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Reducing the bioavailability of cadmium in contaminated soil by dithiocarbamate chitosan as a new remediation

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Dithiocarbamate chitosan (DTC-CTS) was used as a new amendment for remediation of cadmium (Cd)-contaminated soils to reduce the Cd bioavailability. Arabidopsis thaliana was chosen as a model plant to evaluate its efficiency. It was found that DTC-CTS could effectively improve the growth of A. thaliana. The amount of Cd up-taken by A. thaliana could be decreased by as much as 50 % compared with that grown in untreated Cd-contaminated soil samples. The chlorophyll content and the aerial biomass of Arabidopsis also increased substantially and eventually returned to a level comparable to plants grown in non-contaminated soils, with the addition of DTC-CTS. These findings suggested that DTC-CTS amendment could be effective in immobilizing Cd and mitigating its accumulation in plants grown in Cd-contaminated soils, with potential application as an in situ remediation of Cd-polluted soils.

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This work was supported by the Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, CAS.

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  1. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China

    Zheng Yin & Dong Qiu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, People’s Republic of China

    Jingjing Cao & Zhen Li

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

    Zheng Yin

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Yin, Z., Cao, J., Li, Z. et al. Reducing the bioavailability of cadmium in contaminated soil by dithiocarbamate chitosan as a new remediation. Environ Sci Pollut Res 22, 9668–9675 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-4094-6

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