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Increasing human and industrial activities lead to heavy metal pollution. Heavy metal chromium (Cr) is considered to be a serious environmental contaminant for the biota. Phytotoxic effects of Cr were studied in wheat plants. Growth parameters were largely inhibited as a result of disturbances in the plant cell metabolism in response to Cr toxicity. Chromium toxicity led to decline in a number of active reaction centres of PSII, rate of electron transport, and change in PSII heterogeneity. Chromium did not cause any change in heterogeneity of the reducing side. A significant change in antenna size heterogeneity of PSII occurred in response to Cr toxicity. Chromium seems to have extensive effects on the light harvesting complex of PSII.
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Abbreviations
- ABS:
-
absorption
- Chl a :
-
chlorophyll a
- CS:
-
cross section
- DCMU:
-
3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethyl urea
- Di0 :
-
dissipation
- DM:
-
dry mass
- ET0 :
-
electron transport
- F0 :
-
initial fluorescence
- FM :
-
maximum fluorescence
- FM:
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fresh mass
- FV :
-
variable fluorescence
- HM:
-
heavy metal
- OJ, JI, IP:
-
phases of Chl a fluorescence induction curve
- PEA:
-
plant efficiency analyser
- PQ:
-
plastoquinone
- RC:
-
reaction centre
- TR0 :
-
trapping
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Acknowledgements: S. Mathur thanks to University Grant Commission, (UGC), India for Post Doctoral Fellowship for Women-SAII (PDFWM-2014-15-GEMAD-23945). A. Jajoo thanks Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India (dst) for the project (DST/RUS/RFBR/P-173). We are also thankful to Prof. R.J. Strasser and R. Maldonado-Rodriguez for gifting Biolyzer HP 3 software. “© The Author(s).” This article is published with open access at springerlink.bibliotecabuap.elogim.com
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Mathur, S., Kalaji, H.M. & Jajoo, A. Investigation of deleterious effects of chromium phytotoxicity and photosynthesis in wheat plant. Photosynthetica 54, 185–192 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11099-016-0198-6
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