28-Homobrassinolide protects chickpea (Cicer arietinum) from cadmium toxicity by stimulating antioxidants

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-66

  Hasan, S A ^a   Hayat, S ^a   Ali, B ^a   Ahmad, A ^a  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Brassinosteroids; Cadmium; Growth; Nitrogenase; Proline

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CARBOHYDRATES; CULTIVATION; GROWTH KINETICS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; TOXICITY;

BRASSINOSTEROIDS; NITROGENASE; PROLINE; SEEDLINGS;

SEED;

ANTIOXIDANT; BRASSINOLIDE; CADMIUM; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; CATALASE; LEGHEMOGLOBIN; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN; PEROXIDASE; PROLINE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AMINO ACID; ANTIOXIDANT; CADMIUM; CARBOHYDRATE; CHLOROPHYLL; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INOCULATION; LEGUME; PIGMENT; RHIZOBACTERIUM; TOXICITY;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHICKPEA; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; DRY MASS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; INOCULATION; LEAF GAS EXCHANGE; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT STRESS; PROTEIN CONTENT; RHIZOBIUM; SANDY LOAM; SEEDLING;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOMASS; CADMIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALASE; CHLOROPHYLL; CHOLESTANONES; CICER; HUMANS; LEGHEMOGLOBIN; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PEROXIDASE; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT LEAVES; PROLINE; RHIZOBIUM; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SEEDS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SYMBIOSIS;

CICER ARIETINUM; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 36549041378     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.03.006     Document Type: Article

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