Soil Pollution Enhances the Accumulation of Heavy Metals in Plants
Hala M. Ibrahim
Central Pesticides Laboratory, Pesticides Analysis Research Division, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt
Nahed M. M. Selim *
Central Pesticides Laboratory, Pesticides Analysis Research Division, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Soil Pollution Enhances the Accumulation of Heavy Metals in Plants
The determine heavy metals levels (Cu, Pb, Cd and As), in different samples (Tomato, Cucumber, Hot Green Peppers, Spinach, Green Beans, Eggplant, Beans of Harati, Zucchini and its soil ). The samples collected from different Egyptian fields (Bani Salamah, Barkata, and Ministry of Agriculture). The obtained results show that in many of the samples increase the heavy elements in the plant more than the soil Perhaps due to the absorption of quantitative heavy elements from soil to plant as well as keep in mind the other causes of them an increase in the amount of spraying pesticides on them and there are other reasons, absorb part of the pollution of the surrounding environment.
Keywords: Heavy metals, atomic absorption spectrometry, vegetables and soils contamination