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PLANT SOIL AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 53, Issue 3, Pages 129-135Publisher
CZECH ACADEMY AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
DOI: 10.17221/2228-PSE
Keywords
growth; chlorophyll; net photosynthesis; dark respiration; cadmium; pea; kinetin
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The effect of foliar application of kinetin on the growth and some physiological processes of pea plants growing in soil supplemented with 25 or 50 mu M Cd were studied. Cadmium treatment inhibited the growth rate, chlorophyll (Chl) content, net photosynthesis (P-N), content of soluble sugars and free amino acids of either shoots or roots. The application of kinetin (kin) enhanced the growth rate, Chl content, P-N, soluble sugars and free amino acids content of shoots and roots; dark respiration rate (R-D), contents of soluble protein and proline were increased by cadmium treatment. The addition of kinetin to Cd-stressed plant reduced R-D, soluble protein and proline content. Considerable variations in the content of Na+, K+, Ca2+ and Mg2+ were induced by Cd-treatments. Foliar application of kinetin exhibited a favorable effect on the accumulation of some ions and antagonized or ameliorated the inhibitory effect of Cd stress on some others.
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