation potential even at 600 mM cadmium concentration. These changes in morph-physiological traits are for cadmium stress management causing survivability of plant against these conditions and black nightshade could be effective in environment hygiene by cadmium accumulation in its tissues. Therefore, black nightshade might be recommended as a cadmium hyper-accumulator plant in industrial cadmium contaminated soils.
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Prasad MN (1995) Cadmium toxicity and tolerance in vascular plants. Environment and Experimental Botany 35(4): 525-545.
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Schickler H, Caspi H (1999) Response of antioxidative enzymes to nickel and cadmium stress in hyperaccumulator plants of the genus Alyssum. Physiologia Plantarum 105(1): 39-44.
Shaw BP (1995) Effects of mercury and cadmium on the activities of antioxidative enzymes in the seedlings of Phaseolus aureus. Biologia Plantarum 37: 587-596.
Vasssilev AI, Yordanov T (1995) Effect of cadmium stress on growth and photosynthesis of young barley (H. vulgar L.). Bulgarian Journal of Plant Physiology 21(4): 12-21.
Watson L, Dallwitz MJ (1992 onwards) The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. Available on-line as <delta-intkey.com/angio/> on 13 March 2017.
