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| Author(s): |
Lucas Anjos Souza
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia |
| Defense date: | 2014-02-28 |
| Examining board members: |
Ricardo Antunes Azevedo;
Claudia Regina Baptista Haddad;
Renato Rodrigues Ferreira;
Liliane Santos de Camargos;
Fernando Angelo Piotto
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| Advisor: | Ricardo Antunes Azevedo |
| Abstract | |
One of the major problems of environmental pollution is the contamination of soil and water bodies with heavy metals. Some of these elements do not have metabolic functions and are extremely toxic and can lead organisms to death. With the increase of industrial activities and inappropriate management of waste containing these elements, the amount and availability of heavy metals in the soil greatly increased, thus becoming a serious problem. Cadmium (Cd) is a heavy metal that has no metabolic function and is highly toxic. Engineering techniques for remediate heavy metals contaminated soils are used, but usually bring other environmental impacts. Thus, phytoremediation is a technique that uses plants for remediating heavy metals contaminated soil, using the plant ability to uptake and accumulate the toxic element in plant tissues, thus being characterized as an environmentally friendly option. However, few plants that produce high amounts of biomass have been studied to be used in this phytotechnology. Thus, this study aimed to characterize the response of Dolichos lablab L. to Cd, a leguminous plant used as forage that is tolerant salt and drought stresses. We performed the evaluation of the potential use for phytoremediation of Cd-contaminated soil, the characterization of the antioxidant pathway response and protein profile. We observed that Dolichos lablab L. can be used for Cd phytoestabilization in soils with a moderate degree of contamination, up to 5 mg kg-1; we also observed that the enzymatic antioxidant response is tissue specific, being root response more efficient than that of foliar; by the proteome analysis of Dolichos lablab L. under Cd stress, we observed that enzymes related to carbohydrate and energetic metabolisms are, frequently, up regulated and that proteins related to abiotic stress response are up regulated in both roots and leaves (AU) | |