Effect of lithium on seed germination and plant growth of Amaranthus viridis
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Lithium is one of the trace elements essential for the human body. The use of Li-based products has increased tremendously, leading to higher consumption patterns and the generation of lithum-based wastes. A higher concentration of lithium leads to the contamination of soil and water bodies. Lithium enters the food chain through the plant pathway. The food chain becomes contaminated with agricultural products produced on lithium-contaminated soil. Owing to this scenario, the present study is focused on studying the effect of lithium on the germination and growth of Amaranthus viridis. Germination studies were conducted in petri dishes, and the rate germination was 95% at control and 10 ppm. At higher concentrations, the rate of germination was 73% at 50 ppm, 57% at 75 ppm and 41% at 100 ppm. Pot experiments were conducted for 51 days using lithium-amended soil from 10 to 100 ppm. Pot experiments revealed that, at higher concentrations, lithium promoted the length and weight of the plant from 1.122 g/plant in the control to 2.415 g/plant at 100 ppm. The stress tolerance index was calculated for the length and dry weight of the roots and shoots, respectively. High stress tolerance at root and shoot biomass led to an increase in the biomass of the plant, which promoted the accumulation of lithium in plant parts. These results concluded that lithium stimulated plant growth at lower concentrations and increased biomass at higher concentrations, which was confirmed through the calculation of the stress tolerance index.
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Amaranthus viridis, Lithium, Metabolism, Pot experiments, Stress tolerance index
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Gardea-Torresdey J, Peralta-Videa J, Montes M, De la Rosa G. & Corral-Diaz B. (2004).Bioaccumulation of cadmium, chromium and copper by Convolvulus arvensis L.: impact on plant growth and uptake ofnutritional elements. Bioresource Technology,92(3), 229-235.
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Lai, H. Y., Chen, S. W. & Chen, Z. S. (2008). Pot experiment to study the uptake of Cd and Pb by three Indian mustards (Brassica juncea) grown in artificially contaminated soils. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 10 (2), 91-105.
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Makus, D. J., & Zibilske, L. (2009). Spinach and mustard greens response to soil texture, sulfur addition and lithium level. Subtropical Plant science, 60, 69-77.
Maric, M., Antonijevic, M. & Alagic, S. (2013). The investigation of the possibility for using some wild and cultivated plants as hyperaccumulators of heavy metals from contaminated soil. Environmental Science and Pollution research, 20(2), 1181-1188.
Mulkey, T. J. (2007). Alteration of growth and gravitropic response of maize roots by lithium. Gravitational and Space Research, 18(2).
Naranjo, M. A., Romero, C., Bellés, J. M., Montesinos, C., Vicente, O. & Serrano, R. (2003). Lithium treatment induces a hypersensitive-like response in tobacco. Planta, 217(3), 417-424.
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Schwertfeger, D. M. & Hendershot, W. H. (2013). Spike/leach procedure to prepare soil samples for trace metal ecotoxicity testing: Method development using copper. Communications in soil science and plant analysis, 44(10), 1570-1587.
Seneviratne, M., Rajakaruna, N., Rizwan, M., Madawala, H. M. S. P., Ok, Y. S., & Vithanage, M. (2019). Heavy metal-induced oxidative stress on seed germination and seedling development: a critical review. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 41(4), 1813-1831.
Shahzad, B., Tanveer, M., Hassan, W., Shah, A. N., Anjum, S. A., Cheema, S. A. & Ali, I. (2016). Lithium toxicity in plants: Reasons, mechanisms and remediation possibilities–A review. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 107, 104-115
Sobolev, O. I., Gutyj, B. V., Darmohray, L. M., Sobolievа, S. V., Ivanina, V. V., Kuzmenko, O. A, Karkach, P.M., Fesenko, V.F., Bilkevych, V.V., Mashkin, Y.O. and Trofymchuk, A.M. & Chernyuk, S. V. (2019). Lithium in the natural environment and its migration in the trophic chain. Ukrainian Journal of Ecology, 9(2), 195-203.
Tkatcheva, V., Poirier, D., Chong-Kit, R., Furdui, V. I., Burr, C., Leger, R. & Simmons, D. B. (2015). Lithium an emerging contaminant: bioavailability, effects on protein expression, and homeostasis disruption in short-term exposure of rainbow trout. Aquatic Toxicology, 161, 85-93.
Vamerali, T., Bandiera, M., Lucchini, P. & Mosca, G. (2015). Metal partitioning in plant–substrate–water compartments under EDDS-assisted phytoextraction of pyrite waste with Brassica carinata A. Braun. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 22(4), 2434 – 2446.
Voica, C., Roba, C. & Iordache, A.M. (2021). Lithium Levels in Food from the Romanian Market by Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometry (ICP–MS): A Pilot Study. Analytical Letters, 54(1-2), 242-254
Wuana, R. A., Okieimen, F. E. & Imborvungu, J. A. (2010). Removal of heavy metals from a contaminated soil using organic chelating acids. International Journal of Environmental Science & Technology, 7(3), 485-496.
Zheng, S., Li, X., Yan, B., Hu, Q., Xu, Y., Xiao, X. et al. (2017). Transition-metal (Fe, Co, Ni) based metal-organic frameworks for electrochemical energy storage. Adv. Energy Mater., 7,1602733. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.2016 02733
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Effect of lithium on seed germination and plant growth of Amaranthus viridis. (2022). Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 14(1), 133-139. https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.v14i1.3165
