声明
ACKNOWCEDGEMENTS
CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
ABBREVIATIONS
Abstract
摘要
CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1.1.What is oilseed rape?
1.2.Economic importance
1.3.Promising heavy metals and their concentration in the soil of Zhejiang Province
1.4.Impacts of heavy metals on plants
1.5.Interaction of Cr and plants
1.6.Possible way outs
1.7.Aims of the study
1.8.Study outlines
CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.1.What is stress?
2.2.Cr as a toxic and a non-essential element
2.2.1.Occurrence
2.2.2.Cr species
2.3.Human health and Cr-toxicity
2.4.Hazardous effects of Cr on plants
2.5.Cr and Brassica napus interaction
2.6.SA as an elevator
2.7.Role of GSH to improve the stress impacts on plant
CHAPTER3 GENOTYPIC VARIATION OF THE RESPONSE TO CHROMIUM TOXICITY IN FOUR OILSEED RAPE CULTIVARS
3.1.Introduction
3.2.Materials and methods
3.2.1.Plant material and experimental conditions
3.2.2.Measurement of Plant physio-morphic attributes
3.2.3.Determination of MDA and singlet oxygen species
3.2.4.Assessment of enzyme based plant immune system
3.2.5.Ultrastructural observations
3.2.6.Statistical analysis
3.3.Results
3.3.1.Analysis of physiological parameters
3.3.2.Determination of Cr and chlorophyll contents
3.3.3.MDA and ROS contents estimation
3.3.4.Evaluation of defense related enzymes and TSP contents
3.3.S.TEM ultrastruetural observations of leaf
3.3.6.TEM ultrastructural observations of root
3.4.Discussion
3.5.Conclusions
CHAPTER 4 CHROMIUM-INDUCED PHYSIO-CHEMICAL AND ULTRASTRUCTURAL CHANGES IN FOUR CULTIVARS OF Brassica napus L.
4.1.Introduction
4.2.Materials and methods
4.2.1.Plant material and growth conditions
4.2.2.Morphological parameters
4.2.3.Analysis of lipid peroxidation and reactive oxygen species(ROS)
4.2.4.Biochemical analysis
4.2.5.Analysis of detoxification related antioxidants
4.2.6.Transmission electron microscopy
4.2.7.Statistical Analysis
4.3.Results
4.3.1.Morphological attributes
4.3.2 Photosynthetic gas exchange capacity
4.3.3.Estimation of MDA and ROS
4.3.4.Analysis of enzymatic anlioxidants and TSP
4.3.5.Analysis of detoxification related defense mechanism
4.3.6.TEM cell strueturai observations
4.4.Discussion
4.5.Conclusions
CHAPTER 5 EXOGENOUSLY APPLIED SALICYLIC ACID REGULATES THE PHYSIO-MORPHIC AND MOLECULAR CHANGES UNDER CHROMIUM TOXICITY IN BLACK AND YELLOW SEEDED Brassica napus
5.1.Introduction
5.2.Materials and methods
5.2.1.Plant material and growth conditions
5.2.2.Chlorophyll and Cr content determination
5.2.3.Extraction and estimation of total SA contents
5.2.4.Determination of MDA contents and ROS activity
5.2.5.Determination of antioxidant machinery
5.2.6.Total RNA extraction,cDNA synthesis,and quantitative real-time PCR(qRT-PCR)assays
5.2.8.Statistical analysis
5.3.Results
5.3.1.Morpho-physiological attributes
5.3.2.Lipid peroxidation and ROS determination
5.3.3.Antioxidants enzyme activities
5.3.4.Enzymatic anfioxidants transcript level
5.3.5.Cr and total salicylic acid contents
5.3.6.Detoxification and secondary metabolite related gene expression
5.3.7.Cell ultra-structural observations
5.4.Discussion
5.5.Conclusions
CHAPTER 6 REDUCED GLUTATHIONE MEDIATES CHROMIUM TOXICITY IN OILSEED RAPE CULTIVARS AS REVELAED BY COMPARATIVE FUNCTIONAL RNA SEQUENCE ANALYSES
6.1.Introduction
6.2.Materials and methods
6.2.1.Experimental material and growth conditions
6.2.2.Cr and GSH content determination
6.2.3.Total RNA extraction,reliability assessment and RNA-sequence analyses
6.2.4.Establishment of de-novo assembly
6.2.5.Screening of differentially expressed genes(DEGs) and group differentially expressed genes
6.2.6.Expression pattern analysis of DEGs
6.2.7.Gene Ontology(Go) functional enrichment analysis(WEGO) of DEGs
6.2.8.KEGG pathway enrichment analysis
6.2.9.Statistical analysis
6.3.Results
6.3.1.Plant biomass,Cr and GSH contents determination
6.3.2.RNA sequencing and denovo assembly
6.3.3.Screening,expression pattern analysis and clustering of differentially expressed genes(DEGs)
6.3.4.Gene ontology functional classification(WEGO) of DEGs and cluster of orthologous groups(COGs) classification
6.3.5.KEGG metabolic pathway enrichment analysis
6.3.6.Analysis of top 10 up-regulated stress response-related DEGs
6.4.Discussion
6.5.Conclusions
CHAPTER 7 MAJOR FINDINGS AND FUTURE PERSPECTTVES
7.1.Major findings
7.2.Future perspectives
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