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Genotypic variation of the response to cadmium toxicity in Pisum sativum L.
Journal of experimental botany - 1 Jan 2005
Metwally Ashraf, Safronova Vera I, Belimov Andrei A, Dietz Karl-Josef
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This work evaluates the (cor-)relations between selected biochemical responses to toxic Cd and the degree of Cd sensitivity in a set of pea genotypes. Ten genotypes were analysed that differ in their growth response to Cd when expressed as root or shoot tolerance indices (TIs). Concentrations of non-protein thiols (NPTs) and malondialdehyde (MDA), activity of chitinase, peroxidase (POX), and catalase...
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