Arsenic contamination of drinking water poses serious health risks to millions of people worldwide. Current technologies used to clean arsenic-contaminated water have significant drawbacks, such as high cost and generation of large volumes of toxic waste. In this study, we investigated the potential of using recently identified arsenic-hyperaccumulating ferns to remove arsenic from drinking wat...

The present study investigated the effect of arsenic (As) on photosynthesis and other selected physiological parameters in two ferns. ferns (Pteris cretica 'Albo-lineata' 'Parkerii') subjected to As doses 100 250 mg kg-1 for three months, showed different accumulation, which was higher Albo-lineata. Overall, obtained results indicated significant differences between studied individual effects g...

The heavy metal and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contents were evaluated in surface soil and plant samples of 18 wild species collected from 3 typical industrial sites in South Central China. The accumulative characteristics of the plant species for both heavy metal and PAHs were discussed. The simultaneous accumulation of heavy metal and PAHs in plant and soil was observed at all th...