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Individual and Combined Influences of Copper, Cadmium and Arsenic on the Total Phenolic and Flavonoid Contents in Various Tissues of Hydrocotyle umbellata L.
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: Received: 28 June 2023 / Approved: 28 June 2023 / Online: 29 June 2023 (09:35:49 CEST)
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Saeed, S.H.; Gillani, G.M.S.; Gazder, U.; Shaheen, S.; Almutairi, K.F.; Avila-Quezada, G.D.; Hashem, A.; Abd_Allah, E.F.; Mahmood, Q. Individual and Combined Influences of Copper, Cadmium and Arsenic on the Total Phenolic and Flavonoid Contents in Various Tissues of Hydrocotyle umbellata L.. Preprints2023, 2023062017. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.2017.v1
Saeed, S.H.; Gillani, G.M.S.; Gazder, U.; Shaheen, S.; Almutairi, K.F.; Avila-Quezada, G.D.; Hashem, A.; Abd_Allah, E.F.; Mahmood, Q. Individual and Combined Influences of Copper, Cadmium and Arsenic on the Total Phenolic and Flavonoid Contents in Various Tissues of Hydrocotyle umbellata L.. Preprints 2023, 2023062017. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.2017.v1
Saeed, S.H.; Gillani, G.M.S.; Gazder, U.; Shaheen, S.; Almutairi, K.F.; Avila-Quezada, G.D.; Hashem, A.; Abd_Allah, E.F.; Mahmood, Q. Individual and Combined Influences of Copper, Cadmium and Arsenic on the Total Phenolic and Flavonoid Contents in Various Tissues of Hydrocotyle umbellata L.. Preprints2023, 2023062017. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.2017.v1
APA Style
Saeed, S.H., Gillani, G.M.S., Gazder, U., Shaheen, S., Almutairi, K.F., Avila-Quezada, G.D., Hashem, A., Abd_Allah, E.F., & Mahmood, Q. (2023). Individual and Combined Influences of Copper, Cadmium and Arsenic on the Total Phenolic and Flavonoid Contents in Various Tissues of <em>Hydrocotyle umbellata </em>L.. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.2017.v1
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Saeed, S.H., Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah and Qaisar Mahmood. 2023 "Individual and Combined Influences of Copper, Cadmium and Arsenic on the Total Phenolic and Flavonoid Contents in Various Tissues of <em>Hydrocotyle umbellata </em>L." Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.2017.v1
Abstract
Heavy metals toxicity is a grave environmental issue in contemporary times. Phytoremediation is economic, effective and ecofriendly approach to decontaminate and remediate metal contaminated areas. Phenolic and Flavonoid content are important abiotic stress markers. The individual and combined impacts of toxiferous metals Arsenic (As), Cadmium (Cd) and (Copper) Cu were employed in recent studies to investigate their effect on Total flavonoids content (TFC) and total phenolic content (TPC) in various parts of Hydrocotyle umbellata L. to explore the role of plant in abating metal contamination. Folin- ciocalteu and AlCl 3 methods were used for investigating TPC and TFC respectively. Two-way ANOVA and CART model were employed for statistical analysis. Highest TPC was examined in decreasing order as leaf & gt; stem & gt; root in case of all the metals. Whereas highest TFC was found in all plant parts when subjected to As toxicity, and the lowest TFC was found in stem of the plant in respect to Cu toxicity. There was significant effect on TPC on plant part when subjected to Cu and As stress, but so significance was observed in plant part in case of Cd and combined metal stress. Treatment concentration had no significant effect on TPC when subjected to unique impact of all the three metals but had significant effect in case of combined metal stress. Similarly, in case of TFC no significant effect was recorded in case of plant part in all the stress types. But treatment amount has significant impact on Cd and combined metal stress. Metal type has significant effect on TPC and TFC. Whereas plant part has significant impact on TPC but non-significant values were observed on TFC in this case. This study epitomizes TPC and TFC in plants as effective and viable tool to pertain their role in phytoremediation against metal contamination. Therefore H. umbellata L. can be exerted for successful assemblage and decontamination of Cd, Cu and As in different plant parts.
Keywords
Hydrocotyle; metal toxicity; phytoremediation; phenolics; flavonoids
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
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