We studied the profitable phytoremediation method with commercial chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum indicum L.) in order to remediate the soils contaminated with heavy metals and generate economy income from the contaminated sites.
Materials and methods
A field experiment was carried out to remediate the contaminated soil through growing the commercial chrysanthemum plants in a farmland polluted with heavy metals of Cd and Zn due to application of creek sediments in the western suburb of Shanghai, Southeast China, since June 2013.
Results and discussion
After the consecutive 3 years of phytoremediation, Cd and Zn contents in the soil were reduced by 78.1% and 28.4%, respectively. We also found that the rice grain growing on the 3-year phytoremediated soil met the requirements of dietary safety, so did the vegetable growing on the 5-year phytoremediated soil.
Conclusions
Growing chrysanthemum plants as a method of phytoremediation can not only remove a large amount of toxic heavy metals from the contaminated soil but also be highly profitable from the sales of chrysanthemum flowers.
Orychophragmus violaceus, a ground covering plant that is widely distributed in China. It has both high economical value in food, forage, health care
and ornamental value in gardening. In this study, the genetic diversity of 245 individuals from nine populations in China
were investigated using the inter-simple sequence repeat markers. Of the 100 primers screened, eight were highly polymorphic.
Using these primers, 162 discernible DNA fragments were generated with 150 (92.59%) being polymorphic, indicating a pronounced
genetic variation at the species level. Also, there were high levels of polymorphism at the population level with the percentage
of polymorphic bands ranging from 85.74 to 90.06%. Analysis of molecular variance showed that the genetic variation within
populations was 80.80% and the variance among populations was 16.43%. The Nei’s GST (0.1643) and gene flow among populations (Nm = 2.5760) revealed large gene exchanges among populations. O. violaceus belongs to out-crossing plants. It is capable of reproducing by self-sowing, thus can influence population genetic structure.
The pronounced genetic variation within populations tells us that O. violaceus is a proper plant for genetic research and that there is great potential of breeding this species for gardening. 相似文献
Irrigation-induced soil erosion seriously affects the sustainability of irrigated agriculture. The effects of irrigation water quality and furrow gradient on runoff and soil loss were studied under simulated furrow irrigation in laboratory using a soil collected from an experimental station of China Agricultural University, North China. The experimental treatments were different combinations of irrigation water salt concentrations of 5, 10, 20, and 30 mmolc L-1, sodium adsorption ratios (SAR) of 0.5, 5.0, and 10.0 (mmolc L-1)0.5, and furrow gradients of 1%, 3%, and 5%, with distilled water for irrigation at 3 furrow gradients as controls. The experimental data indicated that total runoff amount, sediment concentration in runoff, and total soil loss amount generally decreased with increasing salt concentration in irrigation water but increased with its sodicity and furrow gradient. The effects of water quality and furrow gradient on soil loss were greater than those on runoff, and the increase of furrow gradient decreased the influence of water quality on soil loss. When the salt concentration increased from 5 to 30 mmolc L-1 at SAR of 10.0 (mmolc L-1)0.5, total runoff amount, sediment concentration, and total soil loss amount decreased by 3.89%, 52.1%, and 53.92%, and 10.57%, 38.86%, and 42.03% at the furrow gradients of 1% and 5%, respectively. However, they respectively increased by 3.37%, 45.34%, and 55.36%, and 3.86%, 10.77%, and 13.91% when SAR increased from 0.5 to 10.0 (mmolc L-1)0.5 at the salt concentration of 5 mmolc L-1. Irrigation water quality and furrow gradient should be comprehensively considered in the planning and management of furrow irrigation practices to decrease soil loss and improve water utilization efficiency. 相似文献