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Morphological Variation of Theobroma cacao L. Affected by Increasing Doses of Heavy Metals

Morphological Variation of Theobroma cacao L. Affected by Increasing Doses of Heavy Metals

Robinson Torres Ronquillo1, Manuel Carrillo Zenteno2, Wuellins Durango Cabanilla2, Diego Franco Ochoa1, César Quinaluisa Morán1, Seyed Mehdi Jazayeri3,4, Gregorio Vásconez Montufar5, E. Rajasekhar6, Naga Raju Maddela7* and Ronald Villamar-Torres1,5*

1Instituto Superior Tecnológico, Ciudad de Valencia,. Sector El Pital #1, Predios Universidad Técnica de Babahoyo-Extensión Quevedo, Ecuador; 2Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias-INIAP. Estación Experimental Tropical Pichilingue, cantón Mocache, Los Ríos. Ecuador; 3Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Biología, Bogotá, Colombia; 4Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Tehran, Iran; 5Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Finca Experimental La María, Cantón Quevedo, Los Ríos. Ecuador; 6Department of Physics, Rayalaseema University, Kurnool-518007, India; 7Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Portoviejo-130105, Ecuador.


*Correspondence | Ronald Villamar-Torres and Naga Raju Maddela, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo, Los Ríos, Ecuador; Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Portoviejo-130105. Ecuador; Email: [email protected], [email protected] 

Figure 1:

Cacao plant stem diameter (mm) and plant height (cm) (a) and chlorophyl content (b) as affected by different concentrations of mercury (Hg).

Figure 2:

Effects of different concentrations of lead (Pb) on cacao plant stem diameter (mm) and plant height (cm) (a) and chlorophyl content (b).

Figure 3:

Cacao plant stem diameter (mm) and plant height (cm) (a) and chlorophyl content (b) as affected by different concentrations of copper (Cu).

Figure 4:

Cacao plant stem diameter (mm) and plant height (cm) (a) and chlorophyl content (b) as affected by different concentrations of cadmium (Cd).

Sarhad Journal of Agriculture

December

Vol.40, Iss. 4, Pages 1102-1532

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