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Variations of Plant Macronutrients and Secondary Metabolites Content in Response to Radionuclides Accumulation
| Hegazy AK1,3*, Al-Rowaily SL2, Kabiel HF3, Faisal M1 and Emam MH3 | |
| 1Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | |
| 2Department of Plant Production, college of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | |
| 3Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt | |
| Corresponding Author : | Hegazy AK Department of Botany and Microbiology College of Science, King Saud University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Tel: +966541792717 Fax: +96614675833 E-mail: akhegazy@yahoo.com |
| Received: December 21, 2012; Accepted: April 15, 2013; Published: April 17, 2013 | |
| Citation: Hegazy AK, Al-Rowaily SL, Kabiel HF, Faisal M, Emam MH (2013) Variations of Plant Macronutrients and Secondary Metabolites Content in Response to Radionuclides Accumulation. J Bioremed Biodeg 4:185. doi:10.4172/2155-6199.1000185 | |
| Copyright: © 2013 Hegazy AK, et al. This is an open-a ccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
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Abstract
Current knowledge on the basic radionuclide tolerance indicates that plants may develop mechanisms preventing the damaging effects of radionuclide stress. The radionuclides content was determined in the Mediterranean coastal black sand soil and in the edible portions of the four food crop plant species, viz., Eruca sativa, Lycopersicon esculentum, Pasidium guajava and Mangifera indica. Biochemical and nutritional constituents were assessed to elucidate the possible effect of radionuclides on the edible portions of the plants. The ability of the four study plant species to accumulate Uranium and Thorium in their edible portions from the coastal black sand soil is higher than that absorbed from the inland agricultural soils. The nutritional constituents were affected by the high concentrations of Uranium and Thorium in the plant tissues.
