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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 208, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.111605
Keywords
Mercury polluted soil; Elevated CO2; Leaf net photosynthesis; Seed yield
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41701315, 41877382]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [XDJK2014C185]
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The study found that rice growth in Hg polluted soil under ECO2 conditions is influenced by various factors, with ECO2 increasing rice yield and leaf water use efficiency, but having no effect on leaf chlorophyll content and leaf mass per area. Soil Hg pollution significantly affects the light saturated CO2 assimilation rate of rice leaves.
This is a novel study about responses of leaf photosynthetic traits and plant mercury (Hg) accumulation of rice grown in Hg polluted soils to elevated CO2 (ECO2). The aim of this study was to provide basic information on the acclimation capacity of photosynthesis and Hg accumulation in rice grown in Hg polluted soil under ECO2 at day, night, and full day. For this purpose, we analyzed leaf photosynthetic traits of rice at flowering and grain filling. In addition, chlorophyll content, soluble sugar and Malondialdehyde (MDA) of rice leaves were measured at flowering. Seed yield, ear number, grain number per ear, 1000-grain weight, total mercury (THg) and methyl mercury (MeHg) contents were determined after harvest. Our results showed that Hg polluted soil and ECO2 had no significant effect on leaf chlorophyll content and leaf mass per area (LMA) in rice. The contents of soluble sugar and MDA in leaves increased significantly under ECO2. Mercury polluted soil treatment significantly reduced the light saturated CO2 assimilation rate (A(sat)) of rice leaves only at flowering, but not at grain filling. Night ECO2 greatly improved rice leaf water use efficiency (WUE). ECO2 greatly increased seed yield and ear number. In addition, ECO2 did not affect THg accumulation in rice organs, but ECO2 and Hg treatment had a significant interaction on MeHg in seeds, husks and roots.
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