
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown
Опубликована: Сен. 23, 2024
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are one of the most common groups pollutants that have toxic and carcinogenic effects. Black alder trees (Alnus glutinosa L.) been used to remediate contaminated soils from industrial heavy metals; however, their usefulness for PAH remediation is unclear. In this study, we examined response seedlings four half-sib families (genetic sharing same mother but different fathers) exposure PAHs-phenanthrene, pyrene, naphthalene, fluoranthene-each at three concentrations. Plant growth parameters were evaluated, concentration secondary metabolites antioxidant activity measured. The results morphological showed in general, higher concentrations had a more negative effect on tree vitality than lower (shoot reduction by up 76%). Each family also exhibited distinct responses total phenol content (TPC) when exposed varying pollutants, with reductions TPC ranging 4 52% across genetic lineages. Enzyme varied between families, concentrations; example, while phenanthrene generally increased glutathione S-transferase (GST) 13-99-1K 38-61-7K it unexpectedly decreased GST levels 23% 29% 26-133-6K 41-65-7K respectively, emphasizing nuanced divergent enzymatic observed study. Further metabolite analysis revealed variations way PAHs impact defense mechanism groups-prioritizing either or non-enzymatic systems. To sum up, analyzing effects alders can prove advantageous identifying efficient black phytoremediation purposes.
Язык: Английский