Volume 12, Issue 2, July 2015, Pages 384–389
Sumaira Ikram1 and Farrukh Javed2
1 Department of Botany, Faculty of Science and Technology, Government College Women University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
2 Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, (38040), Pakistan
Original language: English
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Cadmium (Cd) is so perilous pollutant for living things when the certain threshold concentrations exceeded. Barley can accumulate higher concentrations of Cd but show genotypic differences in Cd uptake, moreover, the response to Cd have not been clearly determined yet. Exogenous use of thiourea ameliorates the stress conditions. The objective of this work was to determine the alleviation of various cadmium levels (Cd 0, 100, 500 and 1000 and 1500
Author Keywords: Thiourea, cadmium toxicity, cereal, growth.
Sumaira Ikram1 and Farrukh Javed2
1 Department of Botany, Faculty of Science and Technology, Government College Women University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
2 Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, (38040), Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Cadmium (Cd) is so perilous pollutant for living things when the certain threshold concentrations exceeded. Barley can accumulate higher concentrations of Cd but show genotypic differences in Cd uptake, moreover, the response to Cd have not been clearly determined yet. Exogenous use of thiourea ameliorates the stress conditions. The objective of this work was to determine the alleviation of various cadmium levels (Cd 0, 100, 500 and 1000 and 1500
Author Keywords: Thiourea, cadmium toxicity, cereal, growth.
How to Cite this Article
Sumaira Ikram and Farrukh Javed, “Cadmium Stress Alleviation by Thiourea in Barley,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 384–389, July 2015.
