Potentially toxic elements are persistent in the environment and plants have the ability to absorb and transfer them from soil in edible parts. The objectives of this study were to characterize the distribution of Cd and Pb in quinoa tissues and to investigate their accumulation and transfer from irrigated water in edible parts of quinoa. For the purpose of this study experiment and simulated pollution in the form of different metal concentration in water that was used for irrigation was designed. Distribution of metals in quinoa were determined and analyzed in seed formation and maturation stage. Bioaccumulation and translocation factors were calculated to characterize the efficiency of quinoa to absorb metals. The results of our study indicated that quinoa adopts potentially toxic metals from substrate but does not accumulate them. The potential of such a conclusion is useful for exploring the use of quinoa as lead and cadmium excluders.
Keywords:
potentially toxic elements / water-to-plant transfer / bioaccumulation factor / translocation factor / metal excluders
TY - JOUR
AU - Radovanović, Vesna
AU - Đekić, Ilija
AU - Žarković, Branka
PY - 2020
UR - http://aspace.agrif.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/5381
AB - Potentially toxic elements are persistent in the environment and plants have the ability to absorb and transfer them from soil in edible parts. The objectives of this study were to characterize the distribution of Cd and Pb in quinoa tissues and to investigate their accumulation and transfer from irrigated water in edible parts of quinoa. For the purpose of this study experiment and simulated pollution in the form of different metal concentration in water that was used for irrigation was designed. Distribution of metals in quinoa were determined and analyzed in seed formation and maturation stage. Bioaccumulation and translocation factors were calculated to characterize the efficiency of quinoa to absorb metals. The results of our study indicated that quinoa adopts potentially toxic metals from substrate but does not accumulate them. The potential of such a conclusion is useful for exploring the use of quinoa as lead and cadmium excluders.
PB - MDPI, BASEL
T2 - Sustainability
T1 - Characteristics of Cadmium and Lead Accumulation and Transfer by Chenopodium Quinoa Will
IS - 9
VL - 12
DO - 10.3390/su12093789
ER -
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author = "Radovanović, Vesna and Đekić, Ilija and Žarković, Branka",
year = "2020",
abstract = "Potentially toxic elements are persistent in the environment and plants have the ability to absorb and transfer them from soil in edible parts. The objectives of this study were to characterize the distribution of Cd and Pb in quinoa tissues and to investigate their accumulation and transfer from irrigated water in edible parts of quinoa. For the purpose of this study experiment and simulated pollution in the form of different metal concentration in water that was used for irrigation was designed. Distribution of metals in quinoa were determined and analyzed in seed formation and maturation stage. Bioaccumulation and translocation factors were calculated to characterize the efficiency of quinoa to absorb metals. The results of our study indicated that quinoa adopts potentially toxic metals from substrate but does not accumulate them. The potential of such a conclusion is useful for exploring the use of quinoa as lead and cadmium excluders.",
publisher = "MDPI, BASEL",
journal = "Sustainability",
title = "Characteristics of Cadmium and Lead Accumulation and Transfer by Chenopodium Quinoa Will",
number = "9",
volume = "12",
doi = "10.3390/su12093789"
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Radovanović, V., Đekić, I.,& Žarković, B.. (2020). Characteristics of Cadmium and Lead Accumulation and Transfer by Chenopodium Quinoa Will. in Sustainability
MDPI, BASEL., 12(9).
https://doi.org/10.3390/su12093789
Radovanović V, Đekić I, Žarković B. Characteristics of Cadmium and Lead Accumulation and Transfer by Chenopodium Quinoa Will. in Sustainability. 2020;12(9).
doi:10.3390/su12093789 .
Radovanović, Vesna, Đekić, Ilija, Žarković, Branka, "Characteristics of Cadmium and Lead Accumulation and Transfer by Chenopodium Quinoa Will" in Sustainability, 12, no. 9 (2020),
https://doi.org/10.3390/su12093789 . .
