38 Nova Biotechnologica et Chimica 13-1 (2014) DOI 10.2478/nbec-2014-0005 © University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava DISTRIBUTION OF ZINC AND CADMIUM IN TISSUES OF GIANT REED (Arundo donax L.): SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION - RADIOMETRIC STUDY BARBORA MICHÁLEKOVÁ RICHVEISOVÁ, ZUZANA DÜREŠOVÁ, MIROSLAV HORNÍK, JOZEF AUGUSTÍN, MARTIN PIPÍŠKA Department of Ecochemistry and Radioecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, J. Herdu 2, Trnava, SK-917 01, Slovak Republic (b.richveisova@gmail.sk) Abstract: Heavy metals are taken up by the vascular plant root system from water solutions in cationic forms. Subsequently, during both short and long distance transport to other plant tissues, cation forms are incorporated to many bioorganic compounds differing in stability, ionic character and physico-chemical properties such as solubility in lipid structures and mobility across cell membrane systems. Many sequential and single step extraction methods have been elaborated for characterization of the role of individual components of plant cells components in transport and detoxication of heavy metals. In our study, dry biomass of giant reed (Arundo donax L.) grown in hydroponic media spiked with 65ZnCl2 and 109CdCl2 was treated with dithizone solutions as complexing ligand in order to convert free Zn2+ and Cd2+ ions to corresponding dithizonates. Treatment with dithizone showed that up to 67 % of the total plant Cd and 56 % of the total plant Zn were transformed to dithizonate complexes extracted with chloroform. Extraction of biomass with Folch reagent showed that up to 48 % of the total root cadmium and up to 18 % of the total shoot cadmium is bound in lipid fraction. Zinc was not found in lipid fraction of root and shoot. Derivatization of the dried root and shoot lipid fraction by dithizone showed that two third of Cd in root and practically all Cd in shoot lipid fraction could be transformed to Cd-dithizonate. Methods of biomass treating with complexing ligands and a method of sequential extraction procedures with non-polar organic solvents and radiotracer methodology seem to be useful methods for the study of metal speciation and distribution in vascular plants. Key words: 65Zn, 109Cd, Arundo donax L., sequential extraction, dithizonate, speciation 1. Introduction Contamination of environment by heavy metals such as Cu, Cd, Pb, Hg and Zn is a global problem. Heavy metals and radionuclides spreading from the source of air pollution are dissolved by rainfall water and sorbed by leaf surface of higher plants or directly sorbed onto soil components. Reversibility of the metal sorption at the end of vegetation period determine the next transport of contaminants to the soil and consequently into the food chain in the following vegetation period. Plants can bind contaminants from soil and according to the way of binding, these metals are released to the environment in different speed. Giant reed (Arundo donax) can be considered both as an energy plant and as a tool for toxic metal removal from contaminated land. The plant can survive in wetlands Bereitgestellt von Slovenská poľnohospodárska knižnica | Heruntergeladen 16.01.20 16:05 UTC Nova Biotechnologica et Chimica 13-1 (2014) 39 when the concentration of Cu2+, Pb2+, Cd2+, Zn2+, Ni2+ and Hg2+ is 100 mg/kg and Cr6+ 50 mg/kg (HAN and HU, 2005). The concentration of heavy metals in soil declines with the growth of the plant due to the translocation of heavy metals from peripheral soil to rhizosphere and the phytoextraction and phytovolatilization. The characters of large biomass, exuberant root and good adaptability of A. donax suggested its great potential in remediation of polluted soils. Giant reed can be considered also as a sensitive biomonitor of the presence of heavy metals in water and sediments. BONANNO (2012) showed that concentrations of metals in plant tissues were significantly dependent on the kind of organ and element. Trace element concentrations decreased according to the pattern of root > leaf > stem, implying that roots acted as the main centres of bioaccumulation, and stems as transit organs as a consequence of the general high translocation from roots to leaves. A. donax showed a significant capacity of bioaccumulation in agreement with ecologically similar macrophytes. Positive correlations were found between trace concentrations in plant organs and sediment (Al, Cr, Mn, Ni, Zn), and water (Cu, Ni, Zn). The results of this study suggested that A. donax acts as an ecological indicator of environmental conditions, thus, its application may prove a useful tool during monitoring campaigns of wetlands. In the quantification of the efficiency of energy production processes based on biomass, energy returned on invested energy is an important parameter to be considered. In this context, A. donax showed the best results, thanks to the great yields reached in low input cultivation conditions, with respects to other herbaceous perennial species (PILU et al., 2012; TAKAHASHI et al., 2010). The annual stem production can reach from 12 to 23 t DM/ha (MAVROGIANOPOULOS et al., 2002). Giant reed is therefore considered an important representative of energy plants. For extraction of heavy metals from soils and sediments, a variety of single and sequential extraction techniques can be used (TESSIER et al., 1979). These techniques were recently reviewed by BABEL and DACERA (2006). However, owing to the wide range of extractants used in these extraction techniques, the results obtained were not comparable. In 1987, the Community Bureau of Reference (BCR) started a programme to harmonize the methodology used in sequential extraction schemes for determination of metals in soils and sediments (URE et al., 1993). The methodology was also successfully applied to different types of biomass. The type of applied sequential extraction scheme can lead to the anomalies in the results, as sequential extraction schemes are greatly influenced by the type of extractants used, the operating conditions (pH, contact time and temperature) and the sequence in which the extraction steps are applied. VAN HULLEBUSCH et al. (2005) compared the sequential extraction procedure by TESSIER et al. (1979), the procedure according to STOVER et al. (1976), the BCR protocol and discussed the results of the fractionation of anaerobic metabolism of important metals (Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Mn and Fe). The phytofiltration of Cd and Zn by giant reed (A. donax L.) was described and published in previous papers (HORNÍK, et al. 2011; DÜREŠOVÁ et al., 2013; DÜREŠOVÁ et al., 2013). Sequential extraction has been successfully used for speciation study of elements in soils and other inorganic matrices (TESSIER, 1979; MEHLICH, 1953; MEHLICH, 1984; LINDSAY, 1978). However practical applicability for behaviour of toxic metals in plant tissues is rather limited. The use of Bereitgestellt von Slovenská poľnohospodárska knižnica | Heruntergeladen 16.01.20 16:05 UTC 40 Micháleková Richveisová, B. et al. method of sequential extraction of heavy metals in sewage sludge was reported in our previous paper FRIŠTÁK et al. (2012). The aim of this paper was to characterize mode of heavy metals binding in the process of root uptake and translocation to shoots in vascular plants. Giant reed (A. donax L.) grown in nutrient media spiked with 65Zn and 109Cd was used as a model plant. Sequential extraction of dried biomass was used in the presence of ligands able to bind heavy metal cations to complexes differing in stability constants log K and estimated in extracts by gamma-spectrometry. 2. Material and methods 2.1 Chemicals Deionized water (conductivity 0.054 μS/cm) was prepared with Simplicity 185 (Millipore, F). Commercially available chemicals of analytical grade, without pretreatment were used: dithizone (C13H12N4S; CAS: 60-10-6), chloroform, methanol. 2.2 Cultivation media Hoagland medium (mg/dm3): NH4NO3 – 160.1; H3BO3 – 8.5; Na2MoO4.2H2O – 0.06; MnSO4.5H2O – 5.0; ZnSO4.7H2O – 0.66; CuSO4.5H2O – 0.8; MgSO4.7H2O – 369.7; KNO3 – 404.4; CaCl2 – 443.9; NaH2PO4.2H2O – 291.7; Na2HPO4.12H2O – 46.5; FeSO4.7H2O – 17.9; NaNO3 – 339.9; NH4Cl – 213.9, pH 6.0. Basal medium was diluted with deionized water in the ratio 1:3. Mineral medium (MM) (mg/dm3): CoCl2.6H2O – 0.3; FeSO4.7H2O – 5.8; KH2PO4 – 23.4; MgSO4.7H2O – 41.0; CO(NH2)2– 91.7; NH4Cl – 12.8; CH3COONH4 – 79.4. Microelements (μg/dm3): CuSO4.5H2O – 80; H3BO3 – 850; MnSO4.5H2O – 500; Na2MoO4.2H2O – 6.0; ZnSO4.2H2O – 66, pH 5.5. 2.3 Plants Arundo donax L. (var. versicolor) was obtained from The Centre for Research of Plant Production (Piešťany, Slovak Republic). Plants originated from tissue cultures grown in nutrition media (MURASHIGE et SKOOG, 1962) supplemented with synthetic cytokinine 6-benzylaminopurine and α-naphthylacetic acid for micropropagation of plants. In the next step, plants were cultivated for 2-4 weeks in 25 % Hoagland nutrition media (HOAGLAND, 1920) in cultivation box Binder (Germany), type KBWF 720. Photoperiod light/dark 16h/8h at light intensity max 11 450 lx (stepwise 0, 40, 60 and 100 %) and at 28/15 °C, relative humidity 60-80 %. 2.4 Zinc and cadmium root uptake Pre-cultivated 20 plants (each approx. 20 cm, 40 mg d.w., shoot to root ratio 4:1 d.w.) were transferred to test tubes and cultivated in the first step for 24 h in mineral medium (MM), in the second step for 24 h in the same mineral medium supplemented with 65ZnCl2 and 109CdCl2 at 20 °C at day/night light cycle. Roots were washed in Bereitgestellt von Slovenská poľnohospodárska knižnica | Heruntergeladen 16.01.20 16:05 UTC Nova Biotechnologica et Chimica 13-1 (2014) 41 surplus of deionized water, roots and shoots were air dried, weighted and radioactivity was measured by gamma-spectrometry. 2.5 Extraction procedures Dried biomass (approx. 200 - 250 mg) divided to roots and shoots was separately treated according to scheme in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3. Presented data are averages of three independent experiments. 2.5.1 Sequential extraction of lipid fraction Shoot or root biomass (approx. 110 mg) were subsequently extracted with 2 mL Folch solution (CHCl3 : MeOH = 2 : 1) for 1 h at 25 °C according to the scheme in Fig. 3. Aliquots of extract solution removed from biomass and in both extract and biomass were 65Zn and 109Cd radioactivity by gamma-spectrometry measured. After this, all samples of biomass and FOLCH extracts were dried for 1 day at 25 °C. Subsequently, the dried samples were extracted with 2 cm3 1 mmol/dm3 chloroform solution of dithizone for 1 h at 25 °C. Extracts were removed from biomass and samples of wet biomass were weighted and retained volume of extractants was calculated by subtraction of dry biomass used in experiments. Concentration ratio of Zn and Cd species was calculated from the radioactivity of extracts and remaining biomass by gamma-spectrometry. 2.5.2 Sequential extraction combined with derivatization to dithizonates Biomass of A. donax (approx. 200-250 mg, d.w.) was separated to roots and shoots, air dried and extracted according to the scheme in Fig. 2. Shortly, in the first step, biomass was extracted with 2 cm3 0.1 mmol/dm3 dithizone for 1 h at 25 °C, in the next step biomass was extracted with chloroform solution of 1 mM dithizone, and in the last step with 0.1 mol/dm3 HCl. After each extraction the extract was removed, samples of wet biomass were weighted and retained volume of extractants was calculated by subtraction of dry biomass used in experiments. Concentration ratio of Zn and Cd species was calculated from the radioactivity of extracts and remaining biomass by gamma-spectrometry. 2.6 Radiometric analysis For determination of 65Zn and 109Cd gamma-spectrometric scintillation detectors 54BP54/2-x and 76BP76/3 with well type crystal Na(Tl) (Scionix, NL) and data processing software ScintiVission-32 (Ortec, USA) were used. A library of radionuclides was built by selecting characteristic γ-ray peaks (88.04 keV for 109Cd and 1115.52 keV for 65Zn) for energy and efficiency calibration. Standardized solution of 65ZnCl2 (4.90 MBq/cm 3; 0.05 g/dm3 ZnCl2 in 3 g/dm 3 HCl) and 109CdCl2 (3.94 MBq/cm3; 0.05 g/dm3 CdCl2 in 3 g/dm 3 HCl) was provided from the Czech Metrological Institute (Prague, CR). Bereitgestellt von Slovenská poľnohospodárska knižnica | Heruntergeladen 16.01.20 16:05 UTC 42 Micháleková Richveisová, B. et al. 3. Results and discussion Giant reed (A. donax) was grown in liquid nutrient media spiked with 65Zn and 109Cd at subtoxic concentrations 11.0 μmol/dm3 ZnCl2 and 11.0 μmol/dm 3 CdCl2. It was found that zinc and cadmium were distributed between roots and shoots in the ratio 6.6:1 for Cd and 5.4:1 for Zn. The ratio of specific radioactivity (Bq/g, d.w.) of root biomass to specific radioactivity of shoots biomass calculated from 20 plants of A. donax was 33.7:1 for Cd and 11.9:1 for Zn. This phenomenon can be explained by higher mobility of zinc as microelement comparing with mobility of phytotoxic cadmium, which is retained in root biomass with higher efficiency. Speciation of zinc and cadmium in plants Speciation of heavy metals entering the plant tissues plays decisive role in the both long distance and short distance transport of these metals in plant and is responsible for phytotoxic behaviour of heavy metals and participation in metabolic processes. For solving these problems in our experiments we combined sequential extraction procedures and derivatization of plant zinc and cadmium by complexing ligands (Fig. 1). 2 + M2+ Fig.1. Reaction of dithizone (I) with bivalent metals M2+resulting in metal dithizonates formation (II). Dithizone is able to react with free Zn2+ and Cd2+ ions and also with zinc and cadmium bound in complexes with many organic and inorganic compounds bearing anionic groups such as carboxylic acids, amino acids, inorganic and organic phosphates. Concentration equilibrium of this substitution reaction depends on log K values of stability constants of corresponding metal ligands. Stability constants of synthetic complexing ligands such as EDTA, NTA and dithizone are higher within orders than stability constants for components of plant tissues (Table 1). Synthetic complexing ligand could therefore serve as an efficient tool for speciation analysis of microelements and toxic metals entering plant tissues. The main advantage of dithizone comparing with EDTA is high solubility of Zn and Cd dithizonate in organic solvents e.g. in chloroform and it can be quantitatively separated from reaction mixture and at utilization of radiotracer methods determined by common radio- analytical equipments. I K II Bereitgestellt von Slovenská poľnohospodárska knižnica | Heruntergeladen 16.01.20 16:05 UTC Nova Biotechnologica et Chimica 13-1 (2014) 43 . Table 1. Stability constants log K of naturally occurring and synthetic metal-ligand complexes. log K Ligand Zn2+ Cd2+ Naturally occurring Acetic acid 1.59 c 1.7 c Glutamic acid 5.45 a 4.78 b Histidine 6.6 c 5.65 b Cysteine 9.8 c 10.30 a ADP 4.28 c - ZnH3Phytate 7.81 d - Triphosphates 9.7 c - Synthetic NTA 10.45 c 9.8 b EDTA 16.5 b 16.5 b Other organic ligands 0.8-21.9 e 0.9-23.3 e a BOTTARI and FESTA (1997); b CHRISTENSEN and IZATT (1983); c MARTELL (1964); d CREA et al. (2008); e SOLOVJEV et al. (2012) Fig. 2. Sequential extraction of dried A. donax biomass (~ 110 mg, d.w.) combined with Zn and Cd complexation with dithizone in situ without removal of lipid fraction. Plants grown in mineral medium (MM) at C0 = 11 μmol/dm3 ZnCl2 and 11 μmol/dm3 CdCl2. In our experiments (Fig. 2), dried plant biomass was treated with 0.1 and 1.0 mmol/dm3 dithizone in chloroform at 20 °C. This procedure leads to conversion of Zn Bereitgestellt von Slovenská poľnohospodárska knižnica | Heruntergeladen 16.01.20 16:05 UTC 44 Micháleková Richveisová, B. et al. and Cd species to corresponding dithizonates and their extraction to chloroform phase. Gamma-spectrometry showed, that in root biomass after double extraction was 78 % Zn and 76 % Cd in non-ion-exchangeable form, which was soluble in 0.1 mol/dm3 HCl. Similar ratios were obtained in shoot biomass, where after double extraction was in non-ion-exchangeable form 66 % Zn and 57 % Cd. Residual proportion in biomass after extraction with 0.1 mol/dm3 HCl represented ≤3%, which defines metal binding to metalloproteins or other biomass compartments, which can be for example for steric reasons unavailable in reaction with such effective ligand as HCl. The data are presented in Table 2. Table 2. Ion-exchangeable (dithizonate) and non-ion-exchangeable (non dithizonate) forms of Zn and Cd in A. donax estimated by in situ conversion of metals to corresponding metal-dithizone complexes with the following extraction into chloroform. a Sum of the data of the subsequent reaction with 0.1 mmol/dm3 and 1 mmol/dm3 dithizone in chloroform. Fig. 3. Sequential extraction of dried A. donax biomass (~ 110 mg d.w.) combined with Zn and Cd complexation with dithizone in situ after removal of lipid fraction by Folch reagents. Root (%) Shoot (%) Fraction Zn Cd Zn Cd Total biomass 100 100 100 100 Dithizonate (a) 22 24 34 43 Non dithizonate 78 76 66 57 HCl soluble 75 74.5 66 54 HCl insoluble 3 1.5 0 3 Bereitgestellt von Slovenská poľnohospodárska knižnica | Heruntergeladen 16.01.20 16:05 UTC Nova Biotechnologica et Chimica 13-1 (2014) 45 After removal of lipid fraction from biomass (Fig. 3) we found, that Zn entering the plant via root of A. donax L. from very diluted solutions (11 μmol/dm3 ZnCl2 and 11 μmol/dm3 CdCl2) was not distributed in root and shoot lipid fraction, or only in small quantities. Zn was localized in non-lipid fraction, in forms which are not available for reaction with dithizone in non-polar organic solvent immiscible with water, or is bound to a chemical forms in ion non-exchangeable form (e.g. proteins, nucleic acid…). Cadmium is bound in high quantities in root lipid fraction (48 %) and shoot lipid fraction (18 %). Derivatization of dried root and shoot lipid fraction by dithizone showed that two third of Cd in root and practically all Cd in shoot lipid fraction could be transformed to Cd-dithizonate. In shoot lipid fraction, substantial part of cadmium is in ion-exchangeable form (16 % total). In root, the proportion of metal in non-ion- exchangeable form is higher (15 %). In shoot non lipid fraction, Cd in ion- exchangeable form is practically in comparable amount as Zn (Cd 41 % and Zn 38 %), but in root non-lipid fraction is higher (Zn 8 % and Cd 18 %). Prevailing part of the zinc in root (up to 92 % of the total) and cadmium (up to 34 % of total) remaining in non-lipid fraction was not convertible to dithizonate. Similarly, high proportion of zinc and cadmium remained in non-lipid fraction of shoots (62 % of total zinc and 41 % of total cadmium). All data are presented in Table 3. Table 3. Ion-exchangeable and non-ion-exchangeable forms of Zn and Cd in lipid and non-lipid fraction of root and shoot tissues of A. donax. See Table 2 for details. Many papers confirmed (see e.g. HIROSHI et al., 1994) that both Zn and Cd dithizonate in chloroform extract can be completely converted to water soluble form by re-extraction with EDTA solution what gives the next opportunity of speciation analysis of microelements and toxic metals entering the plant tissues via root and foliar uptake as well as for speciation analysis of metal ions sorbed on sorbents with many different metal binding active centres. 4. Conclusions Experiments with giant reed (A. donax) plants grown in the presence of non-phytotoxic concentration of 65ZnCl2 and 109CdCl2 in nutrient media showed that metals are transported from roots to shoots reaching root-to-shoot ratio 6.6:1 and 5.4: 1 for cadmium and zinc, respectively. Treatment of dried plant biomass with dithizone showed that up to 24 % of Cd and 22 % of Zn incorporated in root and up to 43% of Cd and 34% of Zn incorporated in shoot can be transformed to dithizonate complexes. Root (%) Shoot (%) Fraction Zn Cd Zn Cd Total biomass 100 100 100 100 Lipid fraction 0 48 0 18 Dithizonate 0 33 0 16 Non dithizonate 0 15 0 2 Non lipid fraction Dithizonate 8 18 38 41 Non dithizonate 92 34 62 41 Bereitgestellt von Slovenská poľnohospodárska knižnica | Heruntergeladen 16.01.20 16:05 UTC 46 Micháleková Richveisová, B. et al. Sequential extraction of plants biomass, treatment of extracts and solids by complexing ligands provide metal-ligand complexes of various stabilities. Radiotracer methods can be a powerful tool for the study of long distance transport and speciation analysis of bivalent metals entering the plant tissues via root system. 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