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Ornamental plants adapted to urban ecosystem pollution: lawn grasses tolerating deicing reagents

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Deicing reagents are priority soil pollutants in urban ecosystems. Sodium chloride is one of the priority deicing reagents. Sodium chloride is limiting the spread of lawn grass. We first showed the possibility of using environmental biotechnology in urban greening to obtain lawn grasses tolerant of sodium chloride. We have developed a cell selection technology to obtain salt-tolerant lawn grasses. A cell selection scheme with 1% sodium chloride was used. Most of the tested regenerants were more tolerant to NaCl than original plants. The descendants of the studied regenerants demonstrated the preservation of salt resistance. Most of the descendants of the regenerants Agrostis stolonifera retained high decorative qualities under salinity conditions. The tolerance remained in the next five generations. The descendants of the most salt-tolerant clones Agrostis stolonifera demonstrated resistance to 1% sodium chloride concentration in soil. These plants can serve as the basis for the creation of new salt-tolerant varieties.

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Part of research was carried out within the state assignment of Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (theme 121050500047-5). 

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    Evgeny Aleksandrovich Gladkov

  2. Moscow, Russia

    Olga Victorovna Gladkova

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Conceptualization: Evgeny Aleksandrovich Gladkov, Olga Victorovna Gladkova

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Gladkov, E.A., Gladkova, O.V. Ornamental plants adapted to urban ecosystem pollution: lawn grasses tolerating deicing reagents. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 22947–22951 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-16355-3

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