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ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 67, Issue 1, Pages 139-144Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2009.06.014
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Enrichment coefficient; Phytoremediation; Plant; Soil; Strontium uptake; Translocation factor
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This study investigated the distribution and accumulation of strontium (Sr) in the shoots and roots of Euphorbia macroclada (EU), Verbascum cheiranthifolium (VR), and Astragalus gummifer (AS), with respect to their potential use in phytoremediation. Plant samples and their associated soils were collected from the arid and semi-arid Keban mining area and were analyzed inductively by ICP-MS for Sr. Mean Sr values in the shoots, roots and soil were, respectively, 453. 243 and 398 mg kg(-1) for E. macroclada: 149, 106 and 398 mg kg(-1) for V. cheiranthifolium; and 278, 223 and 469 mg kg(-1) for A. gummifer. The enrichment factors for root (ECR) and shoot (ECS) of these plants were lower than I or close to 1, except for the shoot of E. macroclada. The mean translocation factors (TLF) of these plants were higher than I and 2.08 for E. macroclada, 1.47 for V. cheiranthifolium, 1.18 for A. gummifer. It thus appeared that the shoots of these plants can be an efficient bioaccumulator plant for Sr and it can be used in cleaning or rehabilitating of the contaminated soil and areas by Sr because of their high translocation factors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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