Journal article

Publication year: 1997

Pages: 505-510

Journal: Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science

Volume number: 160

Issue number: 5

ISSN: 0044-3263

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.19971600411

Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag

Abstract: 
Linseed is able to accumulate considerably high concentrations of Cd in generative organs, the dietary critical value of 0.3 mu g Cd/g seed often being exceeded. Differences between genotypes of linseed in this respect, however, have been observed but the underlying mechanisms responsible for these differences are unknown. The aim of the present work was to identify these mechanisms by studying the Cd accumulation of the linseed genotypes Antares and McGregor which differ in their ability to accumulate Cd in the seeds. Cultivar Antares is a high and cv. McGregor a low Cd accumulator which was confirmed in a pot experiment. It was found that the differences between these genotypes mere Cd-specific and were caused neither by single seed weight nor by Cd translocation into the shoot. The distribution pattern of Cd within mature capsules between the pericarp and the seeds differed from that of Ca which was used as a phloem-immobile reference ion. From these results Ne conclude that dd was translocated from the pericarp into the seeds via the phloem. This conclusion was supported by direct Cd determination in collected phloem sap from linseed stems. As sources of seed-Cd we identified the pericarps of capsules and the leaves. The genotype differences concerning the Cd concentrations in the seeds may be explained in terms of differences in phloem translocation of Cd.

Harvard Citation style: Becher, M., Wörner, A. and Schubert, S. (1997) Cd translocation into generative organs of linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.), Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science = Zeitschrift für Pflanzenernährung und Bodenkunde, 160(5), pp. 505-510. https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.19971600411

APA Citation style: Becher, M., Wörner, A., & Schubert, S. (1997). Cd translocation into generative organs of linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.). Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science = Zeitschrift für Pflanzenernährung und Bodenkunde. 160(5), 505-510. https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.19971600411