Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (11): 27-35.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2018-0536

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Advances in Physiological,Biochemical and Response Mechanism of Sweet Sorghum Under Cadmium Stress

LI Jian-gang1, LIU Rui-yuan1, PENG Dan-ni1,2, LI Wen-jian1, DONG Xi-cun2, MA Jian-zhong1   

  1. 1. School of Life Science and Engineering,Lanzhou University of Technology,Lanzhou 730000;
    2. Institute of Modern Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Lanzhou 730030
  • Received:2018-06-11 Online:2018-11-26 Published:2018-11-28

Abstract: The domestic waste,fertilizers,pesticides,and the development of manufacturing and mining have being caused heavy metal contamination in soils. This paper systematically summarizes the physiological and biochemical mechanisms of sweet sorghum under cadmium stress,tolerance and molecular mechanism. The physiological and biochemical mechanism mainly refers to the effects of cadmium stress on sweet sorghum seed germination and seedling growth,antioxidant enzyme activity,photosynthetic parameters,ultrastructure and microelement absorption. While the tolerance of sweet sorghum to cadmium includes the efflux mechanism and internal tolerance,the efflux mechanism is mainly the efflux of protein yellow stripe-like protein,the heavy metal ATPase 4,the plant cadmium resistance protein 1,and the pleiotropic drug-resistance protein 8 via heavy metals;the internal tolerance mainly has the chelation and the vacuolar compartmentalization of heavy metals. The mechanism of tolerance is mainly dependent on the regulation of glutathione pathway,the expressions of late embryogenesis abundant protein and natural resistance associated macrophage protein. In addition,the study on the cadmium uptake and accumulation and transport-related proteins in sweet sorghum mainly refers to the main process of cadmium entering plants,the accumulation order of calcium in plant,the transport of zinc-iron-ion regulated transporter protein,and natural resistance associated macrophage protein in the cell membrane. Finally,the advantages of applying sweet sorghum for bioremediation are explained and prospected,and the problems and future research directions are proposed,which may provide a basis for future breeding of sweet sorghum and the cultivation of new sweet sorghum varieties with high efficiency in remediating cadmium-contaminated soil .

Key words: sweet sorghum, cadmium, physiology and biochemistry, response mechanism