Re-investigation of cadmium accumulation in Mirabilis jalapa L.: evidences from field and laboratory

Li, Qinchun; Wang, Hongbin; Wang, Haijuan; Wang, Zhongzhen; Li, Yang; Ran, Jiakang; Zhang, Chunyu

doi:10.1007/s11356-020-07785-6

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Published: 25 January 2020

Re-investigation of cadmium accumulation in Mirabilis jalapa L.: evidences from field and laboratory

Qinchun Li^1,2,
Hongbin Wang ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9449-4448^1,2,
Haijuan Wang^1,2,
Zhongzhen Wang^1,2,
Yang Li^1,2,
Jiakang Ran^1,2 &
Chunyu Zhang^1,2

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Mirabilis jalapa L. was identified as a cadmium (Cd) hyperaccumulator, but data were mainly from laboratory conditions. The main aim of the present study was to confirm whether M. jalapa is a Cd hyperaccumulator by field survey and laboratory experiment. The field survey was conducted at 3 sites and 66 samples were collected, and the results showed that although M. jalapa did not exhibit any visible damage when growing on soil containing 139 mg Cd kg⁻¹, a low concentration of Cd (11.85 ± 3.45 mg kg⁻¹) in its leaves was observed. Although the translocation factor (TF) was up to 3.24 ± 0.42, the bioconcentration factor (BCF) was only 0.13 ± 0.07. The Cd accumulation in leaves of Lanping (LP, contaminated site) and Kunming (KM, clean site) populations reached 93.88 and 81.76 mg kg⁻¹ when artificially spiked soil Cd was 175 mg kg⁻¹, respectively. The BCFs of LP and KM populations were 0.55 and 0.48, and the TFs of the two populations were 3.98 and 4.15, respectively. Under hydroponic condition, the Cd concentration in young leaves of LP and KM populations was 78.5 ± 0.8 and 46.3 ± 1.2 mg kg⁻¹ at 5 mg L⁻¹ Cd treatment, respectively. Furthermore, a significantly positive correlation between tissue Cd concentration and total Cd, CaCl₂-extractable Cd, and TCLP-Cd (toxicity characteristic leaching procedure) in soil was established. Therefore, M. jalapa had constitutional characteristics for Cd tolerance and accumulation, but it was not a Cd hyperaccumulator.

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Abbreviations

ANOVA:: Analysis of variance
BCF:: Bioconcentration factor
Cd:: Cadmium
HMs:: Heavy metals
IARC:: International Agency for Research on Cancer
PAHs:: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
TCLP:: Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure
TF:: Translocation factor
TI:: Tolerance index

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (31960264) and Analyze and Test Foundation of Kunming University of Science and Technology, China (2017P20161107010).

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Li, Q., Wang, H., Wang, H. et al. Re-investigation of cadmium accumulation in Mirabilis jalapa L.: evidences from field and laboratory. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 12065–12079 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-07785-6

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Keywords

Phytoextraction
Cadmium accumulation
Hyperaccumulator
Tolerance
Mirabilis jalapa L.
Ornamental plant