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BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY
Volume 107, Issue 2, Pages 320-326Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s00128-021-03283-8
Keywords
Triticum aestivum L; Cd; GSH; GSH synthesize genes; Cd transporter genes
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31701345, U1704110]
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The application of exogenous GSH can significantly increase wheat growth performance and reduce cadmium toxicity. GSH can alleviate cadmium toxicity in wheat by regulating the expression of related genes or suppressing the expression of cadmium transporter genes.
Cadmium (Cd), a toxic heavy metal, is harmful to plants and human health. Glutathione (GSH) could alleviate Cd toxicity of plant species, whereas its mechanism responsible for wheat remains poorly understood. Here, we found that exogenous GSH application significantly increased the fresh and dry weight, root elongation, chlorophyll contents, while decreased the contents of malondialdehyde (MDA) and GSH, and translocation factor of Cd compared with Cd treatment. Moreover, GSH application significantly increased activities of antioxidant enzymes and expression of related genes, which involved in GSH synthesis, especially in roots. In addition, we found that GSH application suppressed Cd-induced expression of metal transporter genes TaNramp1, TaNramp5, TaHMA2, TaHMA3, TaLCT1 and TaIRT2 in roots. Taken together, our results suggested that GSH could alleviate Cd toxicity in wheat by increasing GSH synthesis gene expression or suppressing Cd transporter genes expression, and further affecting Cd uptake and translocation in wheat plants.
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