1. Phytoremediation for Co-contaminated Soils of Cadmium and Polychlorinated Biphenyls Using the Ornamental Plant Tagetes patula L
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Joginder Singh, Qingzi Zhao, Qiqi Shen, Wei Wang, Xiaona Shang, Ramasamy Rajesh Kumar, Sayan Paul, Zijiang Wang, and Xinyu Miao
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Contaminated soils ,Cadmium ,biology ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Biomass ,General Medicine ,Toxicology ,biology.organism_classification ,Pollution ,Polychlorinated Biphenyls ,Tagetes ,Phytoremediation ,Soil ,Biodegradation, Environmental ,Single effect ,chemistry ,Environmental chemistry ,Ornamental plant ,Ecotoxicology ,Environmental science ,Soil Pollutants ,Tagetes patula - Abstract
In this study, pot-culture experiments were conducted to investigate the single effect of Cd, PCBs, and the combined effect of Cd-PCBs with Tagetes patula L. The study highlights that the minimum concentration of PCBs (100 µg kg−1) could enable the growth of the plant with an increase in biomass by 27.76% when compared with the control. In all the experiments performed, the Cd concentrations over the surface parts were found to be above 100 mg kg−1. Significant positive correlations were observed between the Cd and PCBs concentrations accumulated in tissues of the soil and plants (p
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- 2020