ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Studies of Plants Useful in the Re-Cultivation of Heavy Metals-Contaminated Wasteland – a New Hyperaccumulator of Barium?
Joanna Kowalska1, Ewa Stryjewska1, Grażyna Bystrzejewska-Piotrowska2, Krzysztof Lewandowski1, Małgorzata Tobiasz1, Joanna Pałdyna1, Jerzy Golimowski1
 
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1Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warszawa, Poland
2Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Miecznikowa 1, 02-096 Warszawa, Poland
 
 
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2012;21(2):401-405
 
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The strategy of re-cultivation of wasteland contaminated with heavy metals based on phytoremediation was proposed. The ability of plants that colonized the investigated area to uptake pollutants from soils and their translocation to aboveground organs was examined. The metals mobility and bioavailability was assessed based on a single extraction with water and solutions of hydrogen peroxide and EDTA. A new hyperaccumulator of barium – great mullein (Verbascum densiflora) – useful in the phytoextraction process, was identified.
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