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Journal Article
Metal(loid) uptake and physiological response of Coix lacryma-jobi L. to soil potentially toxic elements in a polluted metal-mining area
2024
Overview
Coix lacryma-jobi
L. is a traditional medicinal plant in east Asia and is an important crop in Guizhou province, southwest China, where there are elevated levels of soil mercury and arsenic (As). Exposure to multiple potentially toxic elements (PTEs) may affect plant accumulation of metal(loid)s and food safety in regions with high geological metal concentrations. Field experiments were conducted to study the effects of PTEs on metal(loid) accumulation and physiological response of
C. lacryma
in different plant parts at three pollution levels. Total root length, number of root tips, number of branches, and number of root crosses increased with increasing pollution level, with increases in highly polluted areas of 44.2, 57.0, 79.6, and 97.2%, respectively, compared to lightly polluted areas. Under multi-element stress the activity of
C. lacryma
antioxidant oxidase showed an increase at low and medium PTE concentrations and inhibition at high concentrations. The As contents were all below the maximum limit of cereal food contaminants in China (GB 2762-2022, As < 0.5 mg kg
−1
). The stems had high Tl bioconcentration factors but the translocation factors from stem to grain were very low, indicating that the stems may be a key plant part restricting Tl transport to the grains.
C. lacryma
increased root retention and reduced the transport effect, thus reducing metal accumulation in the grains.
C. lacryma
adapted to PTE stress through root remodeling and enhanced antioxidant enzyme activities.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
Subject
/ 704/172
/ Arsenic
/ China
/ Grain
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Mercury
/ Mining
/ Science
/ Soil Pollutants - metabolism
/ Stems
