The present study has been planned to evaluate the impact of seasonal variation in labdane-type diterpenoids namely isoforskolin, forskolin, 1,9-dideoxyforskolin and 1-deoxyforskolin in (roots). The plant samples were harvested in different seasons from our experimental field located at CSIR-NBRI garden, Lucknow (India) and metabolite contents were estimated through validated high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) method. The HPTLC plate was developed in tertiary mobile phase of toluene-ethyl acetate-methanol (8.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeep learning is widely used for the classification of images that have various attributes. Image data are used to extract colour, texture, form, and local features. These features are combined in feature-level image fusion to create a merged remote sensing image.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe toxic and non-essential metalloid arsenic (As) is ubiquitous in the environment with its absorption from the soil into the plants' roots posing detrimental effects on the crop plants and hence the food availability and food security are also threatened. The present study was intended to reduce the As-induced toxicity in rice seedlings (Oryza sativa L.) by phosphate (PO).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSilicon (Si) is a metalloid which is gaining worldwide attention of plant scientists due to its ameliorating impact on plants' growth and development. The beneficial response of Si is observed predominantly under numerous abiotic and biotic stress conditions. However, under favorable conditions, most of the plant can grow without it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe current study was undertaken to elucidate the impact of the herbicide pretilachlor (3 µg ml and 6 µg ml) on cyanobacteria, Nostoc muscorum ATCC 27893 and Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 under three levels of photoacclimatization (suboptimum, 25 µmol photon m s; optimum, 75 µmol photon m s; and supra-optimum, 225 µmol photon m s) by analyzing certain physiological (biomass accumulation, photosynthesis, Chl a fluorescence and respiration) and biochemical parameters (photosynthetic pigments‒ chlorophyll a, carotenoids and phycocyanin; reactive oxygen species‒ O¯, HO, lipid peroxidation; antioxidant system‒ superoxide dismutase, peroxidise, catalase and glutathione-S-transferase). The light conditioning played the most prominent role in deciding the extent of herbicide toxicity on both the tested cyanobacteria as the maximum toxicity was observed in suboptimum light acclimatized cyanobacterial cells corroborated by the least growth in the same cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe supplementation of plant hormones may enhance the tolerance capacity of plants against certain environmental stresses by increasing their physiological functioning and detoxification capacity. To answer the question that whether a phytohormone 'kinetin' (KN, 6-furfuylaminopurine), one of the artificial cytokinins could ameliorate the cadmium induced toxicity in tomato seedlings, the effect of KN was assessed in differentially cadmium (Cd: 3mgkg sand and Cd: 9mgkg sand) intoxicated tomato seedlings by estimating the changes in reactive oxygen species (ROS, viz. superoxide radical and HO generation) and probable alteration in photosystem II photochemistry, ascorbate-glutathione cycle enzymes and their metabolites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn order to know the impact of elevated level of UV-B on arsenic stressed Helianthus annuus L. var. DRSF-113 plants, certain physiological (growth - root and shoot lengths, their fresh masses and leaf area; photosynthetic competence and respiration) and biochemical parameters (pigments - Chl a and b, Car, anthocyanin and flavonoids; reactive oxygen species - superoxide radicals, HO; reactive carbonyl group, electrolyte leakage; antioxidants - superoxide dismutase, peroxidise, catalase, glutathione-S-transferase, proline) of their seedlings were analysed under the simultaneous exposures of two arsenic doses (6mgkg soil, As; and 12mgkg soil, As) and two UV-B doses (1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnderstanding the adverse impact of nanoparticles in crop plants has emerged as one of the most interesting fields of plant research. Therefore, this study has been conducted to investigate the impact of silver nanoparticles (AgNps) on Pisium sativum seedlings. Besides this, we have also tested whether nitric oxide (NO) is capable of reducing toxicity of AgNps or not.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present study assessed the comparative responses on the specific growth rate, nitrogen metabolism and enzymes associated with nitrogen metabolism in two nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria-Nostoc muscorum and Phormidium foveolarum exposed to two UV-B doses (low; UV-BL: 0.5472kJm(-2) and high; UV-BH: 5.472kJm(-2)) and two doses of the insecticide chlorpyrifos (O,O-diethyl O-3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridyl phosphorothioate; low i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present study is aimed at assessing the extent of arsenic (As) toxicity under three different light intensities-optimum (400 μmole photon m(-2) s(-1)), sub-optimum (225 μmole photon m(-2) s(-1)), and low (75 μmole photon m(-2) s(-1))-exposed to Helianthus annuus L. var. DRSF-113 seedlings by examining various physiological and biochemical parameters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlant Physiol Biochem
October 2013
Hydroponic experiments were conducted to investigate whether exogenous addition of nitric oxide (NO) as sodium nitroprusside (SNP) alleviates arsenic (As) toxicity in Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb. seedlings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffects of low (UV-B(L); 0.1 μmol m(-2) s(-1)) and high (UV-B(H); 1.0 μmol m(-2) s(-1)) fluence rates of UV-B radiation on growth, oxidative stress and ascorbate-glutathione cycle (AsA-GSH cycle) were investigated in two cyanobacteria viz.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study deals with the comparative responses of the two cyanobacteria viz. Nostoc muscorum and Phormidium foveolarum against single and combined doses of low (UV-B(L,) 0.1 μmol m(-2) s(-1)) and high (UV-B(H), 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present study is aimed at investigating the role of growth irradiance in determining the extent of mercury (Hg) toxicity on various physiological parameters viz. growth, pigment contents, photosynthesis, respiration, (14)CO(2) fixation, photosynthetic electron transport, photorespiration and enzyme activity of cyanobacterium Nostoc muscorum. A general decline was observed in all these parameters with increasing concentration of Hg except for carotenoids content and respiratory activity which exhibited significant enhancement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the present study, degree of tolerance and tolerance strategies of two paddy field cyanobacteria viz. Nostoc muscorum and Phormidium foveolarum against oxyfluorfen (10 and 20 μg ml(-1)) and UV-B (7.2 kJ m(-2)d(-1)) stress were investigated.
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