Accumulation of Chromium in Vetiveria zizanioides Assisted by Earthworm (Eisenia foelide) in Contaminated Soil

Abstract:

The trial of the earthworm-assisted phytoremediation of Cr in contaminated yellow soil was made to study the performance of earthworm in Cr accumulation of Vetiver Grass (vetiveria Zizanioides VG). Two groups were designed, adding earth worm (marked EM) and not adding earth worm (marked NEW).The result showed Vetiveria Zizanioides can absorb great amounts of chromium in soil, the decline rate of Cr was up to 75% and 78% respectively in EM and NEM at 60th day. Both root and shoot can accumulate Cr from soil. As the concentration of Cr gradually increased within 0-80mg/kg,the accumulation activity of two groups presented first increase and then decrease and reached maximum 644.31mg/kg, 943.14 mg/kg in root when the Cr concentration was 80 mg/kg. It began to decrease when the Cr concentration was above 120mg/kg.Vetiveria Zizanioides's accumulation ability differs in root and shoot. It presented root>shoot. With a comparative analysis, EM has higher accumulation and resistance of Cr at any designed treatments. In the analysis of relation between plants and soils, it was found that there was significant correlation in Cr contents between plants and soils (P<0.05). Furthermore, there was extremely significant correlation (P<0.01) between root and shoot in EM. There was a high retention rate of Vetiveria Zizanioides root to Cr. Retention rate of any treatments were all greater than 83% except 120mg/kg in EM. Plants kept much higher concentrations of Cr in roots than in their respective shoots. The biggest value was up to 96.23%. There was no obvious difference between EM and NEM in retention rate. Earthworm-assisted phytoremediation has high efficiency in Cr contaminated soil. It’s an idea method to Cr contaminated soil.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 989-994)
• Pages: 1313-1318
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.989-994.1313
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Ke Zhang*, Qiang Chen, Hong Bing Luo, Xiao Ting Li
• Keywords: Accumulation, Cr Contaminated Soil, Earthworm, Vetiveria zizanioides

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