Calcium and potassium supplementation enhanced growth, osmolyte secondary metabolite production, and enzymatic antioxidant machinery in cadmium-exposed chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue APR2016, 2016, Pages

  Ahmad, Parvaiz ^a,b   Abdel Latef, Arafat A ^c,d   Abd Allah, Elsayed F ^a   Hashem, Abeer ^a,e   Sarwat, Maryam ^f   Anjum, Naser A ^g   Gucel, Salih ^h  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b S P COLLEGE   (India)

^c SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d TAIF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e Agricultural Research Center   (Egypt)

^f AMITY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^h NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; Cadmium toxicity; Chickpea; Organic solutes; Oxidative stress; Secondary metabolites; Yield attributes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964834671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00513     Document Type: Article

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