IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/caa/jnlpse/v63y2017i2id428-2016-pse.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Arsenic reactions and brake fern (Pteris vittata L.) uptake in tropical soils

Author

Listed:
  • Hue Van NGUYEN
  • Amjad AHMAD

    (Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA)

Abstract

In Hawaii, past use of arsenical pesticides has left elevated levels of arsenic (As) in some soils. Sorption isotherms of an Andosol and an Acrisol showed that the former required 1100 mg/kg, and the latter 300 mg/kg of added As to maintain 0.20 mg As/L in solution, the maximum allowable As level in streams/rivers in Hawaii. Greenhouse experiments were conducted on an Andosol (315 mg/kg total As), which was amended with 0, 5 g/kg compost, 5 g Fe/kg as amorphous Fe(OH)3, or 250 mg P/kg as Ca(H2PO4)2, and on a low-As (15 mg/kg) Acrisol, which was spiked with 0, 150 or 300 mg As/kg as Na2HAsO4.7 H2O. Brake fern (Pteris vittata L.) was used as the test plant. Arsenic concentration in the fern fronds averaged 355 mg/kg in the Andosol, and 2610 and 1270 mg/kg (from consecutive plantings, 2 and 12 months after As addition, respectively) in the Acrisol spiked with 300 mg/kg of As. Chemical reactions, as suggested by sequential extractions, likely controlled the availability and uptake of soil As. Mehlich-3 extraction could be used to identify As-contaminated soils and potential phytoremediation as it correlated well with bioaccessible As and with As in fern fronds.

Suggested Citation

  • Hue Van NGUYEN & Amjad AHMAD, 2017. "Arsenic reactions and brake fern (Pteris vittata L.) uptake in tropical soils," Plant, Soil and Environment, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 63(2), pages 55-61.
    • Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlpse:v:63:y:2017:i:2:id:428-2016-pse
    DOI: 10.17221/428/2016-PSE
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://pse.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/428/2016-PSE.html
    Download Restriction: free of charge
    File URL: http://pse.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/428/2016-PSE.pdf
    Download Restriction: free of charge
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.17221/428/2016-PSE?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. P. Tlustoš & J. Száková & J. Hrubý & I. Hartman & J. Najmanová & J. Nedělník & D. Pavlíková & M. Batysta, 2006. "Removal of As, Cd, Pb, and Zn from contaminated soil by high biomass producing plants," Plant, Soil and Environment, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 52(9), pages 413-423.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. P. Dąbrowski & B. Pawluśkiewicz & H.M. Kalaji & A.H. Baczewska, 2013. "The effect of light availability on leaf area index, biomass production and plant species composition of park grasslands in Warsaw," Plant, Soil and Environment, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 59(12), pages 543-548.
    2. M. Turan & A. Esringü, 2007. "Phytoremediation based on canola (Brassica napus L.) and Indian mustard (Brassica juncea L.) planted on spiked soil by aliquot amount of Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn," Plant, Soil and Environment, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 53(1), pages 7-15.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:caa:jnlpse:v:63:y:2017:i:2:id:428-2016-pse. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Ivo Andrle (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cazv.cz/en/home/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.