Journal
ECOTOXICOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 7, Pages 790-800Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-019-02077-3
Keywords
Alkaline phosphatase; Cadmium; Hormesis; Lead; Hormesis in soil
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41471191]
- Qing Lan project
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In soil ecosystems, it is very challenging to predict mixture hormesis effects. In the present study, soil alkaline phosphatase (ALP) was selected to investigate and predict its potential hormetic responses under Cd and Pb stresses. Typical reverse U-shaped dose-response relationships between ALP activities and the single and combined Cd and Pb were observed, showing a hormetic response of soil itself. The maximum stimulatory magnitudes ranged in 8.0 - 8.6% under 0.004 - 0.2 mg/kg Cd and 80 - 400 mg/kg Pb, respectively. An enhanced stimulation of 15.7% occurred under the binary mixtures of 0.6 mg/kg Cd and 200 mg/kg Pb. In addition, a dosage-independent binary linear regression model was proposed based on an assumption of a linear relationship between the single and combined hormetic responses under Cd and Pb. Our model can well predict ALP's responses in the presence of the two metals' mixtures (p < 0.1). Our findings provided new understandings to hormesis in soil.
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