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Element Case Studies: Cadmium and Zinc

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Agromining: Farming for Metals

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Sedum plumbizincicola (Crassulaceae), a new Sedum species, was originally discovered in 2005 in Zhejiang Province, eastern PR China. It was identified as a Cd-Zn hyperaccumulator in 2007. During the past decade, great efforts have been made to understand its metal-accumulating capacities, physiological mechanisms for metal hypertolerance and hyperaccumulation, enhancing measures of phytoextraction, field application phytoremediation practice, and disposal of harvested biomass. This chapter provides a brief review of the progress on phytoremediation of Cd- and Zn-contaminated soils using this species. Agronomic measures to enhance Cd and Zn phytoextraction efficiency by S. plumbizincicola were studied, including cultivation management, intercropping with other plant species, and nutrient management. Changes in soil and plant metal uptake were investigated during long-term and repeated phytoextraction of Cd- and Zn-contaminated soils using S. plumbizincicola. Field assessment results confirm that phytoextraction using S. plumbizincicola is a promising technique for the remediation of slightly Cd-polluted soils without the need to halt normal agricultural production.

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This review was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41325003), and the Chinese High Technology Research and Development Programme (2012AA06A204 and 2006AA10Z406). We thank Alan J.M. Baker and Antony van der Ent for helpful comments on the manuscript.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

    Longhua Wu, Pengjie Hu, Zhu Li, Tong Zhou & Daoxu Zhong

  2. Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Environmental Processes, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, People’s Republic of China

    Yongming Luo

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  1. Laboratoire Sols et Environnement, UMR 1120, Université de Lorraine-INRA, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

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Wu, L., Hu, P., Li, Z., Zhou, T., Zhong, D., Luo, Y. (2018). Element Case Studies: Cadmium and Zinc. In: Van der Ent, A., Echevarria, G., Baker, A., Morel, J. (eds) Agromining: Farming for Metals. Mineral Resource Reviews. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61899-9_18

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