Unlocking the potential of biochar in the remediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals for sustainable agriculture

Z Maqbool, MS Farooq, A Rafiq, M Uzair… - Functional Plant …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Agricultural contaminated soil, including some heavy metals (HMs), imposes a critical threat
to the environmental systems as well as human health. The amendment of biochar could be …

Si-enriched biochars improved soil properties, reduced Cd bioavailability while enhanced Cd translocation to grains of rice

D Tan, C Mei, L Yang, J Chen, F Rasul… - Environmental Science and …, 2024 - Springer
Biochar and silicon (Si) have been widely considered to play an important role in mitigating
cadmium (Cd) toxicity. In this study, wild-type rice (WT, high-Si) and Si-deficient mutant rice …

Effects of wollastonite and phosphate treatments on cadmium bioaccessibility in pak choi (Brassica rapa L. ssp. chinensis) grown in contaminated soils

K Guo, Y Zhao, Y Zhang, J Yang, Z Chu, Q Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cadmium (Cd) contamination of soil can strongly impact human health through the food
chain due to uptake by crop plants. Inorganic immobilizing agents such as silicates and …

Uptake of selected heavy metals from contaminated waters utilizing cost-effective and environmentally friendly biosorbents prepared from the residues of a …

T Kebede, H Getachew, A Legesse… - European Journal of …, 2024 - eurjchem.com
In the current study, the adsorption capacity of Tella residues (residues of fermented
alcoholic beverage) for quantitative uptake of Cu (II), Cd (II), Zn (II) and Pb (II) was evaluated …