Lead toxicity in plants: Impacts and remediation

U Zulfiqar, M Farooq, S Hussain, M Maqsood… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lead (Pb) is the second most toxic heavy metal after arsenic (As), which has no role in
biological systems. Pb toxicity causes a range of damages to plants from germination to …

Lead toxicity in cereals and its management strategies: a critical review

M Rizwan, S Ali, MZU Rehman, MR Javed… - Water, Air, & Soil …, 2018 - Springer
Cereal grains such as wheat, rice, and maize are widely consumed as a staple food
worldwide. Lead (Pb) is one of the non-essential trace elements and its toxicity in crops …

Immobilization of cadmium and lead in contaminated paddy field using inorganic and organic additives

Y Hamid, L Tang, X Wang, B Hussain, M Yaseen… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Heavy metal contamination of agricultural soils has posed a risk to environment and human
health. The present study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of soil amendments for …

Popular wood and sugarcane bagasse biochars reduced uptake of chromium and lead by lettuce from mine-contaminated soil

AZ Khan, S Khan, T Ayaz, ML Brusseau, MA Khan… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
As a result of metal mining activities in Pakistan, toxic heavy metals (HMs) such as chromium
(Cr) and lead (Pb) often enter the soil ecosystem, accumulate in food crops and cause …

Date palm waste biochars alter a soil respiration, microbial biomass carbon, and heavy metal mobility in contaminated mined soil

MI Al-Wabel, ARA Usman, AS Al-Farraj, YS Ok… - Environmental …, 2019 - Springer
A 30-day incubation experiment was conducted using a heavy metal-contaminated mined
soil amended with date palm feedstock (FS) and its derivative biochars (BCs) at three …

Endophytic inoculation coupled with soil amendment and foliar inhibitor ensure phytoremediation and argo-production in cadmium contaminated soil under oilseed …

L Tang, Y Hamid, A Zehra, MJI Shohag, Z He… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Phytoremediation coupled with agro-production is a sustainable strategy for remediation of
toxic metal contaminated farmlands without interrupting crop production. In this study, high …

Effect of fresh and mature organic amendments on the phytoremediation of technosols contaminated with high concentrations of trace elements

N Hattab, M Motelica-Heino, O Faure… - Journal of Environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Organic compounds resulting from the decomposition of organic amendments are used in
the remediation of trace element (TE) contaminated soils. The mobility, phytoavailability and …

Immobilization and sorption of Cd and Pb in contaminated stagnic anthrosols as amended with biochar and manure combined with inorganic additives

Y Hamid, L Tang, B Hussain, M Usman… - Journal of environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study evaluated the efficiency of pre-selected composite amendments (CA-1:
biochar-lime-sepiolite-zeolite and CA-2: manure-lime-sepiolite) for immobilization and …

Organic Amendments Application Increases Yield and Nutrient Uptake of Mustard (Brassica Juncea) Grown in Chromium-Contaminated Soils

V Kumar, PK Sharma, HS Jatav, SK Singh… - … in Soil Science and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A pot experiment (Net House) study was conducted in the Department of Soil
Science and Agriculture Chemistry, Institute of Agricultural Science, BHU Varanasi to find …

Effectiveness of Zinc and Gypsum Application Against Cadmium Toxicity and Accumulation in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

MS Abbas, M Akmal, S Ullah, MU Hassan… - … in Soil Science and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Cadmium (Cd) is a nonessential and toxic element because it inhibits the growth and
development of plants and is dangerous for end consumer. It enters in the human food chain …