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http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/aer.2016.5.1.019

Single and mixed chelants-assisted phytoextraction of heavy metals in municipal waste dump soil by castor  

Wuana, Raymond A. (Department of Chemistry and Centre for Agrochemical Technology, Federal University of Agriculture)
Eneji, Ishaq S. (Department of Chemistry and Centre for Agrochemical Technology, Federal University of Agriculture)
Naku, Julius U. (Department of Chemistry and Centre for Agrochemical Technology, Federal University of Agriculture)
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Advances in environmental research / v.5, no.1, 2016 , pp. 19-35 More about this Journal
Abstract
The phytoextraction of some toxic heavy metals from municipal waste dump soil by castor plant (Ricinus communis) was tested under natural and single or mixed chelant-assisted scenarios in pot microcosms. A sandy loam with total metal contents (mg/kg): Cd (84.5), Cu (114.5), Ni (70.3), Pb (57.8), and Zn (117.5), was sampled from an active dumpsite in Calabar, Nigeria and used for the study. Castor (small seed variety) was grown under natural phytoextraction or single/binary chelant (citric acid, oxalic acid, and EDTA) applications (5-20 mmol/kg soil) for 63 days. Castor exhibited no visual phytotoxic symptoms with typically sigmoid growth profiles at the applied chelant doses. Growth rates, however, decelerated with increase in chelant dose. Post-harvest biomass yields were higher under chelant application than for natural phytoextraction. Both root and shoot metal concentrations (mg/kg) increased quasilinearly and significantly ($p{\leq}0.05$) with increase in chelant dose, furnishing maximum levels as: Cd (55.6 and 20.9), Cu (89.5 and 58.4), Ni (49.8 and 19.6), Pb (32.1 and 12.1), and Zn (99.5 and 46.6). Ranges of translocation factors, root and shoot bioaccumulation factors were 0.21-3.49, 0.01-0.89 and 0.01-0.51, respectively. Overall, the binary chelant treatments were less toxic for R. communis growth and enhanced metal accumulation in shoots to a greater extent than the single chelant scenarios, but more so when EDTA was present in the binary combination. This suggests that the mixed chelants could be considered as alternative treatments for enhanced phytoextraction and revegetation of degraded waste dump soils.
Keywords
waste dump soil; heavy metals; Ricinus communis; phytoextraction; mixed chelants;
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