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Response of antioxidant enzymes in Nicotiana tabacum clones during phytoextraction of heavy metals.
Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 16, 573-581 (2009)
Tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum, is a widely used model plant for growth on heavy-metal-contaminated sites. Its high biomass and deep rooting system make it interesting for phytoextraction. In the present study, we investigated the antioxidative activities and glutathione-dependent enzymes of different tobacco clones optimized for better Cd and Zn accumulation in order to characterize their performance in the field. The improved heavy metal resistance also makes the investigated tobacco clones interesting for understanding the plant defense enzyme system in general. Freshly harvested plant material (N. tabacum leaves) was used to investigate the antioxidative cascade in plants grown on heavy metal contaminated sites with and without amendments of different ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate fertilizers. Plants were grown on heavily polluted soils in north-east Switzerland. Leaves were harvested at the field site and directly deep frozen in liquid N-2. Studies were concentrated on the antioxidative enzymes of the Halliwell-Asada cycle, and spectrophotometric measurements of catalase (CAT, EC 1.11.1.6), ascorbate peroxidase (APX, EC 1.11.1.11), superoxide dismutase (SOD, EC 1.15.1.1), glutathione peroxidase (GPX, EC 1.11.1.9), glutathione reductase (GR, EC 1.6.4.2), glutathione S-transferase (GST, EC 2.5.1.18) were performed. We tried to explain the relationship between fertilizer amendments and the activity of the enzymatic defense systems. When tobacco (N. tabacum) plants originating from different mutants were grown under field conditions with varying fertilizer application, the uptake of cadmium and zinc from soil increased with increasing biomass. Depending on Cd and Zn uptake, several antioxidant enzymes showed significantly different activities. Whereas SOD and CAT were usually elevated, several other enzymes, and isoforms of GST were strongly inhibited. Heavy metal uptake represents severe stress to plants, and specific antioxidative enzymes are induced at the cost of more general reactions of the Halliwell-Asada cycle. In well-supplied plants, the glutathione level remains more or less unchanged. The lack of certain glutathione S-transferases upon exposure to heavy metals might be problematic in cases when organic pollutants coincide with heavy metal pollution. When planning phytoremediation of sites, mixed pollution scenarios have to be foreseen and plants should be selected according to both, their stress resistance and hyperaccumulative capacity.
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Publikationstyp
Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Schlagwörter
Antioxidant enzymes; Detoxification; Fertilizer amendment; Glutathione S-transferase; Heavy metals; Nicotiana tabacum; glutathione-s-transferases; superoxide-dismutase; lipid-peroxidation; oxidative stress; barley leaves; active oxygen; cadmium; plants; toxicity; zinc
Sprache
englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2009
HGF-Berichtsjahr
2009
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0944-1344
e-ISSN
1614-7499
Zeitschrift
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Quellenangaben
Band: 16,
Heft: 5,
Seiten: 573-581
Verlag
Springer
Begutachtungsstatus
Peer reviewed
Institut(e)
Research Unit Microbe-Plant Interactions (AMP)
POF Topic(s)
20402 - Sustainable Plant Production
Forschungsfeld(er)
Environmental Sciences
PSP-Element(e)
G-504600-002
PubMed ID
19440744
Scopus ID
70349572652
Erfassungsdatum
2009-12-31