Short-term alleviation of aluminum phytotoxicity by urea application in acid soils from south China

A laboratory experiment was conducted to study effects of urea fertilizer on the chemical composition of soil solutions over time, and to determine Al toxicity as a function of rates of urea application. The experiment revealed that addition of urea fertilizer to soils caused drastic changes in soil pH during the hydrolysis and nitrification stages of urea transformation in the experiment. These pH changes, depending on the N rate of urea application and time courses, had variable effects on soil exchangeable Al, extracted with artificial solutions containing 1 mol l(-1) KCl. The Al mobilization rate could be resolved into two phases: A declining phase for Al was attributed to the urea-induced hydrolysis while a second rising phase was dependent with the nitrification of added N fertilizer. The decreases in exchangeable Al reached the greatest in 4-7 days after fertilization, consistent with soil pH increase. Decreased Al availability had been observed as a consequence of increasing urea addition and soil pH when using Root elongation of maize seedlings as the estimators. Results from the present study demonstrate that urea fertilizer to the surface of soils may lead to a temporary immobilization of Al and, therefore, alleviated Al toxicity to plant seedlings.     

十六烷基三甲基溴化铵改性生物炭对水中镉离子吸附性能的影响

针对水体重金属污染治理问题,通过十六烷基三甲基溴化铵(CTAB)对竹炭(BC)、椰壳炭(CSC)进行改性, 采用傅里叶红外变换光谱(FT-IR)、扫描电镜(SEM)、X射线光电子能谱分析(XPS)和热稳定性分析(TGA)对改性前后的材料进行了表征,探究了投加量、pH对2种改性材料吸附去除水中镉离子性能的影响,并进行了动力学方程拟合及等温吸附模型拟合,探讨了CTAB改性前后活性炭吸附水中镉离子的机理。结果表明：2种CTAB改性材料基本结构虽未改变,但提升了竹炭(BC)和椰壳炭(CSC)的吸附性能,改性后材料的饱和吸附量分别为12.56 mg·g⁻¹(CTAB-BC)、10.71 mg·g⁻¹ (CTAB-CSC),较改性前分别提高了111%和92%;同时,CTAB-BC、CTAB-CSC的吸附量受pH影响较大,对二者的最适pH分别为4~7、6~7;CTAB-BC、CTAB-CSC均能较好地拟合准二级动力学方程(R²_CTAB-BC=0.999 9, R²_CTAB-CSC=0.993 7)及Langmuir模型(R²_CTAB-BC =0.970 3, R²_CTAB-CSC=0.976 8)。通过分析可知,CTAB-CSC、CTAB-BC 2种材料对含镉废水均有较好的去除效果。     

Effect of bamboo biochar on reducing grain cadmium content in two contrasting wheat genotypes

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Wheat is the second most important food crop worldwide, which is prone to accumulate cadmium (Cd). Accumulation of Cd in wheat grains depends not only...     

生物炭对Cd污染土壤的修复效果与机理

通过修复培养实验和BCR连续提取实验研究牛粪生物炭（DM）和水稻秸秆生物炭（RS）对2种镉污染土壤的修复效果、影响因素及修复后的Cd的形态分布,探讨可能存在的修复机理。经56 d修复后,与CK相比,5%添加量的牛粪生物炭（DM5%）和水稻秸秆生物炭（RS5%）使TCLP提取态Cd在S1土壤中分别降低了15%和18%,在S2土壤中分别降低了5%和6%。但生物炭添加量为1%时对S2土壤中Cd无显著修复效果。DM5%和RS5%处理使Cd的酸可溶态在S1土壤中降低8.66%和9.25%,在S2土壤中降低7.86%和13.4%,相应的残渣态在S1土壤中升高8.30%和10.54%,在S2土壤中升高8.67%和14.92%。同时,DM5%和RS5%处理使土壤pH提高了7.69%~13.13%,TCLP提取态P增高了0.046~0.39 mg·g-1。结果表明,添加量为5%的牛粪生物炭和秸秆生物炭可有效修复Cd污染土壤。     

KOH活化制备蚕沙基生物炭及其对镉的吸附特性

以蚕沙生物炭为原料,以KOH为活化剂,通过浸渍(KBC)和浸渍-热解(KBC400)活化工艺制备蚕沙基生物炭,用于吸附去除水体中的镉离子(Cd2+).运用一系列的表征技术分析了生物炭的形貌和性质,并通过批量实验考察了投加量、pH、共存离子、吸附时间和Cd2+浓度等因素对Cd2+吸附性能的影响.表征实验结果表明,活化的蚕...     

Effect of cadmium on cytogenetic toxicity in hairy roots of Wedelia trilobata L. and their alleviation by exogenous CaCl2

Effects of cadmium (Cd) alone and in combination with calcium on mitosis and chromosomal aberration in the hairy root tips of Wedelia trilobata were investigated. The results showed that Cd concentrations below 50 μmol/L had a lesser or even a promoting effect on the mitotic index (MI) and the rate of chromosomal aberration in hairy root tips, while those higher than 100 μmol/L significantly decreased the MI and gradually stimulated the rate of chromosomal aberrations with prolonged time and increasing concentrations of Cd. Concentrations of 50 μmol/L Cd mainly induced C-mitosis, while more than 100 μmol/L Cd mainly caused chromosome breakage and chromosome adhesion in hairy root tip cells. When cultured with 300 μmol/L Cd, micronuclei were only observed in the interphase, middle, and late phase of hairy root tip cells. Compared with untreated controls, exogenous calcium had an alleviating effect on Cd-induced cytotoxicity by effectively enhancing the MI and reducing the rate of chromosomal aberration in root tip cells. The results presented here provide evidence that W. trilobata hairy roots with rapid autonomous growth could be used as a sensitive tool for monitoring and evaluation of Cd pollution in the environment.     

污泥基生物炭吸附重金属Cd的动力学和热力学

炭化是污泥资资源化利用的重要途径。研究了污泥基生物炭对Cd的吸附过程,探讨了污泥基生物炭吸附重金属Cd的动力学和热力学特征。结果显示污泥基生物炭对Cd的吸附符合准二级动力学方程。Freundlich方程能较好的模拟吸附等温线。随着温度增加,吸附呈现逐渐增强趋势。吸附热力学结果显示35℃时吸附并非自发进行,随着温度增加,吸附转为吸热并自发进行。污泥基生物炭对Cd的吸附主要以化学吸附为主,同时存在多种机制共同作用。研究结果表明污泥基生物炭有作为重金属Cd污染废水修复剂的潜力。     

Manganese-modified biochar for highly efficient sorption of cadmium

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - In this study, corn stalk was modified by manganese (Mn) before (MBC1) and after (MBC2) pyrolysis at different temperatures (400~600 °C)...     

The immobilisation and retention of soluble arsenic, cadmium and zinc by biochar

Water-soluble inorganic pollutants may constitute an environmental toxicity problem if their movement through soils and potential transfer to plants or groundwater is not arrested. The capability of biochar to immobilise and retain arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd) and zinc (Zn) from a multi-element contaminated sediment-derived soil was explored by a column leaching experiment and scanning electron microanalysis (SEM/EDX). Sorption of Cd and Zn to biochar’s surfaces assisted a 300 and 45-fold reduction in their leachate concentrations, respectively. Retention of both metals was not affected by considerable leaching of water-soluble carbon from biochar, and could not be reversed following subsequent leaching of the sorbant biochar with water at pH 5.5. Weakly water-soluble As was also retained on biochar’s surface but leachate concentrations did not duly decline. It is concluded that biochar can rapidly reduce the mobility of selected contaminants in this polluted soil system, with especially encouraging results for Cd.     

Characterization of cadmium-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae MCC 3091 promoted rice seedling growth by alleviating phytotoxicity of cadmium

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Cadmium (Cd) phytotoxicity in agricultural land is a major global concern now-a-days resulting in very poor yield. Plant growth-promoting...     

生物炭对土壤吸附邻苯二甲酸二乙酯的影响

选择花生壳为原材料,采用限氧升温法在450、700℃温度下分别热解2、4、6 h制备6种生物炭,在对其表面性质和元素组成进行分析的基础上,重点考察生物炭对土壤吸附邻苯二甲酸二乙酯（diethyl phthalate,DEP）的影响。结果表明：生物炭的比表面积和总孔体积随着热解温度的升高而增加,热解时间的延长也会提高比表面积和总孔体积,而4 h是较为适宜的热解时间;生物炭中元素组成主要受热解温度的影响,热解时间的作用很小,热解温度的升高使生物炭的芳香性增强,极性降低;添加生物炭能显著提高土壤对DEP的吸附能力;Langmuir模型和Freundlich模型均能较好地拟合添加生物炭土壤对DEP的吸附特征;在不同的平衡浓度条件下,生物炭对土壤吸附DEP的贡献率介于82.07%~99.49%之间,表明生物炭对土壤中DEP的吸附发挥着主导作用。相关分析发现,吸附参数ΔKoc与生物炭的比表面积和总孔体积具有显著相关性,提高比表面积和改善孔隙结构可以增强生物炭对DEP的吸附能力。     

Electrical properties of plant root cell plasma membrane influence the alleviation of Al and Cu phytotoxicity by Ca and Mg cations

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Although it is known that cations such as calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) can alleviate metal toxicity in plants, much uncertainty remains regarding...     

Effects of biowaste-derived biochar on the dynamic behavior of cadmium fractions in soils

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - As a commonly used amendment to soil contaminated by heavy metals, biochar has attracted great attention and has been applied for decades due to the...     

不同原料和炭化温度下制备的生物炭结构及性质

以麦秆、稻杆和松木屑3种生物质为原料,在控制热分解条件下制备生物炭利用TG/DTG、Boehm滴定、FT-IR、XRD、TEM和吸附实验等方法对不同原料在350、550和750℃ 3个炭化温度下制备的生物炭形貌及其表面化学性质进行了表征。结果表明:最大热解速率所对应温度以松木屑为最高,表示热稳定性最好;不同原料在相同炭化温度下所制得的生物炭所含表面含氧官能团种类和总量相近,但pH值和吸附能力差别较大,其中麦秆制得的生物炭pH值最大,松木屑制得的生物炭吸附能力最强;随着炭化温度升高,相同原料制得生物炭表面含氧官能团总量减少,pH值升高,纤维素和半纤维素特征峰消失,芳构化程度增加,吸附性能总体呈先上升后下降的趋势。     

不同温度下制备花生壳生物炭的结构性质差异

热解温度是影响生物炭结构性质的重要因素。在200~700 ℃温度范围内,以花生壳为生物质原材料制备生物炭,并对生物炭的理化性质及结构组成进行表征,以期了解花生壳生物炭特征及其随热解温度变化的规律。结果表明,生物炭的产率随着温度的升高而减少,灰分和pH随着温度升高而增加。生物炭的C含量随着温度升高而增加,H元素含量却随着温度升高而减少。H/C随着温度的增加而减少。红外光谱分析表明,随着温度的升高生物炭的烷基基团减少,芳香化程度逐渐升高。500 ℃制备生物炭的K2Cr2O7和KMnO4氧化碳损失量最低,分别为18.6%和1.70%。X射线衍射分析表明,随着温度的升高,生物炭中草酸钙矿物分解消失,碳酸钙矿物形成。     

Effect of endophyte-infection on growth parameters and Cd-induced phytotoxicity of Cd-hyperaccumulator Solanum nigrum L

The aim of this work was to evaluate effects of endophytic bacterium inoculation on plant growth and assess the possible mechanism of endophyte in heavy metal phytoremediation. Seeds of Solanum nigrum L. were inoculated with endophyte Serratia nematodiphila LRE07 and were subjected to Cd in the growing medium. Cd produced a significant inhibition on plant growth and a reduction in the content of photosynthetic pigments. The inoculation of endophytic bacterium alleviated the Cd-induced changes, resulting in more biomass production and higher photosynthetic pigments content of leaves compared with non-symbiotic ones. The beneficial effect was more obvious at relatively low Cd concentration (10 μM). Based on the alteration of nutrient uptake and activated oxygen metabolism in infected plants, the possible mechanisms of endophytic bacterium in Cd phytotoxicity reduction can be concluded as uptake enhancement of essential mineral nutrition and improvement in the antioxidative enzymes activities in infected plant.     

Effect of biochar on nitrous oxide emission and its potential mechanisms

Extensive use of biochar to mitigate nitrous oxide (N₂O) emission is limited by the lack of understanding on the exact mechanisms altering N₂O emission from biochar-amended soil. Biochars produced from rice straw and dairy manure at 350 and 500 °C by oxygen-limited pyrolysis were used to investigate their influence on N₂O emission. A quadratic effect of biochar levels was observed on the N₂O emissions. The potential mechanisms were explored by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) and real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). A lower relative abundance of bacteria, which included ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB), was observed at 4% biochar application rate. Reduced copy numbers of the ammonia monooxygenase gene amoA and the nitrite reductase gene nirS coincided with decreased N₂O emissions. Therefore, biochar may potentially alter N₂O emission by affecting ammonia-oxidizing and denitrification bacteria, which is determined by the application rate of biochar in soil.

Implications:Biochar research has received increased interest in recent years because of the potential beneficial effects of biochar on soil properties. Recent research shows that biochar can alter the rates of nitrogen cycling in soil systems by influencing nitrification and denitrification, which are key sources of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N₂O). However, there are still some controversial data. The purpose of this research was to (1) examine how applications of different dose of biochar to soil affect emission of N₂O and (2) improve the understanding of the underlying mechanisms.     

电动修复技术对土壤中镉迁移的影响

以镉含量为200 mg·kg-1的模拟污染土壤为研究对象,使用电动修复技术对土壤中的镉进行去除。实验研究了不同修复电压下电流密度、电解液pH值、土壤中镉含量的变化,并重点研究了修复电压对土壤中镉迁移的影响规律。实验结果表明,通电电压越大,电场强度越强,镉的迁移量越大,电动修复效率越高,当修复电压为50 V时,阴极区域附近镉的迁移量与修复电压为5 V时相同位置镉的迁移量相比可以提高30%,实验结果为重金属污染土壤电动修复过程中镉的迁移量化研究提供了参考。     

生物碳和土壤性质对乙草胺吸附行为的影响

生物碳施加到土壤中可能会影响污染物的环境归趋,而吸附作用是其关键控制因素,为此,本研究考察了400、500和600℃下制备的玉米秸秆生物碳(分别记作CS400、CS500和CS600)和土壤性质对乙草胺吸附行为的影响。结果表明,生物碳和土壤对乙草胺的吸附等温线符合Freundlich模型(R2≥0.99)。随着生物碳热解温度的升高(从CS400到CS600),生物碳吸附乙草胺的非线性指数n值减小且logKOC值增大,说明吸附非线性程度和吸附能力增强,这是因为生物碳炭化程度增强(H/C原子比减小),疏水性增强(O/C原子比减小)和比表面积增大而有利于对乙草胺的吸附,吸附机制以表面吸附为主(比如疏水作用、π-π EDA作用和孔填充作用)。然而,土壤吸附乙草胺的n值(0.95)接近1.0,说明该吸附作用几乎是线性吸附,以分配作用机制为主。3种生物碳对乙草胺的吸附能力都高于土壤,特别是CS600对乙草胺的吸附能力(logKOC)比土壤及文献报道的土壤和沉积物高一个数量及以上,说明生物碳可能会有效保留土壤中的乙草胺而降低其迁移性。     

生物菌肥与石灰配施对水稻吸收积累Cd的影响

采用田间随机区组试验的方法,研究了基施生物菌肥(Bi处理)与追施石灰(L处理)及其配合施用(Bi+L处理)对晚稻湘晚籼12号生物量、水稻对土壤Cd的富集情况、4个生育期内各部位间转运系数以及各部位中Cd含量的影响。结果表明,水稻各部位间Cd含量从大到小依次为根部、茎鞘、穗部、叶片,随不同生育期对营养物质的需求而改变,各处理不会影响水稻生物量及转运系数,并能降低水稻各部位富集Cd能力,使水稻糙米中Cd含量显著降低,其中以生物菌肥与石灰配施的降Cd效果最佳。