采用水培实验,研究不同pH值条件下镍对大麦的急性毒性.结果表明,当溶液pH值从4.5增加到8.3,以Ni^2+活度表示的大麦根伸长的半抑制浓度[EC50(Ni^2+)]降低了86%.基于生物配体模型理论方程的线性分析表明,pH值改变引起的EC50(Ni^2+)的变化不完全是H+竞争的作用.在形态分析的基础上,采用剂量效应方程对数据进行了拟合,同时考虑了Ni^2+和NiCO3毒性以及H^+竞争后,显著提高了方程的拟合程度,预测和实测大麦根伸长也具有较好的相关性(R^2=0.95).因此,pH值的改变导致H+与生物配体(大麦根)结合的Ni^2+竞争,并引起Ni^2+向NiCO3形态的转化.
The effect of pH on the acute toxicity of nickel to barley root elongation was investigated in solution culture. The effective concentrations,which reduced root elongation by 50%,based on free Ni^2+ activity(EC50(Ni^2+)) reduced about 10 times when pH was from 4.5 to 8.3. Based on biotic ligand model theory,the nonlinear relationship between EC50(Ni^2+) and H^+ activity in this study indicated that the increased toxicity with increasing pH was not only due to decreasing H^+ competition. The logistic dose-response curve showed that considering the H+ competition and NiCO3 plus Ni^2+ as the dose improved the data fit significantly(R^2=0.95) than only the free Ni^2+ activity was considered. Thus,the effects of pH on nickel acute toxicity to barley need to consider H^+ competition for biotic ligand(barley root) and NiCO3 transformed from free Ni^2+.