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Growth Responses and Metal Accumulation in an Ornamental Plant (Osmanthus fragrans var. thunbergii) Submitted to Different Cd Levels

Table 3

Bioaccumulation coefficient (BC), transport factor from concentration (Tf) and from accumulation (Tf), and tolerance index (Ti) of (Means ± SD, ) of O. fragrans var. thunbergii under different Cd supplies treatments.


		BC	Tf	Tf	Ti

Cd	CK	0.77 ± 0.05	1.20 ± 0.06	1.47 ± 0.04	1.00
	T1	0.66 ± 0.04	1.19 ± 0.43	1.08 ± 0.09	0.86 ± 0.05
	T2	0.60 ± 0.13	1.40 ± 0.23	1.45 ± 0.23	0.24 ± 0.06
	T3	0.37 ± 0.12	1.59 ± 0.31	1.43 ± 0.32	0.18 ± 0.03
	T4	0.27 ± 0.02	2.39 ± 0.13	1.40 ± 0.10	0.11 ± 0.03

Pb	CK	0.03 ± 0.01	5.68 ± 0.10	7.22 ± 0.63	—
	T1	0.05 ± 0.01	7.60 ± 0.66	6.85 ± 0.59	—
	T2	0.06 ± 0.00	6.66 ± 0.32	6.75 ± 0.15	—
	T3	0.07 ± 0.02	4.68 ± 0.42	4.34 ± 0.18	—
	T4	0.08 ± 0.01	1.87 ± 0.16	1.11 ± 0.04	—

Zn	CK	0.26 ± 0.00	0.45 ± 0.00	0.59 ± 0.04	—
	T1	0.27 ± 0.00	0.51 ± 0.00	0.45 ± 0.05	—
	T2	0.22 ± 0.01	0.52 ± 0.00	0.54 ± 0.03	—
	T3	0.19 ± 0.01	0.51 ± 0.01	0.50 ± 0.04	—
	T4	0.18 ± 0.02	0.64 ± 0.01	0.36 ± 0.01	—

Cu	CK	0.62 ± 0.01	0.26 ± 0.02	0.33 ± 0.08	—
	T1	0.63 ± 0.24	0.30 ± 0.08	0.26 ± 0.07	—
	T2	0.52 ± 0.09	0.31 ± 0.09	0.31 ± 0.08	—
	T3	0.45 ± 0.04	0.34 ± 0.02	0.30 ± 0.02	—
	T4	0.20 ± 0.08	1.00 ± 0.23	0.56 ± 0.05	—