Claim · model-written summary
At the lowest cadmium concentration, IAA, salicylic acid, proteins, lipids and sugars decreased about 50%.
- Treatment
- lowest concentratione0
- Outcome
- IAA, salicylic acid, proteins, lipid and sugar contentse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- 50%e0
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Verbatim
e0“growth and stress related metabolites like IAA, salicylic acid, proteins, lipid and sugar contents decreased approximately by 50% at the lowest concentration while reaching 70 to 77% at the highest concentration of cadmium.”
t0“maize”
Title
The deteriorating effects of cadmium accumulation on the yield and quality of maize crops
Naila Shah; Muhammad Irshad; Anwar Hussain; et al. South African Journal of Botany 2023. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2023.07.050
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Cadmium significantly reduced maize root and shoot length and fresh and dry weight.
- Intervention effect Cadmium significantly reduced maize chlorophyll contents.
- Intervention effect Higher cadmium reduced catalase activity by 92%.
- Intervention effect At the highest cadmium concentration, those metabolite contents fell by 70 to 77%.
- Observation After 60 days, maize parts accumulated approximately 20 to 25 mg/kg cadmium.
- Observation At least 50% of accumulated cadmium was translocated to shoots.
- Observation Cadmium accumulation was greatest in stems, then leaves, then seeds.
- Observation Maize seed cadmium concentration ranged from 2 to 4 mg/kg.