biologia plantarum

Biologia plantarum 48:453-455, 2004 | DOI: 10.1023/B:BIOP.0000041103.17285.26

Alleviation of Cadmium Toxicity by Naphthenate Treatment

S. Kevrešan¹, V. Ćirin-Novta², K. Kuhajda², J. Kandrač¹, N. Petrović³, Lj. Grbović², Ž. Kevrešan⁴

¹ Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, India e-mail

² Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, India

³ Faculty of Agriculture and Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, India

⁴ Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, India

The work is concerned with the effect of low concentrations (10^-7 mol dm^-3) of sodium naphthenate on total content of Cd and its particular forms in the intercellular space and inside cells, as well as on some physiological and biochemical parameters of young soybean plants grown in the presence of 1 mmol dm^-3 solution of cadmium chloride. Presence of naphthenate reduced in average by 40 % content total and intracellular Cd in root, stem and leaves and alleviated the harmful effect of Cd on activity of nitrate reductase and content of photosynthetic pigments.

Keywords: soybean; intracellular Cd; intercellular Cd; detoxification

Subjects: cadmium, toxicity alleviation by naphthenate; carotenoids, cadmium detoxification; chlorophyll, cadmium toxicity, detoxification; detoxification, cadmium; Glycine max; heavy metals; naphthenic acids; soybean, cadmium distribution

Published: September 1, 2004  Show citation