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Effects of EDDS on the Cd uptake and growth of Tagetes patula L. and Phytolacca americana L. in Cd-contaminated alkaline soil in northern China

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Phytoextraction has been considered an effective and environment-friendly method for removing heavy metals from contaminated soil. However, the efficiency, mechanism, and adaptability of phytoextraction by hyperaccumulators in Cd-polluted weakly alkaline soil have not been investigated in detail. In this study, pot experiments were conducted to evaluate the enhanced effects of S,S-ethylenediamine disuccinic acid (EDDS) on phytoextraction in alkaline soil by measuring the degradation kinetic characteristics of EDDS and Cd absorption dynamics of Tagetes patula L. (T. patula) and Phytolacca americana L. (P. americana) for a period of 55 days. Results showed that the half-life of EDDS varied from 4.20–7.07 days and 3.35–4.36 days for T. patula and P. americana, respectively. EDDS-activated Cd reached saturation at a low dosage (1 mM) and a single application of EDDS was found to be better than double applications. The activation of EDDS on Cd applied before 45 days of harvest was better than that before 15 days of harvest, and disappeared after a 35-day application. Correspondingly, the Cd concentration in P. americana and T. patula leaves increased significantly after 3 days of the EDDS application. However, T. patula had a biomass 2.57 times and Cd absorption capacity 10.06 times higher than P. americana. EDDS showed almost no influence on the stem and leaf biomass of T. patula; however, the root weight decreased by 9.44–71.77%. The Cd concentration in T. patula leaves of all the treatments was 1.00–1.81 times that of the control group. In comparison with other treatments, the EDDS application (3 mM) before 15 days of harvest extracted the highest amount of Cd (601.45 μg/pot) in T. patula shoots, reaching 1.40 times that in the control group. Therefore, T. patula might be a more suitable phytoremediator for Cd-polluted alkaline soil than P. americana; the most effective method was the EDDS application (3 mM) before 15 days of harvest.

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This work was supported by the Science and Technology Innovation Project from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (No. CAASXTCX-xym-2018), and the China Agriculture Research System (CARS-03-25).

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  1. Innovation Team of Remediation for Heavy Metal Contaminated Farmlands, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Tianjin, 300191, People’s Republic of China

    Yale Wang, Yingming Xu, Xu Qin, Xuefeng Liang, Qingqing Huang & Yunying Peng

  2. Key Laboratory of Original Environmental Pollution Control, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Tianjin, 300191, People’s Republic of China

    Yale Wang, Yingming Xu, Xu Qin, Xuefeng Liang, Qingqing Huang & Yunying Peng

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Wang, Y., Xu, Y., Qin, X. et al. Effects of EDDS on the Cd uptake and growth of Tagetes patula L. and Phytolacca americana L. in Cd-contaminated alkaline soil in northern China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 25248–25260 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08877-z

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