Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2025, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (11): 2283-2292.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.20240960

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Cadmium accumulation characteristics and tolerance mechanism of 2 meadowsweet varieties

TAN Xinrui(), TANG Min, LIU Yan, WANG Meixian()   

  1. Beijing Laboratory of Urban and Rural Ecological Environment, National Engineering Research Center for Floriculture, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2024-11-09 Online:2025-11-25 Published:2025-12-08

Abstract:

To investigate the cadmium (Cd) accumulation characteristics and tolerance mechanisms of Spiraea japonica Little Princess (abbreviated as SL) and Spiraea×bumalda Coccimea (abbreviated as SC), a pot experiment with simulated Cd contamination was conducted. The growth, physiological indexes, as well as the accumulation, distribution, and translocation characteristics of Cd in the two meadowsweet varieties were studied under stress conditions with different Cd contents (25, 50, 100, 200 mg·kg-1, denoted as T1 to T4 treatments in sequence). The results showed that, compared with the control group (CK) without Cd addition, the T2-T4 treatments significantly (p<0.05) reduced the total plant biomass of SC by 22.4%-53.0%. Moreover, all Cd-added treatments significantly decreased the chlorophyll content in the leaves of the two meadowsweet varieties. Under the T4 treatment, the relative electrical conductivity in the leaves of SL and SC was 1.17 times and 1.38 times of CK, respectively, while the malondialdehyde (MDA) content was 1.42 times and 1.92 times of CK, respectively. Between the two varieties, both the Cd tolerance index and bioconcentration factor of SC were lower than those of SL. The distribution ratio of Cd in the two meadowsweet varieties followed the order of root > stem > leaf. At the subcellular level, Cd was mainly accumulated in the cell wall, accounting for 59.12%-71.10% and 57.05%-62.47% of the total Cd under T1-T4 treatments in SC and SL, respectively. In terms of chemical forms, Cd mainly existed in the NaCl-extractable form, with proportions of 46.61%-57.86% and 60.51%-67.65% under T1-T4 treatments in SC and SL, respectively.

Key words: cadmium, accumulation characteristic, subcellular distribution, chemical forms, meadowsweet

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