Trace elements accumulation in soil and rice plants irrigated with the contaminated water

Growth and Physiological Responses of Two Rice Varieties to Applied Lead in Normal and Salt-Affected Soils

“…Shaheen basmati exhibiting previously observed ion selectivity mechanism of heavy metals tolerance when grown in a saline medium (Hussain et al, 2003;Abbas et al, 2007). Such tolerance of Pb and salinity by this variety can be due to inherent capacity and the presence of more tolerant genes to confer stress.…”

“…1) by Pb was greater in salt-affected Pb-contaminated soil compared to normal Pbcontaminated soil. In studies of the effect of sewage water, contaminated with trace elements, on the performance of rice varieties in saline soil, Abbas et al (2007) reported that Shaheen basmati had a higher yield compared to others rice varieties because of its relatively better salt tolerance and potential yield. However, contemporary reports shown that KS-282 also proved to be high yielding with better growth under saline and Cd stressed conditions (Niaz et al, 2010;Arshadullah et al, 2011).…”

Removal of some elements from washed and cooked rice studied by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and synchrotron based confocal micro-X-ray fluorescence

“…Abbas, Sarfraz, Mehdi, Hassan, and Rehman (2007) reported about trace element accumulation in rice irrigated with contaminated water, meanwhile Srivastava, Mall, and Mishra (2008) informed about similar results but after a mine spill. Generally, oriental rice species (indica and japonica) (Liu et al, 2005(Liu et al, , 2007 are studied, while Rascio et al (2008) performed measurements with western ones.…”

Accumulation and distribution of toxic metals in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and Indian mustard (Brassica campestris L.) irrigated with distillery and tannery effluents

“…Metals tend to bio-accumulate in food chain as large areas of agricultural land have been contaminated with metals [2]. Mining activities [2], agronomic practices [2], application of industrial effluents as water source for irrigation of crop plants [3][4][5] or sludge as manure are the major sources of metal contamination in agricultural land [6,7]. The threat that metals pose to human and animal health is aggravated by their long-term persistence in the environment [8].…”