Green manure plants for remediation of soils polluted by metals and metalloids: Ecotoxicity and human bioavailability assessment.

Green manure plants for remediation of soils polluted by metals and metalloids: Ecotoxicity and human bioavailability assessment.
Chemosphere. 2013 Aug 19;
Authors: Foucault Y, Lévêque T, Xiong T, Schreck E, Austruy A, Shahid M, Dumat C
Abstract
Borage, white mustard and phacelia, green manure plants currently used in agriculture to improve soil properties were cultivated for 10wk on various polluted soils with metal(loid) concentrations representative of urban brownfields or polluted kitchen gardens. Metal(loid) bioavailability and ecotoxicity were measured in relation to soil characteristics before and after treatment. All the plants efficiently grow on the various polluted soils. But borage and mustard only are able to modify the soil characteristics and metal(loid) impact: soil respiration increased while ecotoxicity, bioaccessible lead and total metal(loid) quantities in soils can be decreased respectively by phytostabilization and phytoextraction mechanisms. These two plants could therefore be used for urban polluted soil refunctionalization. However, plant efficiency to improve soil quality strongly depends on soil characteristics.
PMID: 23968553 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Chemosphere - August 19, 2013 Category: Chemistry Authors: Foucault Y, Lévêque T, Xiong T, Schreck E, Austruy A, Shahid M, Dumat C Tags: Chemosphere Source Type: research