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However, the role of SLs in cadmium (Cd)-induced stress to plants is still unknown. The physiological responses of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) stressed in 10 \u03bcmol L-1 Cd to exogenous synthetic SLs analog, GR24 were studied in hydroponics. The Cd stress significantly caused the adverse effects on plant growth and root morphology, inhibited photosynthesis, but boosted lipid peroxidation of Switchgrass seedlings. After treatment of 1 \u03bcmol L-1 GR24, the above adverse effects caused by Cd stress were significantly alleviated, mainly reflects in improvement of shoot biomass, relative water content, root development, chlorophyll contents, activities of typical antioxidant enzymes, nutrient uptake. The reason for exogenous GR24 alleviating cadmium toxicity might be owing to that exogenous GR24 promoted the content of endogenous SLs, increased some essential element Fe (iron), Zn (zinc), Mn (manganese) and Cu (copper) uptake and reduced cadmium uptake, accumulation and partition in shoot of switchgrass seedlings.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph14080852","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,1]],"date-time":"2017-08-01T03:30:06Z","timestamp":1501558206000},"page":"852","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":79,"title":["Exogenous GR24 Alleviates Cadmium Toxicity by Reducing Cadmium Uptake in Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) Seedlings"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Zhenglan","family":"Tai","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, 210095 Nanjing, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinqiang","family":"Yin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, 210095 Nanjing, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhigang","family":"Fang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, 210095 Nanjing, China"},{"name":"Kashghar University, 844006 Kashghar, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gaoling","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Provincial Key Laboratory of Agrobiology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 210014 Nanjing, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Laiqing","family":"Lou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, 210095 Nanjing, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qingsheng","family":"Cai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, 210095 Nanjing, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,7,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"63","DOI":"10.1016\/j.chemosphere.2011.02.054","article-title":"Calcium protects roots of Sedum alfredii H. against cadmium-induced oxidative stress","volume":"84","author":"Tian","year":"2011","journal-title":"Chemosphere"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Wang, J., Yu, N., Mu, G., Shinwari, K.I., Shen, Z., and Zheng, L. 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