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Bioactive compounds from Schisandra chinensis - Risk for aquatic plants?
VALÍČKOVÁ, J. ZEZULKA, Š. MARŠÁLKOVÁ, E. KOTLÍK, J. MARŠÁLEK, B. OPATŘILOVÁ, R.
Original Title
Bioactive compounds from Schisandra chinensis - Risk for aquatic plants?
Type
journal article in Web of Science
Language
English
Original Abstract
Schisandra chinensis is a potential plant for production of nutrient supplements due to adaptogens content. The dominant bioactive substance, lignan schisandrin, has positive effects on human health, but it can cause possible allelopathic effects in relation to other plants. S. chinensis is not native to European ecosystems, and its ecotoxicological properties have not been verified yet. Lemna minor was selected as a model aquatic plant to test. Crude water extract from S. chinensis fruits, simulating the natural soaking of active substances in a surface water body, was used in treatments from 0.045 to 45 mg/L (according to the content of schisandrin as the dominating lignan). During seven days of cultivation, the growth (number of plants, leaf area, fresh weight) and photosynthetic activity of L. minor fronds were assessed. In low treatments, the extract of S. chinensis did not cause any changes in duckweed growth parameters or photosynthetic performance. Higher treatments caused significant limitations in plants’ number, total leaf area, and fresh weight. The photosynthetic parameters (basal chlorophyll fluorescence, quantum yields) were affected only by 0.9 mg/L. The highest treatment, exhibited extreme toxicity to duckweed plants causing their death during the first five days of cultivation. Schisandrin and other bioactive substances extractable from S. chinensis fruits can negatively impact water biota in the case of massive contamination of surface water.
Keywords
Adaptogen, lignan, schisandrin, phytotoxicity, photosysnthesis, Lemna minor
Authors
VALÍČKOVÁ, J.; ZEZULKA, Š.; MARŠÁLKOVÁ, E.; KOTLÍK, J.; MARŠÁLEK, B.; OPATŘILOVÁ, R.
Released
2. 1. 2023
Publisher
Elsevier
Location
Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
1879-1514
Periodical
Aquatic Toxicology
Number
254
State
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Pages from
106365
Pages to
106369
Pages count
5
URL
BibTex
@article{BUT180483,
author="Jana {Valíčková} and Štěpán {Zezulka} and Eliška {Maršálková} and Josef {Kotlík} and Blahoslav {Maršálek} and Radka {Opatřilová}",
title="Bioactive compounds from Schisandra chinensis - Risk for aquatic plants?",
journal="Aquatic Toxicology",
year="2023",
number="254",
pages="5",
doi="10.1016/j.aquatox.2022.106365",
issn="1879-1514",
url="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2022.106365"
}Documents