abstract the use of plants for remediation of heavy metals contaminated soils is an economical, cheap and effective strategy. this research was conducted in order to study the effect of potassium chloride on cadmium uptake and enhancement of it's phytoremediation by canola (brassica napus l.) and sunflower (helianthus annuus l.) in a cadmium polluted soil from angoran in zanjan province. in a r...

The effect of cadmium chloride concentrations (25.50, 75, and 100 mg/kg soil), seeds pre-irradiated by low doses of gamma rays (15, 30, 45, and 60 Gy), potassium chloride (60 mg/kg soil) and the combination of cadmium + gamma and cadmium + potassium on Brassica rapa germination, oxidative stress and antioxidant system were investigated under laboratory and greenhouse conditions. Germination per...

Cadmium is a dangerous metal distributed widely in the environment. Members of our laboratory recently identified the ZIP8 transporter protein, encoded by the mouse Slc39a8 gene, to be responsible for genetic differences in response to cadmium damage of the testis. Stable retroviral infection of the ZIP8 cDNA in mouse fetal fibroblast cultures (rvZIP8 cells) leads to as much as a 10-fold increa...

The effect of ions presence such as: Na, K, Ca, Cl, SO4 and CO3, at various initial concentrations, on the kinetics of cadmium sorption by dried activated sludge was studied at 25°C and free initial pH solution in batch conditions. The presence of these ions in solution was found to inhibit slightly the uptake of cadmium by dried activated sludge at different degrees: sodium, potassium, calcium...

The induction of aneuploidy by physical and chemical agents using different test systems was evaluated. The effect of X-rays, caffeine, acetaldehyde, ethanol, diethylstilbestrol, propionaldehyde, and chloral hydrate was studied by chromosome counting in Chinese hamster embryonic diploid cells. Aneugenic ability of cadmium chloride, cadmium sulfate, potassium dichromate, chromium chloride, nicke...

Chloride (Cl-) has been related to increased phytoavailability of cadmium (Cd) in soil. A glasshouse experiment using a historically contaminated soil was undertaken to evaluate the effect of chloride on Cd uptake by salt-tolerant plants and possibly quantify the uptake of discrete Cd species (e.g. Cd2+, CdCl+, CdCl(0)2). Chloride treatments were applied as 100 mM NaCl and compared with equival...