Phytoremediation of Lead and Cadmium Contaminated Soils using Sunflower Plant

Phytremediation has emerged as a practical approach to clean up metal-polluted soils. In this study the role of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) plants as a potential phytoremediator to soils contaminated with cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) was investigated. Our results showed that the effect of Cd was...

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Published in:	Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistry
Main Authors:	Nasser Sewalem, Soad Elfeky, Fatma El- Shintinawy
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	"Vikol publishing" ST Kolesnichenko V.V. 2014-03-01
Subjects:	Sunflower Phytremediation Heavy metals Cadmium Lead
Online Access:	http://www.jspb.ru/issues/2014/N1/JSPB_2014_1_122-134.pdf