TABLE 5.
Treatments | Fe(μg g−1 DW) |
Mn(μg g−1 DW) |
Cu(μg g−1 DW) |
Mg(mg g−1 DW) |
Zn(μg g−1 DW) |
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Roots | Leaves | Roots | Leaves | Roots | Leaves | Roots | Leaves | Roots | Leaves | |
Control | 633.5 ± 70.3a | 84.9 ± 6.1a | 368.3 ± 40.1a | 43.8 ± 3.9b | 15.7 ± 2.1b | 4.8 ± 1.1c | 8.2 ± 0.5a | 9.5 ± 0.7a | 45.0 ± 0.8b | 37.5 ± 0.4a |
0.5 mM Sb | 234.7 ± 22.6b | 89.9 ± 9.1a | 307.0 ± 33.5a | 50.6 ± 6.2a | 15.3 ± 1.3b | 6.4 ± 1.3b | 6.8 ± 0.7b | 8.0 ± 0.9b | 46.7 ± 1.0b | 33.4 ± 0.4c |
1.0 mM Sb | 112.6 ± 12.8c | 69.4 ± 8.5b | 239.6 ± 21.8b | 45.1 ± 2.7ab | 28.6 ± 2.9a | 10.2 ± 1.9a | 5.2 ± 0.6c | 4.9 ± 0.4c | 56.6 ± 1.2a | 35.0 ± 0.5b |
The data are from 10 independent experiments, each carried out in triplicate (different letters indicate significant differences at p < 0.05, Mann–Whitney U-test).