“…The growth, development, photosynthetic activity, productivity, and mineral nutrition of wheat (Triticum durum), maize (Zea mays), pea (Pisum sativum), and lentil (Lens esculenta) cultivars was also found to be diversely affected by a cyanobacterial extract with MC-LR (36). It was also noted that, both submerged and emergent, aquatic plants absorb MC-LR from low external concentrations, and accumulate it in the shoot tissue (39,45,46). Furthermore, when exposed to MC-LR, aquatic plants exhibited an inhibition of growth and photosynthetic oxygen production, while their chlorophyll pigments became bleached (47).…”