International Journal of Environmental Science and Development

Abstract—Part of hypotheses point out the quantity of plant secondary metabolites will increase in order to adapt environmental stress. Secondary metabolites accumulation of scutellarin in Erigeron breviscapus was investigated under different heavy metal stress. The results showed that exposure to cadmium, chromium and mercury stress scutellarin content of stem was higher sometimes, but its change from stress of copper and arsenic were opposite. In leaf and flower, scutellarin concentration was also decrease rapidly. So we inferred that after toxic substances entry into plant body, level of some secondary metabolites will exhibit decrease trend in some extent, and not only enhanced any time. Therefore, the change of secondary metabolites in medicine plant should attract more attention under stress environment in future.

Index Terms—Inhibit, scutellarin, secondary metabolites, stress.

Huabin Xiong, Changqun Duan and Huabin Xiong are with Institute of Environmental Science and Ecological Restoration & Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resource of Yunnan, Yunnan University, China (e-mail: 344192363@qq.com; cn-ecology@ 126.com).
Xinxiang A is with Biotechnology and Germplasm Research Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agriculture Sciences, China.

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Cite:Huabin Xiong, Changqun Duan, Xinxiang A, and Minghong Chen, "Response of Scutellarin Content to Heavy Metals in Erigeron Breviscapus," International Journal of Environmental Science and Development vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 277-281, 2013.