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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOREMEDIATION
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 372-379Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/15226514.2018.1524843
Keywords
Aquatic macrophytes; diclofenac; Green Liver System (R); Microcystin-LR; paracetamol; phytoremediation
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- CAPES (Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior)
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The Irai Reservoir, a water supply in Brazil, is constantly impacted by anthropogenic activities such as waste inputs from agriculture, hospitals and urbanization, resulting toxic cyanobacterial blooms causing economic, social and environmental problems. This study assessed the concentration of some common contaminants of the Irai Reservoir, namely paracetamol, diclofenac and microcystin-LR and tested whether a laboratory scale Green Liver System (R) would serve as a suitable technology to remove these contaminants. Further, the study investigated whether the pollutants caused adverse effects to the macrophytes using catalase as a biomarker for oxidative stress and investigated whether biotransformation (glutathione S-transferase) was a main route for detoxification. Egeria densa, Ceratophyllum demersum and Myriophyllum aquaticum were exposed to a mixture of the three contaminants for 14 days in a concentration range similar to those detected in the reservoir. The plants removed 93% of diclofenac and 100% of MC-LR after 14 days. Paracetamol could not be detected. Catalase and glutathione S-transferase enzyme activities remained unaltered after the 14-day exposure, indicating that the mixture did not cause oxidative stress. The study showed that the aquatic macrophytes used are suitable tools to apply in a Green Liver System (R) for the remediation of mixed pollutants.
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