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Effect of nickel and grafting combination on yield, fruit quality, antioxidative enzyme activities, lipid peroxidation, and mineral composition of tomato

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Title Effect of nickel and grafting combination on yield, fruit quality, antioxidative enzyme activities, lipid peroxidation, and mineral composition of tomato
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Creator P. Kumar, Y. Rouphael, M. Cardarell and G. Colla
 
Subject antioxidant enzymes / MDA / nickel toxicity / rootstocks / Solanum lycopersicum L.
 
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Soil contamination by heavy metals negatively affects crop productivity, besides representing
serious threat to human health. Grafting tomato onto appropriate rootstocks may raise Ni tolerance
through limiting heavy metal uptake by roots and/or its translocation to the shoot and by detoxification.
A greenhouse experiment was conducted to determine the influence of long-term Ni
exposure (0, 25, or 50 mM) on crop productivity, fruit quality, leaf chlorophyll content, fluorescence,
electrolyte leakage, catalase (CAT), ascorbate peroxidase (APX), and guaiacol peroxidase
(GPX) activities in leaf, proline content, membrane lipid peroxidation, and mineral composition
of tomato plants cv. Ikram, either self-grafted or grafted onto three rootstocks: Black Beauty,
Unifort, and Maxifort. Significant reduction in yield was observed in response to an increase in Ni
concentration with more detrimental effects at 50 mM Ni. The fruit dry matter and total soluble
solids content increased under severe Ni stress. The depression of crop performance under Ni
toxicity was attributed to a decrease in leaf pigments (SPAD index), efficiency of PSII, macroand
microelements, and increase in lipid peroxidation and membrane damage. Plants grafted
onto tomato rootstocks Maxifort and Unifort exhibited higher chlorophyll content, photochemical
activity of PSII, antioxidant activity of APX and GPX, lower accumulation of MDA, and a better
nutritional status (higher Ca and Fe, and lower Ni) in the leaf tissues in comparison with selfgrafted
plants and those grafted onto Black Beauty. Plants grafted onto tomato rootstocks Unifort
and especially Maxifort could minimize the nickel toxicity by improving nutritional status and detoxification
processes.
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Date 2018-11-14T06:46:22Z
2018-11-14T06:46:22Z
2015-10-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/Publication/handle/123456789/11108
 
Language English
 
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Publisher WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim