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Lawns and flower are major aesthetical and environmental elements of the urban ecosystem. However, harsh urban conditions such as pollution by heavy metals are unfavorable for plants. For example, copper is toxic for ornamental plants, limiting the spread of lawn grass and flowering plants. Therefore, here we hypothesized that plants could be adapted to urban conditions by breeding. We first showed the possibility of using environmental biotechnology in urban greening to obtain, tolerating copper flowering plants and lawn grasses. We tested the adaptation of creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) and painted daisy (Chrysanthemum carinatum Schousb.) to сopper. We measured Cu resistance in the next generations of those plant species. Results show that some next generations of plant regenerants have increased resistance up to 100 mg/kg Cu for Agrostis stolonifera, and up to 30 mg/kg for Chrysanthemum carinatum. Our findings thus imply that city plants may be adapted and improved by сell selection. Our approach thus represents a novel biotechnology consisting of adapting plants to pollution by сell selection.
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The authors thank Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Dolgikh Y.I., from Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, for the valuable comments when developing the technology for producing copper-resistant plants.
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Evgeny Aleksandrovich Gladkov—51%
Ilina Igorevna Tashlieva—30%
Olga Victorovna Gladkova—19%
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Part of the work was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (topic number АААА-А19-119041890054-8).
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Gladkov, E.A., Tashlieva, I.I. & Gladkova, O.V. Ornamental plants adapted to urban ecosystem pollution: lawn grasses and painted daisy tolerating copper. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 14115–14120 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-11423-6
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