EDTA-assisted Pb phytoextraction

E Meers, M Qadir, P De Caritat, FMG Tack, G Du Laing… - Chemosphere, 2009 - Elsevier
Pb is one of the most widespread and metal pollutants in soil. It is generally concentrated in
surface layers with only a minor portion of the total metal found in soil solution …

Chemically assisted phytoextraction: a review of potential soil amendments for increasing plant uptake of heavy metals

E Meers, FMG Tack, S Van Slycken… - International Journal …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The contamination of soils by trace metals has been an unfortunate sideeffect of
industrialization. Some of these contaminants can interfere with vulnerable enduses of soil …

Leaching and uptake of heavy metals by ten different species of plants during an EDTA-assisted phytoextraction process

Y Chen, X Li, Z Shen - Chemosphere, 2004 - Elsevier
In a pot experiment, the potential use of 10 plant species, including six dicotyledon species
and four monocotyledon species, was investigated for the EDTA-enhanced phytoextraction …

Approaches for enhanced phytoextraction of heavy metals

A Bhargava, FF Carmona, M Bhargava… - Journal of environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
The contamination of the environment with toxic metals has become a worldwide problem.
Metal toxicity affects crop yields, soil biomass and fertility. Soils polluted with heavy metals …

Phytoextraction: the use of plants to remove heavy metals from soil

Z Ghori, H Iftikhar, MF Bhatti, I Sharma, AG Kazi… - Plant metal …, 2016 - Elsevier
The continuous increase in industrial activities has contaminated the soil with heavy metals
such as cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, lead, arsenic, nickel, and zinc and are …

Comparison of EDTA and EDDS as potential soil amendments for enhanced phytoextraction of heavy metals

E Meers, A Ruttens, MJ Hopgood, D Samson… - Chemosphere, 2005 - Elsevier
Phytoextraction has been proposed as an alternative remediation technology for soils
polluted with heavy metals or radionuclides, but is generally conceived as too slow working …

Phytoextraction of Pb and Cd from a contaminated agricultural soil using different EDTA application regimes: laboratory versus field scale measures of efficiency

RW Neugschwandtner, P Tlustoš, M Komárek… - Geoderma, 2008 - Elsevier
Enhanced phytoextraction of heavy metals using chelating agents and agricultural crops is
widely discussed as a remediation technique for agricultural soils contaminated with low …

Chelate-assisted Pb phytoextraction: Pb availability, uptake, and translocation constraints

J Wu, FC Hsu, SD Cunningham - Environmental Science & …, 1999 - ACS Publications
Chelates have been shown to enhance phytoextraction of Pb from contaminated soil.
Mechanisms behind this phenomenon, however, remain largely unexplored. In this paper …

Enhancing phytoextraction: the effect of chemical soil manipulation on mobility, plant accumulation, and leaching of heavy metals

U Schmidt - Journal of Environmental Quality, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
For heavy metal–contaminated agricultural land, low‐cost, plant‐based phytoextraction
measures can be a key element for a new land management strategy. When agents are …

Metal phytoextraction—a survey of potential risks

JS Angle, NA Linacre - International Journal of Phytoremediation, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Metal phytoremediation, and more specifically, phytoextraction, utilizing hyperaccumulators
is one of the most exciting new environmental technologies developed over the past decade …