{"title":"Heavy metals tolerance on seed germination and growth of serpentine plant species Alyssum murale L.","authors":"B. Gashi, Mirsade Osmani, Naim Berisha, Liridon Buqaj, Besnik Dakaj, Eliesa Qazimi, Erëza Çoçaj","doi":"10.14232/abs.2022.2.116-124","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Alyssum murale L. is a nickel hyperaccumulator herbaceous perennial species in a natural serpentine soil and adapted to arid, infertile soils. The objective of this study was to investigate how the seed germination, root, and hypocotyl growth of this plant species respond to exposure to different concentrations of heavy metals such as lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), nickel (Ni), chromium (Cr) and manganese (Mn). The highest germination, even higher than in the control group, was observed at lower concentrations of Ni, Cd, Pb and Mn, while almost all higher concentrations of the metals decreased germination. Germination time was significantly slower (from about 6 to 10 days) for seeds treated with higher metal concentrations, especially Mn, Cd and Ni, and faster (from about 3 to 5 days) for seeds treated with lower concentrations. The strongest inhibitory effect on root and hypocotyl length occurred in treatments with different concentrations of Pb, Cd, and Mn, and seeds treated with lower concentrations of Ni showed a positive effect on root and hypocotyl growth. Seeds treated with Ni showed relatively high tolerance to this metal, presenting the potential for practical use in various fields of phytoremediation technology.","PeriodicalId":34918,"journal":{"name":"Acta Biologica Szegediensis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Acta Biologica Szegediensis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14232/abs.2022.2.116-124","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Agricultural and Biological Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Alyssum murale L. is a nickel hyperaccumulator herbaceous perennial species in a natural serpentine soil and adapted to arid, infertile soils. The objective of this study was to investigate how the seed germination, root, and hypocotyl growth of this plant species respond to exposure to different concentrations of heavy metals such as lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), nickel (Ni), chromium (Cr) and manganese (Mn). The highest germination, even higher than in the control group, was observed at lower concentrations of Ni, Cd, Pb and Mn, while almost all higher concentrations of the metals decreased germination. Germination time was significantly slower (from about 6 to 10 days) for seeds treated with higher metal concentrations, especially Mn, Cd and Ni, and faster (from about 3 to 5 days) for seeds treated with lower concentrations. The strongest inhibitory effect on root and hypocotyl length occurred in treatments with different concentrations of Pb, Cd, and Mn, and seeds treated with lower concentrations of Ni showed a positive effect on root and hypocotyl growth. Seeds treated with Ni showed relatively high tolerance to this metal, presenting the potential for practical use in various fields of phytoremediation technology.
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Acta Biologica Szegediensis (ISSN 1588-385X print form; ISSN 1588-4082 online form), a member of the Acta Universitatis Szegediensis family of scientific journals (ISSN 0563-0592), is published yearly by the University of Szeged. Acta Biologica Szegediensis covers the growth areas of modern biology and publishes original research articles and reviews, involving, but not restricted to, the fields of anatomy, embryology and histology, anthropology, biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, botany and plant physiology, all areas of clinical sciences, conservation biology, ecology, genetics, microbiology, molecular biology, neurosciences, paleontology, pharmacology, physiology and pathophysiology, and zoology.