Journal
CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 182, Issue -, Pages 501-508Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.05.038
Keywords
Trace elements; Plant uptake; Adhering soil particles; Phytorerhediation; Bio-monitoring
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- FNR (Agency for Renewable Resources, Gulzow, Germany) [22041611, 22014813]
- MWK (Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Hannover, Germany) [VWZN2454]
- StMELF (Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry) [EW/12/42, N/15/08]
- BMEL (German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Berlin)
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Trace element concentrations in plants may be influenced by airborne dust or adhering soil particles. Neglecting adhering particles in plant tissue leads to misinterpretation of trace element concentrations in research fields such as phytomining, phytoremediation, bio-monitoring, uptake of micronutrients and provenance studies. In case washing or brushing the samples prior to analysis is insufficient or impossible due to fragile or pre-processed samples mathematical correction should be applied. In this study three methods are presented allowing to subtract the influence of adhering particles in order to obtain the element concentrations in plants resulting only from uptake. All mathematical models are based on trace elements with negligible soil to plant transfer. A prerequisite for the correction methods is trace element analytics with good accuracy and high precision, e.g. through complete acid digestion. In a data set of 1040 plant samples grown in open field and pot trials most plants show a small but detectable amount of adhering particles. While concentrations of nutrients are nearly unaffected trace element concentrations such as Al, Cd, Co, Cr, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, REEs, Ti and U may be significantly altered. Different sampling techniques like cutting height can also significantly alter the concentrations measured in the samples. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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