HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2022, Vol. 61 ›› Issue (20): 82-91.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2022.20.016

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The physiological response of Paulownia fortunei 1201 seedlings under plumbum and cadmium stress

ZHU Xiu-hong, ZHANG Ji-zhong, LI Zhe-jing, ZHANG Shu-jing, RU Guang-xin   

  1. College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, China
  • Received:2022-05-16 Online:2022-10-25 Published:2022-11-23

Abstract: A series of changes of seedling biomass, physiological and biochemical indexes and subcellular distribution of Paulownia fortunei 1201 under plumbum and cadmium stress were studied by hydroponic experiment. The results showed that the effect of plumbum and cadmium stress on seedling biomass of Paulownia fortunei 1201 was promoting at low level and suppressing at high level. Paulownia fortunei 1201 seedlings had stronger absorption and enrichment of cadmium than plumbum, and the heavy metal content in each part of the seedlings was in the order of root > leaf > stem. The bioenrichment coefficient and transport coefficient in each part of the seedlings showed a downward trend. The root of Paulownia fortunei 1201 seedlings played a role of buffer and protective barrier, becoming the main part of absorption and enrichment of plumbum and cadmium. Under plumbum and cadmium stress, super oxide dismutase(SOD) activities of Paulownia fortunei 1201 seedling roots decreased first and then increased with the increasing of stress concentration, while SOD activities of Paulownia fortunei 1201 seedling leaves had no significant change. Leaf catalase(CAT) activities increased first and then decreased with the increase of stress concentration. Peroxidase(POD) activities were positively correlated with stress concentration. Soluble sugar contents increased firstly and then decreased with the increasce of stress concentration, and the soluble protein contents increased first and then decreased, and free proline contents were positively correlated with stress concentration. With the increase of stress concentration, non-protein thiols compounds(NPT) contents increased first and then decreased, glutathione(GSH) contents decreased, phytochelatins(PCs) contents showed more complicated changes, but generally increased first and then decreased, and the contents of non-protein thiols compounds in leaves were significantly higher than those in roots. The accumulation of Cd2+ and Pb2+ in subcellular distribution was positively correlated with stress concentration.

Key words: Paulownia fortunei 1201, biomass, antioxidant enzyme, non-protein thiols compounds, subcellular distribution

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