Salicylic acid pretreatment effect on cadmium toxicity in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

This study has investigated the effects of the different levels of Salicylic acid(SA) on the total fresh weight, Chl(a, b, and total), prolin, total soluble protein, soluble and insoluble sugar under stress of cadmium(Cd) in the plant of the wheat(Triticum aestivum L. cu. Zarrin). The seedlings received pretreatment of salicylic acid (0, 10-4 and 10-3M) and treatment of Cd(0, 25 and 50µM). The results showed that the total fresh weight at 50µM of Cd in the Cd treatments without SA had a significant increase by comparison with control. At SA treatments without Cd, the concentration of Chl a and the total Chl at 10-4M from SA increased. At Cd treatments without SA in 25µM of Cd the amount of the root prolin by comparison with control increased whereas the amount of the leaf prolin decreased. At the lack of Cd with increasing SA, the amount of the leaf prolin by comparison with control decreased. By increasing the concentration of SA in the lack of Cd, the level of the root protein increased. In the absence of SA with increasing Cd, the amount of soluble sugar of the root and leaf decreased. In the SA treatments without Cd, the amount of the soluble sugar of the root was decreased. With the lack of SA within increasing Cd, the amount of insoluble sugar of the root and leaf in 25µM of Cd decreased. In the SA treatments with the lack of Cd, the amount of insoluble sugar of the leaf increased.