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Lead and Cadmium Content in Grass Growing Near An Expressway

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of distance from a road on lead and cadmium content in grass species near an expressway and to assess bioaccumulation of these elements by morphological parts of the plants. The material for the research was the following grass species in their flo...

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Autores principales: Jankowski, Kazimierz, Malinowska, Elżbieta, Ciepiela, Grażyna A., Jankowska, Jolanta, Wiśniewska-Kadżajan, Beata, Sosnowski, Jacek
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6326970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30259078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00244-018-0565-3
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author Jankowski, Kazimierz
Malinowska, Elżbieta
Ciepiela, Grażyna A.
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Ciepiela, Grażyna A.
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description The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of distance from a road on lead and cadmium content in grass species near an expressway and to assess bioaccumulation of these elements by morphological parts of the plants. The material for the research was the following grass species in their flowering stage: Dactylis glomerata, Arrenatherum elatius, and Alopecurus pratensis. Plant samples were collected along the international E30 road, the ring-road of Siedlce, in May 2015. A 9-km road section was examined with samples collected on both sides, covering a stretch of 700 m, at the following distances from the edge of the road: 1, 5, 10, and 15 m. Five samples of each plant species and at each distance from the road were collected. Lead and cadmium concentration was determined with the AAS method. The largest amounts of Pb were absorbed by A. pratensis L. (3.843 mg kg(−1)DM), while the lowest by A. elatius L. (2.523 mg kg(−1)DM). Of the above plants, the highest amount of Cd (0.286 mg kg(−1)DM) was accumulated by D. glomerata L. Underground parts of the grass species accumulated greater amounts of Pb and Cd than aboveground parts. It indicates that considerable amounts of heavy metals released by expressway vehicles contaminated the soil. The highest content of Pb and Cd was found in the grass growing at a distance of 5 m from the edge of the roadway, and this applies both to underground and aboveground parts.
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spelling pubmed-63269702019-01-25 Lead and Cadmium Content in Grass Growing Near An Expressway Jankowski, Kazimierz Malinowska, Elżbieta Ciepiela, Grażyna A. Jankowska, Jolanta Wiśniewska-Kadżajan, Beata Sosnowski, Jacek Arch Environ Contam Toxicol Article The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of distance from a road on lead and cadmium content in grass species near an expressway and to assess bioaccumulation of these elements by morphological parts of the plants. The material for the research was the following grass species in their flowering stage: Dactylis glomerata, Arrenatherum elatius, and Alopecurus pratensis. Plant samples were collected along the international E30 road, the ring-road of Siedlce, in May 2015. A 9-km road section was examined with samples collected on both sides, covering a stretch of 700 m, at the following distances from the edge of the road: 1, 5, 10, and 15 m. Five samples of each plant species and at each distance from the road were collected. Lead and cadmium concentration was determined with the AAS method. The largest amounts of Pb were absorbed by A. pratensis L. (3.843 mg kg(−1)DM), while the lowest by A. elatius L. (2.523 mg kg(−1)DM). Of the above plants, the highest amount of Cd (0.286 mg kg(−1)DM) was accumulated by D. glomerata L. Underground parts of the grass species accumulated greater amounts of Pb and Cd than aboveground parts. It indicates that considerable amounts of heavy metals released by expressway vehicles contaminated the soil. The highest content of Pb and Cd was found in the grass growing at a distance of 5 m from the edge of the roadway, and this applies both to underground and aboveground parts. Springer US 2018-09-26 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6326970/ /pubmed/30259078 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00244-018-0565-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Sosnowski, Jacek
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