Soil–plant transfer of polychlorinated biphenyls in paddy fields

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 234; no. 1; pp. 119 - 126
• Main Authors: Chu, Shaogang, Cai, Meilin, Xu, Xiaobai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shannon Elsevier B.V 30.08.1999; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Applied ecology; Biological and medical sciences; Contamination; Ecotoxicology, biological effects of pollution; Effects of pollution and side effects of pesticides on plants and fungi; Environmental impact; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Grain (agricultural product); Oryza sativa; PCBs; Plants (botany); Polychlorinated biphenyls; Rice; Soil; Statistical methods; Transfer; Transport properties; Asia; China; Soil; Transfer; PCBs; Rice; Monocotyledones; Pollutant behavior; Soil pollution; Polychlorobiphenyl; Cereal crop; Oryza sativa; Gramineae; Chlorocarbon; Angiospermae; Spermatophyta; Paddy field; Soil plant relation; Concentration distribution

In a field experiment, the transfer of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from contaminated soil to rice was investigated. The results show that rice is not subject to significant bioconcentration of PCBs from the surrounding environmental system and the distribution of PCBs in the plant shows that th...