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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 812, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151469
Keywords
Crop straw biochar; Acidic soil; Arsenic toxicity; Soybean growth; Arsenic uptake
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The addition of organic amendments can enhance soybean growth in arsenic-contaminated soil by increasing plant height, biomass, and chlorophyll content, while reducing the accumulation of harmful substances such as proline, MDA, H2O2, and O2-. The use of peanut straw biochar showed better results.
In different regions of the world, arsenic (As) contaminated soils poses a serious threat to plant growth and its physiological processes. Organic amendments are a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to improve plant growth under stress conditions in contaminated soils. In As polluted acidic ultisol, a greenhouse trial was conducted to investigate the protective effects of peanut straw biochar (PSB) and canola straw biochar (CSB) on soybean mineral nutrition, antioxidant enzymes, and physiological growth parameters. The current study used eighteen treatments with different levels of As ((1) 0 mg kg-1, (2) 30 mg kg-1, (3) 60 mg kg-1) and biochar (PSB and CSB) (0%, 1%, and 2%). The result suggests that biochar addition under As stress in highly weathered acidic ultisol soil increased soybean growth attributes and defense mechanisms. The PSB was more effective than the CSB in a dose-dependent manner. The application of 2% PSB in polluted soil resulted in significant increases in soybean height (58%), biomass production (root (44%) and shoot length (52%)), chlorophyll contents (92%), soybean functional leaves (62%), total soluble sugars (TSS) (71%) and base cations (Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, Na+). However, biochar application decreased proline, MDA, H2O2, and O2- by 64%, 82%, 49%, and 45% respectively. Furthermore, biochar application increased (Phosphate) P and As uptake in soybean, with PSB application exhibiting a greater increase than CSB application. As a result, crop straw-derived biochar can reduce Asinduced soybean plant damage and insert a protective effect in As-contaminated acidic ultisol soils. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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