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- Title
Toxic Influence of Key Organic Soil Pollutants on the Total Flavonoid Content in Wheat Leaves.
- Authors
Copaciu, Florina; Opriş, Ocsana; Niinemets, Ülo; Copolovici, Lucian
- Abstract
Textile dyes and antibiotics are two main classes of environmental pollutants which could be found in soil and water. Those persistent pollutants can have a negative influence on plant growth and development and affect the level of secondary metabolites. In the present work, we studied the effect of textile dyes and antibiotics on total leaf flavonoid contents in wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.). Contaminant solutions were applied daily using concentrations of 0.5 mg L (lower) and 1.5 mg L (higher dose) for either 1 or 2 weeks. We observed that exposure to the higher concentration of textile dyes resulted in a reduction in flavonoid content while antibiotics enhanced flavonoid contents at lower doses of exposure and reduced at higher doses of exposure. These results suggest that diffuse chronic pollution by artificial organic contaminants can importantly alter antioxidative capacity of plants.
- Subjects
ANTIBIOTIC residues; TEXTILE dyeing; ABIOTIC stress; POLLUTANTS; FLAVONOIDS; WHEAT
- Publication
Water, Air & Soil Pollution, 2016, Vol 227, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
0049-6979
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11270-016-2888-x