Chlorophyll as an indicator of the upper critical tissue concentration of cadmium in plants |
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Authors: | K W Burton J B King E Morgan |
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Institution: | 1. Science Department, The Polytechnic of Wales, CF37 1DL, Pontypridd, South Wales, UK
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Abstract: | The upper critical concentration for Cd in wheat plants (Triticum aestivum) grown in Hoagland's solution, was found by the method of Beckett and Davis (1977) to be 44 μg g?1 dry weight, using shoot chlorophyll levels as an indicator of plant health. Chlorophyll compared favorably with other indices of growth and may, in conditions where metal toxicity is manifest as chlorosis, be more accurate and sensitive than shoot dry weights or longest root lengths. It was not possible with the limited number of experiments conducted here to determine, with any degree of confidence, differences in the levels at which chlorophylls a and b were affected. |
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