Plant heavy metal concentrations. In the current study, 12 plant species were selected from both highways and railways, comprising seven species from highways and four from railways. The results presented in Table 2 reveal a significant variation in heavy metal enrichment across different plants and even within distinct tissues of the …
The effects of Cd stress on plant growth. The net growth in plant height decreased with increasing Cd concentration, but there were no significant differences among treatments (P < 0.05).The net ...
ore deposits as greenockite (CdS). The principal source of cadmium is zinc ore, sphalerite. Other sulphides and sulphosalts may also carry small amounts of the metal. In India, cadmium is recovered as a by-product during zinc smelting and refining. The concentration of cadmium in sphalerite, the principal ore of zinc, ranges from 0.03 to …
This review discusses the deleterious effects of Cd in plants and the tolerance and resistance mechanisms that evolved to help mitigate cadmium toxicity.
To obtain direct evidence for the translocation of cadmium (Cd) via the phloem, we measured the Cd concentrations in the phloem sap of 5-week-old rice plants (Oryza sativa L. cv. Kantou) treated wi...
Main conclusion This review provides new insight that calcium plays important roles in plant growth, heavy metal accumulation and translocation, photosynthesis, oxidative damage and signal transduction under cadmium stress. Increasing heavy metal pollution problems have raised word-wide concerns. Cadmium …
1. Introduction. Cadmium (Cd) is one of the most harmful and widespread pollutants in agricultural soils, and expresses a direct contact risk to both human and ecological receptors due to its relatively high toxicity and plant readily uptake [1], [2].Cereals especially rice, the staple food in East Asia, is a major source of Cd intake.
during the analysis of a zinc carbonate ore sample. Stromeyer named the ... concentration of cadmium in fertilizers can vary depending on the source and ... cadmium in the soil. In acidic soils, this can lead to enhanced cadmium uptake by plants, posing risks to food safety. 6. Plant Uptake and Root Exudates: Plants can influence cadmium ...
Cadmium toxicity causes the over-production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and results in damage to plant membranes and destruction of cell biomolecules and organelles ( Abbas et al., 2017 ). Cadmium also reduces plant uptake of Fe and Zn, …
Sedum alfredii Hance is a cadmium (Cd) hyperaccumulator plant in China, although its detoxification mechanism remains unresolved. In our study, we cloned a gene belonging to the plant cadmium resistance (PCR) family, named SaPCR2, from the hyperaccumulating ecotype (HE) of S. alfredii.
This article reviews the published data on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of cadmium uptake by plants, its metabolic transformations, effects on nutrient status of …
In Cd-As-contaminated soil, the application of an appropriate SF concentration can effectively reduce Cd and As availability in rice paddy soil, the Cd and As concentrations in soil pore water during the growth period, and the Cd and As contents in the rice plant tissues.
Co-utilization of sepiolite and ferromanganese ore reduces rice Cd and As concentrations via soil immobilization and root Fe-Mn plaque resistance. ... Cadmium (Cd) and arsenic (As), common toxic elements in farmland soil, are easily absorbed by rice and accumulate in grains. ... and the Cd and As contents in the rice plant tissues. In …
Cadmium (Cd) is present in many soils and, when entering the food chain, represents a major health threat to humans. Reducing Cd accumulation in plants is complicated by the fact that most known Cd transporters also …
The heavy metal cadmium (Cd), as one of the major environmentally toxic pollutants, has serious impacts on the growth, development, and physiological functions of plants and animals, leading to deterioration of environmental quality and threats to human health. Research on how plants absorb and transport Cd, as well as its enrichment and …
Human activities, such as ore mining, industrial effluents and gas discharge, chemical fertilizer and pesticide use, ... Different lowercase letters indicate significant differences in cadmium concentration in plants treated with different concentrations of biochar under the same microorganism treatment. The asterisk represents the significant ...
This process plays an important role in the worldwide cadmium cycle but rarely leads to an increase in cadmium concentration in any environmental range. ... ore transportation, smelting-refining, ... resulting in a plant's internal concentration several times higher than the surrounding environment.
Highlights • Cadmium exposure rapidly induces an oxidative challenge in plants. • Cadmium increases reactive oxygen species levels in different compartments. • …
The hazardous heavy cadmium (Cd) metal deposits into soil through various anthropogenic activities. It is harmful to both animals and plants, causing physiochemical, morphological, and structural changes in plants and malfunctioning of multi-organ and ultimately...
This review highlights the novel hypothesis that silicon alleviates cadmium-induced damage to plants through the ability to alter water relations to dilute the cadmium concentration in plant tissues. 2 Silicon enhances plant growth under cadmium toxicity. Cadmium accumulation can severely inhibit plant growth.
Cadmium (Cd) is one of the non-essential, extremely harmful contaminants that are generating major environmental and agricultural issues globally. From germination to …
Elevated concentrations of these metals, however, can be toxic and induce inhibition of various plant metabolic processes (reviewed, e.g., in [1–3]). Cadmium can occur in very high concentrations in the soil that are detrimental or even lethal to most plants, as described in more detail in Chapters 2 and 13 of this book.
3.1. Factors affecting cadmium concentration of crops and controlling accumulation in agriculture. The lack of a consistent relationship between levels of cadmium in soil and the concentration of cadmium in crops presents uncertainty in defining risk factors associated with potential food contamination (Smolders, 2001).
The concentration of zinc, lead and silver in the mineralized rock extracted from the Jayula and Tesorera pits in the San Cristóbal mine is very low; it is therefore necessary to have the material undergo a process designed to increase the content of these elements and thus obtain products with a commercial value. In this sense, the concentration plant was …
aspects of the cadmium distribution: (1) The cadmium content of the copper ore and associated sphalerite; (2) cadmium concentrations in soil, plants and fecal material from the vicinity of smelter sites; and (3) the areal extent of the cadmium contamination.
Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal primarily released from human industrial activities and agriculture. It contaminates soil and water and then is absorbed by the plant roots to enter the aerial tissues. Although Cd is not an essential nutrient for plants, it can...
Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic heavy metal that adversely affects humans, animals, and plants, even at low concentrations. It is widely distributed and has both natural and anthropogenic sources. Plants readily absorb and distribute Cd in …
Plants take up cadmium from the soil, fish and shellfish take up cadmium from the water, etc. People are exposed to higher amounts of cadmium by breathing cigarette smoke. Direct measurement of cadmium levels in ... Acute inhalation exposure to high concentrations of cadmium fumes (for example in welding processes including …
Hyperaccumulation of lead, zinc, and cadmium in plants growing on a lead/zinc outcrop in Yunnan Province, China. Original Article; ... and found that the Beichang ore area, an important part of the Lanping Pb/Zn mine, contained several outcrops enriched with Pb, Zn, and Cd. ... zinc and cadmium concentrations in 8 …
Higher concentrations of cadmium (Cd) in plants can lead to various damages and adverse effects on their growth and development (Table 1). The damages due to higher Cd concentration in soil can be observed first on roots by damaging root nucleoli and decrease absorption of nitrogen inhibiting nitrate reductase activity [ 12 ].
Cadmium (Cd) is a persistent and toxic heavy metal widely present in the environment and can cause damage to a variety of human organs and systems. Based on published studies from 2000 to 2021, this study established a comprehensive database of Cd concentrations in Chinese foods, and described the spatial and temporal trends of Cd concentrations …
3. Elevated grain Cd concentrations in Chinese diets and the potential health risk. Given that Cd is readily taken up by plants, the contamination of soil with Cd can lead to an increase in the Cd concentration in plant-derived foodstuffs (McLaughlin and Singh, 1999; Smolders and Mertens, 2013).For the general non-smoking population, dietary Cd …
Cadmium is an important pollutant in the environment, toxic to most organisms and a potential threat to human health: Crops and other plants take up Cd from the soil or water and may enrich it in their roots and …
Rapid industrialization during recent decades has resulted in the widespread contamination by cadmium (Cd) of agricultural soils, which has become a ubiquitous environmental problem and poses great risk to human health via the food chain. Cd accumulation greatly varies among different plant species and even within different …
The rhizosphere microbiome plays an important role in plant growth and behavior during phytoremediation. This work aims to explore how hyperaccumulating plant performance (shoot biomass and Cd uptake) and rhizosphere bacterial community are driven by plant development under a Cd concentration gradient and their relationship …
Cadmium accumulation in crops and the possibility of Cd entering the food chain are serious concerns for public health. This review discusses the deleterious effects of Cd in plants and the ...
Cadmium (Cd) is a non-essential highly toxic element that poses a potential health threat for plants, humans, and animals at considerably smaller concentrations. Plants can uptake Cd from soil and water due to its high mobility. In this review, the plant responses towards Cd phytotoxicity and the mechanism of Cd tolerance are summarized. Prevalent …
Concentration of copper, zinc, lead and cadmium in plants cultivated in the surroundings of Żelazny Most copper ore tailings impoundment
The present review discusses the abundance of Cd and its incorporation, accumulation and translocation by plants, phytotoxic implications, and morphological, …