Cadmium Phytoremediation by Arundo donax L. from Contaminated Soil and Water

Abstract

The potential of Arundo donax L. for phytoextraction of cadmium (Cd) from contaminated soil and water was probed. The plants were grown under greenhouse conditions in pots containing a nutrient solution or soil with increasing doses of Cd (0, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, and 1000  μ g L ⁻¹) for 21 days. The growth and physiology of plants were evaluated at the end of the experiment. The maximum Cd content in root was 300  μ g g ⁻¹ during hydroponics experiments over 230  μ g g ⁻¹ in soil experiment. Cd concentration in stem was 262  μ g g ⁻¹ at 750  μ g L ⁻¹ supplied Cd in hydroponics over 191.2  μ g g ⁻¹ at 1000 in soil experiment. The maximum Cd concentration in leaves from hydroponics was 187  μ g g ⁻¹. Relatively low Cd uptake occurred during soil experiment with low translocation factor (TF) values. Both Bioaccumulation Factor (BF) and TF values for hydroponics were greater than 1. The IC ₅₀ values of ABTS and DPPH showed that both time and increasing Cd concentrations affected the production of antioxidants with lower half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC ₅₀) value on the 21st days. A. donax showed better potential for Cd remediation of aquatic environments.

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Biomed Res Int

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Biomed Res Int

Journal ID (publisher-id): BMRI

Title: BioMed Research International

Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation

ISSN (Print): 2314-6133

ISSN (Electronic): 2314-6141

Publication date (Print): 2013

Publication date (Electronic): 31 December 2013

Volume: 2013

Affiliations

¹Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan

²Department of Natural Resource Engineering and Management, University of Kurdistan Hewlêr, Kurdistan, Iraq

³Department of Chemistry, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan

⁴Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences, KPK Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan

⁵Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Defence Road, Off Raiwind Road, Lahore, Pakistan

Author notes

*Qaisar Mahmood: mahmoodzju@ 123456gmail.com

Academic Editor: Fernando Barbosa Jr.

Article

DOI: 10.1155/2013/324830

PMC ID: 3888719

Copyright statement: Copyright © 2013 Maria Sabeen et al.

License:

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Categories

Subject: Research Article