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Table 1 Growth and cadmium accumulation by durum wheat seedlings

From: Cadmium uptake and partitioning in durum wheat during grain filling

 

Tissue

Low-Cd

 

High-Cd

Dry weight (g plant-1)

Whole plant

0.72 (0.02)

 

0.70 (0.03)

 

Shoot

0.52 (0.02)

 

0.49 (0.02)

 

Root

0.20 (0.01)

 

0.21 (0.02)

Cd content (μg plant-1)

Whole plant

1.19 (0.05)

 

1.24 (0.07)

 

Shoot

0.29 (0.02)

***

0.51 (0.03)

 

Root

0.90 (0.03)

*

0.73 (0.05)

Cd concentration (μg g-1)

Whole plant

1.64 (0.03)

*

1.78 (0.04)

 

Shoot

0.55 (0.01)

***

1.04 (0.02)

 

Root

4.51 (0.16)

***

3.54 (0.07)

  1. Dry weight, Cd content, and Cd concentration of seedlings of low- and high-Cd near-isogenic lines of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum) grown for 21 d in chelator-buffered nutrient culture containing 0.5 μM Cd (0.014 nM free activity). Significant differences between near-isogenic lines as determined by ANOVA (F-test) are indicated by * (P ≤ 0.05) and *** (P ≤ 0.001). Numbers in parenthesis are SE (n = 5).
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BMC Plant Biology

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