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Stable Isotope Ratios Trace the Rice Uptake of Cadmium from Atmospheric Deposition via Leaves and Roots

Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 57, Issue 44, Pages 16873-16883

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c04820

Keywords

open-top chambers; atmospherically deposited cadmium; foliar uptake; node; soil geochemistry; cadmium fraction

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The fate of Cd in the environment was investigated using Cd stable isotopes, and it was found that leaves play a major role in the uptake and translocation of Cd in rice plants, contributing more to Cd in grains compared to roots. Leaves preferentially take up Cd from dry deposition, while roots prefer wet deposition as the source of Cd.
Cadmium (Cd) stable isotopes provide a novel technique to investigate the fate of Cd in the environment, but challenges exist for tracing the sources in the plants. We performed individual rice leaf and root exposures to dry and wet deposition using customized open-top chambers (OTCs) in the greenhouse and in the field next to a smelter, respectively. The field experiment also included a control without Cd deposition and a full treatment. The exposure experiments and isotope signatures showed that leaves can directly take up atmospheric Cd and then translocate within rice plants to other tissues, contributing 52-70% of Cd in grains, which exceeded the contribution (30-48%) by root exposure. The Cd isotopes in leaves, nodes, internodes, and grains demonstrate that roots preferentially take up Cd from wet deposition, but leaves favor uptake of Cd from dry deposition. The Cd uptake by leaves is redistributed via nodes, allowing for upward transport to the grains but preventing downward transport to the roots. Leaves favor uptake of heavy isotopes from atmospheric deposition (Delta Cd-Leaf-Dust(114/110): 0.10 +/- 0.02 parts per thousand) but retain light isotopes and transport heavy isotopes to the nodes and further to grains. These findings highlight the contribution of atmospheric deposition to rice and Cd isotopes as a useful tracer for quantifying sources in plants when different isotopic compositions are in sources.

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