The plant-soil relationship has been scarcely studied in agaves, and several questions remain to be elucidated such as their ability uptake, transport and storage mineral nutrients, the cellular and biochemical mechanisms involved in these processes, or if the agaves are specially sensitive or tolerant to metal ions. Here we report the effect on Agave tequilana young plants after exposure to cadmium, cobalt, cupper, zinc or manganese sulfate at several concentrations, under lab conditions. We also report the minimal concentration of these metal ions required to induce a toxic effect detectable with visual inspection in short exposition times (8 days); we describe the toxic effects of these metal ions on the agave plantlets and the amount of Cu2+, Cd2+ and Co2+ accumulated in leaves of plants exposed to high metal concentrations (milimolar).
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