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Chlorophyll Fluorescence Imaging-Based Duckweed Phenotyping to Assess Acute Phytotoxic Effects

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PLANTS-BASEL
卷 10, 期 12, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants10122763

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chlorophyll fluorescence imaging; PAM fluorometry; duckweed test; Spirodela polyrhiza; phytotoxicity; hormesis

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  1. National Research, Development and Innovation Office-NKFIH-of the Hungarian Ministry for Innovation and Technology [OTKA FK 134296]

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This study compared the sensitivity of different chlorophyll fluorescence parameters and found that light-adapted parameters are generally more sensitive than dark-adapted parameters. It is suggested to prioritize light-adapted parameters as endpoints in phytotoxicity assays. Additionally, the study showed that changes in chlorophyll fluorescence parameters may not necessarily reflect plant growth responses, so caution should be exercised when interpreting chlorophyll fluorescence-based endpoints as general proxies for phytotoxic effects.
Duckweeds (Lemnaceae species) are extensively used models in ecotoxicology, and chlorophyll fluorescence imaging offers a sensitive and high throughput platform for phytotoxicity assays with these tiny plants. However, the vast number of potentially applicable chlorophyll fluorescence-based test endpoints makes comparison and generalization of results hard among different studies. The present study aimed to jointly measure and compare the sensitivity of various chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in Spirodela polyrhiza (giant duckweed) plants exposed to nickel, chromate (hexavalent chromium) and sodium chloride for 72 h, respectively. The photochemistry of Photosystem II in both dark- and light-adapted states of plants was assessed via in vivo chlorophyll fluorescence imaging method. Our results indicated that the studied parameters responded with very divergent sensitivity, highlighting the importance of parallelly assessing several chlorophyll fluorescence parameters. Generally, the light-adapted parameters were more sensitive than the dark-adapted ones. Thus, the former ones might be the preferred endpoints in phytotoxicity assays. Fv/Fm, i.e., the most extensively reported parameter literature-wise, proved to be the least sensitive endpoint; therefore, future studies might also consider reporting Fv/Fo, as its more responsive analogue. The tested toxicants induced different trends in the basic chlorophyll fluorescence parameters and, at least partly, in relative proportions of different quenching processes, suggesting that a basic distinction of water pollutants with different modes of action might be achievable by this method. We found definite hormetic patterns in responses to several endpoints. Hormesis occurred in the concentration ranges where the applied toxicants resulted in strong growth inhibition in longer-term exposures of the same duckweed clone in previous studies. These findings indicate that changes in the photochemical efficiency of plants do not necessarily go hand in hand with growth responses, and care should be taken when one exclusively interprets chlorophyll fluorescence-based endpoints as general proxies for phytotoxic effects.

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