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The proteomic study of abiotic stress of plants.
Barabášová, Kamila ; Podlipná, Radka (advisor) ; Smrček, Stanislav (referee)
Keywords: Arabidopsis thaliana, phytoremediation, abiotic stress, ibuprofene, doxorubicin, two-dimensional electrophoresis Nowadays, develop of the pharmaceutical industry is very fast. Reason of this trend is ever-increasing number of diseases, lifestyle and still increasing demand for the drugs. With this trend growing interest in the analysis of the residues of pharmaceuticals in the environment which is result of incomplete wastewater treatment. This diploma thesis is studying effect of cytostatic drugs, specifically doxorubicin and one of the most widely used analgesics - ibuprofen, at the proteome level of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Proteins isolated from plants exposed to the drugs were separated by two-dimensional electrophoresis. Comparing of protein maps by PDQest program (Bio-Rad, USA) was found several proteins whose expression was affected by the presence of drugs in the culture medium. Selected proteins were identified by LC - MS / MS.
Study of plant stress responces in presence of pharmaceuticals in cultivation medium
Bystroňová, Jana ; Soudek, Petr (advisor) ; Podlipná, Radka (referee)
The aim of this study was to verify the possibility of ibuprofen degradation by selected plant cultures and determination of activities of antioxidant enzymes (peroxidase, catalase, ascorbate peroxidase and glutathione-S-transferase) as markers of oxidative stress caused by ibuprofen. Nicotiana tabaccum (cv. La Burley 21, cv. SR 1 and their GMOs) and Nicotiana glauca were used as experimental plants. The rate of removal of ibuprofen tested by tobacco was decreasing in the following order: N. tabaccum SR1 > N. tabaccum Zm-P60-1-T4 > N. tabaccum TRI 2T2 > N. glauca > N. tabaccum TRI 2T1 > N. tabaccum cv. La Burley > N. tabaccum Zm-P60-1-T5. As the most suitable tobacco for the removal of ibuprofen seemed untransformed N. tabaccum SR1. The long-term experiment showed that plant stress is being manifested even after longtime. N. tabaccum cv. La Burley 21 seemed to be the most tolerant to ibuprofen in compare with the total enzyme activities in cultures with the presence of ibuprofen and controls. N.glauca was the least tolerant cultivar. Keywords: phytoremediation, ibuprofen, Nicotiana tabaccum, Nicotiana glauca, HPLC, peroxidase, catalase, ascorbate peroxidase, glutathion-S-transferase
Radionuclide accumulation by plants cultivated under laboratory and real conditions
Dvořáková, Barbora ; Soudek, Petr (advisor) ; Petrová, Šárka (referee)
Environmental contamination with radionuclides is a growing problem in many places all over the world. Phytoremediation works as a safety alternative for some energy demanding and expensive methods of soil cleaning. Phytoremediation uses various abilities of plants and microorganisms to change the mobility of contaminants in soil as well as soil properties. The uptake and transport of radionuclides to plants is affected by their chemical form. Radionuclides in soil are taken up by plants and can thus enter the food chain. The number of nuclear accidents such as Chernobyl and Fukushima operation of nuclear power plants, mining and processing of uranium ores and testing of nuclear weapons result in global contamination of our planet by artificial radionuclides.
Study of physiological changes in plants under stress by zinc ions
Adam, Rostislav ; Soudek, Petr (advisor) ; Petrová, Šárka (referee)
Heavy metals are part of us life for many centuries. Some of them are for living organism neccessary, but in large amount they have toxic effects. So we should decrease amount of heavy metals in the Environment. We have many way to do it. A relatively new way are the phytoremediation. If we would use the phytoremediation, we should know, what they do in plants. We must use specific plants, which are tolerant to certain heavy metal. If we would select a suitable plant, we have to try, how heavy metals in soil solution are toxic to plants. Zinc is no expection, although it is important part of many proteins. In plants it make rusty leaves and reduct aboveground and root biomass production. In hydroponic experiment I investigated that mallow Malva verticillata was very sensitive to low additon of Zn(NO3)2. The toxic efect appeared in 2 weeks. In sorghum Sorghum bicolor zinc show expressive toxic effect at concentration 1 mmol/l. I studied six cultivars of Sorghum bicolor, DSM 14-535, Expres, Honey Graze BMR, Nutri Honey, Sucrosorgho 506 and Sweet Virginia. According EC50 I as- sessed that the most sensitive was Sucrosorgho 506 and very tolerant were Nutri Honey and Sweet Virginia. Cultivar Nutri Honey was characteristic. It had the highest ratio concentration in shoot to concentration in root. I studied...
Influence of salicylic acid on naproxene and diclofenac phytoextraction.
Vrtalová, Martina ; Smrček, Stanislav (advisor) ; Břichnáčová Habartová, Věra (referee)
The influence of salicylic acid on the naproxene a diclofenac phytoextraction at different starting concentrations of tested substances has been investigated. The experiments were performed using in vitro sterile hydroponic cultivation of Helianthus annus, Pisum sativum, Brassica napus and Zea mays plants on the Murashige-Skoog cultivation medium supplemented with appropriate combinations of tested substances. The extraction of naproxene (15 or 17 mg/l) in the presence of salicylic acid (1 or 5 mg/l) was decreased at B. napus and P. sativum plants. In contrast to these results the phytoextraction by H. annuus plants was increased by the use of the same experimental conditions . At diclofenac/salicylic acid combinations and H. annuus plants the positive influence of salicylic acid in the concentration of 1 mg/l on diclofenac phytoextraction was found while the concentration of 5 mg/l diminished the phytoextraction efficiency. At other used plant species the extraction of diclofenac was concentration dependently decreased by salicylic acid. The obtained results clearly show that phytoextraction in multicomponent mixtures is complicated and in tested systems the salicylic acid moderately influenced phytoextraction of naproxene and diclofenac in dependence on the used plant species ad salicylic acid...
Vliv duální mykorhizy na příjem těžkých kovů vybranými dřevinami čeledi Salicaceae
Kuchár, Michal ; Mrnka, Libor (advisor) ; Kolaříková, Zuzana (referee)
3.2. Abstract Soil contamination by heavy metals represents rather serious environmental problem for both human health and an environment itself. One of the perspective technologies dealing with this threat that only recently has been intensely developed is phytoremediation by means of short rotation coppice plantations. As plants used in this technology (mostly poplars and willows) host two major groups of mycorrhizal fungi substantially influencing plant physiology it is important to study plant-mycobiontheavy metals interactions rather than just plant-heavy metals interactions. The present thesis aimed to contribute to the growing knowledge of the field by search for suitable mycobionts of poplar or willow tolerant to heavy metals, by evaluating an activity of the key antioxidative enzyme in selected mycobionts and by looking at physiological responses of plant hosts to their mycobionts in a soil polluted by heavy metals. The first experiment in vitro focused on screening of morphometric criteria of fungi growing on solid growth media amended with mixture of heavy metals. Based on the results, several tolerant ectomycorrhizal strains were chosen for the next inoculation of fast growing trees serving phytoextraction and phytostabilisation strategies. The second, re-synthetic experiment was conducted in...
Utilization of biotechnological method in growing of technical hemp
Širl, Marek ; Zelenková, Sylva (advisor) ; Fischer, Lukáš (referee)
Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is a multi-use crop, able to provide fibre celulose and hurds for industrial treatment biomass for energy conversion and produces secondary metabolites useful for pharmaceutical application. For its resistence to stress and ability to accumulate high concentration of heavy metals it can be potentialy used for phytoremediation. The aim of current research is the development of new strains, with specialy improved qualities and the enhancement of its applicability. Besides traditional breeding methods, genetic manipulation might be the possible tool. What is currently discussed is finding optimal conditions allowing efective in vitro cultivation as a basic assumption of genetic manipulation. Hemp transformation via Agrobacterium tumefaciens co-cultivation might be the appropriate technic.
Accumulation of uranium by plants cultivated under laboratory conditions
Buzek, Martin ; Soudek, Petr (advisor) ; Petrová, Šárka (referee)
The ability to accumulate uranium was tested on 20 different cultivars and GMOs of Nicotiana spp. grown in Hoagland's hydroponic medium indoors. Apart from the accumulation and translocation of uranium in plants, the effects of genetic modifications and adaptations of hydroponic medium on the ability of plants to accumulate uranium were tested. N. glauca, N. tabacum cv. M 51 and GMO M 51 Pro seemed to be the best plants for accumulation of uranium. Concentrations of uranium in these plants grown in medium with 0,5 mM of uranium were as high as 31.28 mg/g dry weight in roots and 0.21 mg/g in upper parts. N. tabacum cv. La Burley 21 and GMOs TRI2 - T1 and TRI2 - T2 were tested for accumulation and translocation of uranium. Highest concentration was 72.49 mg/g in roots, 4 mg/g in stems and 1.1 mg/g in highest leaves for plants cultivated in medium with 1 mM of uranium. Absence of phosphate in the hydroponic medium resulted in increased accumulation of uranium.
Phytoremediation:biochemical characteristics of heavy metal hyperacumulators
Lábusová, Jana ; Lipavská, Helena (advisor) ; Podlipná, Radka (referee)
Water and soil pollution by heavy metals is a very serious problem of nowadays. Since the beginning of industrial revolution, the concentration of heavy metals increased sharply in the environment. One way how to decontaminate soils and groundwaters is phytoremediation that uses plants to remediate pollutants from the contaminated sites. This eco-friendly and cost- effective method exploits the ability of plants to take up, translocate, transform and sequester metals. In phytoremediation, the plants that are able to accumulate metals to high concentration are mainly used. These plants are named "hyperaccumulators". Accumulation of metals by plants is affected not only by the capability of plant in question, but to a great extend also by the form and concentration of metal in the soil and environmental conditions. The aim of this Bachelor thesis is to summarize knowledge on impact of heavy metals on biochemical changes in plants, with special emphasis on changes in carbohydrate metabolism.
APPUCATION OF A SHORT-TIME HYDROPONICS FOR SELECTION OF APPROPRIATE DECIDUOUS WOODY PLANTS SPECIES FOR REMEDIATION PURPOSES
Malá, J. ; Cvrčková, H. ; Máchová, P. ; Dostál, J. ; Soudek, Petr ; Šíma, P.
A rapid trial of accumulation capacities for heavy metals Pb, Cd, and Cr of selected fast-growing deciduous woody plant species is presented. The Sorbus aucuparia, Populus tremula x P. tremuloides, Salix x blanda, S. viminalis, S. miyabeana, and S. elbursensiswere clonally micropropagated by induction of organogenesis. Samples of roots and aboveground parts from plantlets grown in aseptic conditions in agar semisolid substrate and hydroponics media supplemented by the heavy metal salts were taken at 2, 4, and 8 days of cultivation.The concentrations and distributions of the accumulated metals were determined using the ICP-OES method and verified by autoradiography. Practically, amounts of accumulated heavy metals increased linearly up to the end of the experiment and were higher in the roots than in aboveground parts in both, the agar cultures and hydroponics. It could be concluded that all tested species displayed a high efficacy of metal uptake and could represent prospective trees for phytoremediation of polluted soils.

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