Plant Availability of Heavy Metals in Soils Previously Amended with Heavy Applications of Sewage Sludge

• Published in: Journal of the science of food and agriculture Vol. 73; no. 4; pp. 446 - 454
• Main Authors: Hooda, P S, McNulty, D, Alloway, B J, Aitken, M N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.04.1997; Wiley; Published for the Society of Chemical Industry by Elsevier Applied Science
• Subjects: Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions; Applied sciences; Biological and medical sciences; Biological and physicochemical properties of pollutants. Interaction in the soil; carrot; Exact sciences and technology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; metal contents; plant availability; Pollution; sludge-amended soils; Soil and sediments pollution; Soil and water pollution; soil extractants; Soil science; soil type and liming; spinach; wheat; United Kingdom; Europe; Monocotyledones; Waste utilization; Daucus carota; Cultivated soil; Spinacia oleracea; Soil pollution; Sewage sludge; ORGANOMINERAL FERTILIZERS; Cereal crop; Field experiment; Chemical pollution; Liming amendment; Gramineae; Dicotyledones; Angiospermae; pH; Land disposal; Extraction agent; Acid soil; Extraction process; Pollution prevention; Property of soil; Clay soil; Bioavailability; Soil management; Uptake; Chenopodiaceae; Heavy metal; Alkaline soil; Analysis method; Vegetable crop; Environment; Spermatophyta; Umbelliferae; Biological accumulation; Soil plant relation; Triticum aestivum; Organic amendment

Plant uptake is one of the major pathways by which sludge‐borne potentially toxic metals enter the food chain. This study examined the accumulation of Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn in wheat, carrots and spinach grown on soils from 13 sites previously amended with sewage sludge. Winter wheat, carrots and spi...