Abstract
Abstract Phytoremediation is a new technology that uses specially selected metal‐accumulating plants as an attractive and economical method to clean up soils contaminated with heavy metals and radionuclides. The integration of specially selected metal‐accumulating crop plants (Brassica juncea (L) Czern.) with innovative soil amendments allows plants to achieve high biomass and metal accumulation rates. In a recent study conducted at a lead‐contaminated site in Trenton, New Jersey, the soil was treated with phytoremediation using successive crops of B. juncea combined with soil amendments. Through phytoremediation, the average surface soil lead concentration was reduced by 13 percent. In addition, the target soil concentration of 400 mg/kg was achieved in approximately 72 percent of the treated area in one cropping season.
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Claim · model-written summary
Phytoremediation with successive Brassica juncea crops and soil amendments reduced average surface soil lead concentration by 13 percent.
- Taxon
- Brassica juncea
Brassica junceae0 - Treatment
- successive crops of B. juncea combined with soil amendmentse1
- Outcome
- average surface soil lead concentratione2
- Direction
- reducede2
- Value
- 13 percente2
- Setting
- Trenton, New Jerseye4
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Verbatim
e0“(Brassica juncea (L) Czern.)”
e1“the soil was treated with phytoremediation using successive crops of B. juncea combined with soil amendments”
e2“the average surface soil lead concentration was reduced by 13 percent”
e4“in Trenton, New Jersey”
Claim · model-written summary
The target soil lead concentration of 400 mg/kg was achieved in about 72 percent of the treated area in one cropping season.
- Taxon
- Brassica junceaBrassica junceae0
- Treatment
- successive crops of B. juncea combined with soil amendmentse1
- Outcome
- target soil concentratione3
- Value
- 72 percente3
- Setting
- Trenton, New Jerseye4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“(Brassica juncea (L) Czern.)”
e1“the soil was treated with phytoremediation using successive crops of B. juncea combined with soil amendments”
e3“the target soil concentration of 400 mg/kg was achieved in approximately 72 percent of the treated area in one cropping season”
e4“in Trenton, New Jersey”
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