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INFLUENCE OF PUTRESCINE APPLICATION ON CROP<br />

TOLERANCE TO HEAVY METAL STRESS<br />

Petr Soudek, Mar<strong>in</strong>a Ursu, Šárka Petrová, Tomáš Vaněk<br />

Laboratory of Plant Biotechnologies, Jo<strong>in</strong>t Laboratory of IEB AS CR, v.v.i. and RICP,<br />

v.v.i., Rozvojová 263, 165 02 Prague 6 – Lysolaje, Czech Republic, e-mail:<br />

soudek@ueb.cas.cz<br />

Nowadays, <strong>the</strong>re are two major problems <strong>in</strong> crop grow<strong>in</strong>g – pollution and nutrition. Dur<strong>in</strong>g<br />

an <strong>in</strong>dustrial period numerous areas were heavily contam<strong>in</strong>ated by heavy metals and <strong>the</strong>y<br />

are still not suitable for food production. The consumption of contam<strong>in</strong>ated food crops is<br />

pos<strong>in</strong>g health risk for humank<strong>in</strong>d. On <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand, low concentrations of some heavy<br />

metals are essential for liv<strong>in</strong>g organisms. The population growth puts a strong pressure on<br />

quantity and quality of substantial food. The improvement of food nutrition by <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>in</strong>crease of essential elements concentrations <strong>in</strong> food is one of <strong>the</strong> goals. The problem is<br />

that heavy metals generate free radicals <strong>in</strong> plant cells. Plants have many types of defense<br />

mechanisms that protect <strong>the</strong>m aga<strong>in</strong>st damage by reactive oxygen. These mechanisms<br />

comprise of different types of non-enzymatic compounds such as ascorbic acid,<br />

glutathione, carotenoids, α-tocopherol, and enzymatic compounds such as APOX, GR,<br />

SOD, and CAT. Recently, many authors suggest <strong>the</strong> possible antioxidant role of<br />

polyam<strong>in</strong>es as radical scavengers. For example, sperm<strong>in</strong>e is known for <strong>the</strong> plant tissues<br />

protection of <strong>the</strong> metal-<strong>in</strong>duced oxidative damage.<br />

The aim of this work was to affect <strong>the</strong> accumulation and <strong>the</strong> translocation of toxic metals<br />

and essential elements <strong>in</strong> crop plants by external application of putresc<strong>in</strong>e.<br />

Acknowledgements: Supported by <strong>COST</strong> FA0605 (<strong>COST</strong>.FA0605OC9082).

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