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Fertigation of calcium nitrate [Ca(NO3)2] confers metal tolerance in two chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivars

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Soil contamination with cadmium (Cd) is problem nowadays due to industrialization. A pot experiment was conducted to assess the exogenous effect of calcium nitrate (CaNO3) on morphological traits, photosynthetic efficiency, oxidative stress indicators, secondary metabolites and enzymatic antioxidative capacity in two chickpea (chickpea-brittle and chickpea-2008) cultivars under Cd stress (0 and 200 μM). Results revealed that the Cd stress caused a significant (p < 0.05) reduction in biomass production, photosynthetic pigments, flavonoids and phenolics whereas increase in the activities of various antioxidative enzymes like superoxidase dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), catalase (CAT) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) as well as malondialdehyde (MDA) and H2O2 content. Cd-administered plants accumulated proline and total soluble proteins in substantial amount. However, results also show that chickpea-brittle showed more tolerance to the chickpea-2008 under the same levels of Cd in the soil. The leaves may be treated with Ca(NO3)2 to reduce toxic effects of Cd, which enhances biomass through increased plant growth along elevated pigments of photosynthetic, activities of antioxidant enzymes and levels of secondary metabolites, in comparison to untreated plants. Additionally, fortifying the Ca(NO3)2 application also decreases the levels of oxidative damaged to membrane-bounded organelles in the plants. Our findings suggested that Ca(NO3)2 spray can mitigate Cd toxicity and leads to increased chickpea growth and yield under Cd-contaminated conditions depicting by decreasing oxidative stress within cell. It was concluded that foliar application of Ca(NO3)2 may alleviate toxic effects of Cd in studied chickpea cultivars through enhanced plant growth, high content of photosynthetic pigments and low oxidative stress under Cd treatments.

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    Abida Parveen, Iqbal Hussain, Shagufta Perveen, Muhammad Arslan Ashraf, Rizwan Rasheed & Sumaira Thind

  2. Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, 38040, Pakistan

    Saddam Hussain

  3. College of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211-Huimin Road, Wenjiang District, Chengdu, 611130, People’s Republic of China

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• Exogenous Ca enhances chickpea growth and yield in both cultivars.

• Exogenous Ca decline oxidative stress by decreasing level of H2O2 and MDA.

• Exogenous Ca boosts antioxidants and secondary metabolites, etc.

• Exogenous Ca enhanced growth and yield in control and Cd-contaminated conditions.

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Parveen, A., Hussain, I., Perveen, S. et al. Fertigation of calcium nitrate [Ca(NO3)2] confers metal tolerance in two chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivars. Arab J Geosci 15, 1078 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-09638-7

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