Ecotoxicology of Heavy Metal(loid)-Enriched Particulate Matter: Foliar Accumulation by Plants and Health Impacts

Shahid, Muhammad; Natasha,; Dumat, Camille; Niazi, Nabeel Khan; Xiong, Tian Tian; Farooq, Aamir; Khalid, Sana

doi:10.1007/398_2019_38

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“…PM can block or pass through the stomata of plants and accumulate under the epidermis or in the palisade layer of leaves [ 22 ]. PM containing heavy metals can move throughout the plant through symplastic or apoplastic pathways [ 23 ]. Artificial plants showed a similar PM reduction trend to some plant species, but they showed a relatively low reduction rate compared to I.…”

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Screening of Particulate Matter Reduction Ability of 21 Indigenous Korean Evergreen Species for Indoor Use

Jang

Park

Lee

et al. 2021

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The formation and pollution of particulate matter (PM), a side effect of rapid industrialization and urbanization, is considered a global issue. However, various plant species are able to effectively capture and reduce atmospheric PM concentrations. We investigated the indoor growth and morphology of 21 indigenous Korean evergreen species at low light intensities to ascertain their ability to reduce PM of aerosol particles in a closed acrylic chamber. The decrease in PM mass concentration differed significantly across species, with a significant correlation (8 h; p < 0.001). The reduction in the mass concentration of PM differed with particle size and across species. The highest reduction of PM2.5 occurred after 8 h with Dryopteris lacera (86.8%), Ilex × wandoensis (84.9%), Machilus thunbergii (84.3%), and Rhododendron brachycarpum (84.0%). Reduction of PM10 after 8 h was highest with Cephalotaxus harringtonii (98.3%), I. × wandoensis (98.5%), M. thunbergii (98.5%), and R. brachycarpum (98.3%). Plant morphological characteristics (category, plant height, leaf shape, leaf area) and relative humidity were closely related to the decrease in PM mass concentration. In conclusion, our findings can be used to identify Korean plant species that can reduce PM concentration and are suitable for indoor use.

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Screening of Particulate Matter Reduction Ability of 21 Indigenous Korean Evergreen Species for Indoor Use

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Park

Lee

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“…In the human body, they cause multiple injuries to the liver, kidneys, brain, bones, lungs, and impair fertility, depending on the element. Some of them (As, Cd, Cr, Ni, Pb, Zn, and V) are also responsible for various types of cancer [ 132 , 133 ]. According to Romanian studies, these toxic effects may contribute to decrease in the human life expectancy by 9–10 years [ 134 ].…”

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“…Due to PM capture and high immobilization of metal and metalloids, leafy vegetables are the least secure for cultivation in urban areas [ 139 , 140 ] (Table 1 ). Previous experiments give evidence that lettuce Lactuca sativa L. collects alleviated amounts of Al, As, Mn, Pb and Cu, Spinacia oleracea L.—As, Cd, Zn and Fe [ 124 , 127 ], Brassica oleracea L.—Zn and Sb [ 132 ], while Chrysanthemum coronarium L.—Cr [ 141 ]. Generally, the health risk assessment which includes numerous parameters such as the hazard index (HI) for adult and children, hazard quotient (HQ), estimated daily intake (EDI), maximum daily intake (MDI), lifetime cancer risk (ILTCR), and total hazard quotient (THQ).…”

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Effectiveness of plants and green infrastructure utilization in ambient particulate matter removal

Wróblewska

Jeong

2021

Environ Sci Eur

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Air pollution is regarded as an increasingly threatening, major environmental risk for human health. Seven million deaths are attributed to air pollution each year, 91% of which is due to particulate matter. Vegetation is a xenobiotic means of removing particulate matter. This review presents the mechanisms of PM capture by plants and factors that influence PM reduction in the atmosphere. Vegetation is ubiquitously approved as a PM removal solution in cities, taking various forms of green infrastructure. This review also refers to the effectiveness of plant exploitation in GI: trees, grasslands, green roofs, living walls, water reservoirs, and urban farming. Finally, methods of increasing the PM removal by plants, such as species selection, biodiversity increase, PAH-degrading phyllospheric endophytes, transgenic plants and microorganisms, are presented.

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“…The highly persistent heavy metal containing particulate matter (PM) gets deposited on the adaxial and abaxial surfaces of leaves and is trapped in the cuticle where air pollution is high (Mo et al 2015, Shahid et al 2019). The foliar entry depends on the size of the SPM and plant type.…”

Section: Heavy Metal Accumulation and Detoxification In Plant Trichomesmentioning

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Functional aspects of solanaceae trichomes in heavy metal detoxification

Koul

Thomas

Karmakar³

2021

Nordic Journal of Botany

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Solanaceous plants are ubiquitous and are able to colonize degraded, abandoned and metal polluted habitats. Members of the family have evolved interesting extrinsic and intrinsic traits to combat the metal toxicity in multiple ways. Indumentum constituted mostly of trichome layer provides structural defense for both biotic stress (herbivory, oviposition, microbial pathogenesis) and abiotic stress (like drought, heat, freezing, photooxidation and UV radiation). Plants with heavy metal tolerance can accumulate toxic heavy metals in their trichomes as a part of their elemental defense detoxification strategy. Apart from the canonical functions, trichomes support ion and metal homeostasis, including the sequestration, compartmentalization, accumulation and excretion of heavy metals in many ways. The trichomes in Solanaceae are known to have a key role in the detoxification of Cd, Ni, Pb and Zn. Expressed sequence tag (EST)-based large-scale gene analysis in tobacco has indicated that trichomes are biologically active and stress-responsive structures. Trichome secretions and exudates also play an active role in metal detoxification process. Given that trichomes provide chemical defense from heavy metal stresses in the form of sequestration and extrusion, the plants having trichomes have potential role in remediation of contaminated soils. Solanaceae trichomes can serve as important model tissues that can be modified to attenuate metal toxicity, serve as environmental indicators and enhance phytoremediation potential of the family.

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Ecotoxicology of Heavy Metal(loid)-Enriched Particulate Matter: Foliar Accumulation by Plants and Health Impacts

Cited by 22 publications

References 229 publications

Screening of Particulate Matter Reduction Ability of 21 Indigenous Korean Evergreen Species for Indoor Use

Screening of Particulate Matter Reduction Ability of 21 Indigenous Korean Evergreen Species for Indoor Use

Effectiveness of plants and green infrastructure utilization in ambient particulate matter removal

Functional aspects of solanaceae trichomes in heavy metal detoxification

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