Mining activities have increased the accumulation of heavy metals in farmland soil and in
food crops. To identify the key soil properties influencing heavy metal bioavailability and …

A field-based study was undertaken to analyze the effects of soil bioavailable heavy metals
determined by a sequential extraction procedure, and soil microbial parameters on the …

Maize plant tissues and rhizosphere soil were collected from an agricultural area around the
Huludao Zinc Plant in Liaoning Province, China, to investigate the effects of soil pH and …

Cadmium is a toxic element with a half-life of more than a few decades that can be absorbed
by crops and threaten human health. The problem of food security caused by cadmium …

Heavy metal (loid) s (HMs) in organic fertilizer have become a primary source of HMs
pollution of farmlands, which could cause deleterious health effects in people exposed …

To determine the heavy metal (loid) s (HMs) contamination of agricultural soil in hotbed
chives hometown of Tangchang, 788 topsoil samples were collected and analyzed for their …

Increasing metal pollution has drawn broad public attention in China due to severe
environmental quality deterioration. However, so far, there has been no study to survey …

Soil heavy metals and their bioaccumulation in agricultural products have attracted
widespread concerns, yet the transfer and accumulation characteristics of heavy metals in …

Studying the pollution status, spatial distribution characteristics, and sources of heavy metals
in farmland soil in Anxin County will provide a method basis for the next step of soil …

Elucidating the transfer behaviour of heavy metals from soils to grains and ultimately to
humans is of great significance for both human health risk assessment and pollution control …