Phytotoxicity of radionuclides: A review of sources, impacts and remediation strategies

S Ali, SB Baloch, J Bernas, P Konvalina… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Various anthropogenic activities and natural sources contribute to the presence of
radioactive materials in the environment, posing a serious threat to phytotoxicity …

From legacy contamination to watershed systems science: a review of scientific insights and technologies developed through DOE-supported research in water and …

D Dwivedi, CI Steefel, B Arora, J Banfield… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Water resources, including groundwater and prominent rivers worldwide, are under duress
because of excessive contaminant and nutrient loads. To help mitigate this problem, the …

Local and landscape factors influencing mercury distribution in water, bottom sediment, and biota from lakes of the Araguaia River floodplain, Central Brazil

LC Monteiro, LCG Vieira, JVE Bernardi… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) is a chemical element widely present in the Earth's crust. However, its high
toxicity and ability to accumulate in organisms and biomagnify through food chains …

Increased water inputs fuel microbial mercury methylation in upland soils

XQ Zhou, XM Qu, Z Yang, J Zhao, YY Hao… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mercury (Hg) can be converted to neurotoxic methylmercury (MeHg) by certain microbes
typically in anaerobic environments, threatening human health due to its bioaccumulation in …

Microbial mercury transformations: molecules, functions and organisms

RQ Yu, T Barkay - Advances in applied microbiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Mercury (Hg) methylation, methylmercury (MeHg) demethylation, and inorganic
redox transformations of Hg are microbe-mediating processes that determine the fate and …

Properly interpret metabolic inhibition results to identify primary mercury methylating microbes

P Lei, RQ Yu, Y Kong, S Bertilsson… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Distinguishing the respective contributions of various microbes to methylmercury (MeHg)
production is critical for predicting MeHg bioaccumulation and exposure risk. Metabolic …

Non-mercury methylating microbial taxa are integral to understanding links between mercury methylation and elemental cycles in marine and freshwater sediments

YL Wang, K Ikuma, SC Brooks, MS Varonka… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The goal of this study was to explore the role of non-mercury (Hg) methylating taxa in
mercury methylation and to identify potential links between elemental cycles and Hg …

Warming inhibits HgII methylation but stimulates methylmercury demethylation in paddy soils

Q Zhang, Q Pu, Z Hao, J Liu, K Zhang, B Meng… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Inorganic mercury (Hg II) can be transformed into neurotoxic methylmercury (MeHg) by
microorganisms in paddy soils, and the subsequent accumulation in rice grains poses an …

Seasonality and longer-term development generate temporal dynamics in the Populus microbiome

WA Argiroff, AA Carrell, DM Klingeman, NC Dove… - Msystems, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Temporal variation in community composition is central to our understanding of the
assembly and functioning of microbial communities, yet the controls over temporal dynamics …

湿地条件下无机汞—有机汞相互转化研究进展

李博, 殷怡童, 关翔宇, 武雄, 罗锡明 - 地球科学进展, 2023 - adearth.ac.cn
汞(Hg) 作为一种有毒重金属污染物, 在全球范围内受到广泛关注. 有机汞尤其是甲基汞的毒性比
无机汞毒性更大, 且易在食物链中积累, 因此无机汞—有机汞的转化问题近年来备受关注 …