Impacts of four ionic liquids exposure on a marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum at physiological and biochemical levels

LipidTOX: A fatty acid-based index efficient for ecotoxicological studies with marine model diatoms exposed to legacy and emerging contaminants

“…Due to its cosmopolitan distribution (Cabrita et al, 2017), fully sequenced genome (Bowler et al, 2008), and role as biomonitor species able to reflect early signs of stress, Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin (Bacillariophyceae) has gained a significant role in stress biology and ecotoxicological studies. Several studies have used this species as model to study the effects of a wide array of contaminants namely heavy metals (Cabrita et al, 2017;Cid et al, 1995), metal nanoparticles (Franzitta et al, 2020;Li et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2016), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons , biocides (Du et al, 2019), surfactants (Pavlić et al, 2005), ionic liquids (Chen et al, 2019) and pharmaceutical residues (Duarte et al, 2021c), among several others. Thus it is a highly relevant species for ecotoxicology purposes and the development of indexes based in its physiological response to contaminants is of added value for ecotoxicological studies (Duarte et al, 2021c;Pires et al, 2021;Rodrigues et al, 2021).…”

The reaction of cucumber to the introduction of ionic liquids into the soil

“…The majority of these studies prove that ILs are compounds that interfere with normal metabolism and cause changes in cell structures, including damage to photosynthetic pigments, and influence the fluorescence parameters of chlorophyll. The authors report an even linear decrease in assimilation pigments content in plants with an increase in ILs medium (Biczak 2017 ; Chen et al 2018 , 2019 ; Deng et al 2017 ; Liu et al 2014 , 2015 , 2016a , 2018b ; Wang et al 2009 ; Xia et al 2018 ; Xu et al 2018 ).…”

“…The family of metalloenzymes, generally referred to as SOD, is responsible for the decomposition of superoxide radicals into H 2 O 2 and O 2 . This important transformation determines that the activity of SOD is always determined in works describing the activity of the antioxidant mechanism in plants subjected to various stress factors (Biczak 2017 ; Chen et al 2014 , 2018 , 2019 ; Fan et al 2019 ; Liu et al 2014 , 2016a and b; Zhang et al 2013 ). However, the analysis of the results presented in the available literature does not allow to draw clear conclusions as to the direction of changes in SOD activity in plants for which the presence of ILs in their growth environment is an abiotic stress factor.…”

Ionic liquid-based antimicrobial materials for water treatment, air filtration, food packaging and anticorrosion coatings

“…The toxicity of imidazolium (1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium nitrate and 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride) and pyridinium (Noctyl-3-metylpyridinium chloride and -octyl-3-metylpyridinium bromide) containing ionic liquids on a marine diatom, Phaeodactylum tricornutum has been investigated; significant inhibition in growth and photosynthesis was observed [75]. The toxic effect of chiral enantiomers of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium tartrates (D-(+)-RMIM T and L-(+)-RMIM T) on algae, Scenedesmus obliquus has been examined; chiral ionic liquids caused oxidative stress in S. obliquus.…”