Fitoextração em solo contaminado com metais pesados / Phytoextraction of soil contaminated with heavy metals

Eloise Mello Viana

The industrial and urban progress associated with increased production of consumer goods has resulted in the generation of waste, which, for a long time, was indiscriminately discarded in the environment, causing damage usually irreversible to recover. Two experiments were conducted in soils contaminated with heavy metals: the first aimed at the disposal of products containing high loads of inorganic pollutants in the soil and the second focused on contamination due to the successive uses of fungicides containing copper in citrus groves of South Florida. The first study aimed to evaluate the use of organic soothers as mitigators of toxicity caused by barium, boron, cadmium, lead, copper, nickel and zinc in soil contaminated with waste resulting from the disposal of automobile scrap and to evaluate the phytoextraction potential of Jatropha (Jatropha curcas L.). It was observed that the supply of organic matter in the form of peat did not alleviate the contamination with heavy metals (Ba, Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) and B, which may be attributed to the high pH of the soil due to constant practices of liming. The items showed higher availability in the soil during the evaluations, except for boron which showed no significance. The plants showed symptoms of phytotoxicity caused by high levels of boron and heavy metals in the soil. Most metallic elements are accumulated in the stems and boron in the leaves of Jatropha curcas, thus, the plant was efficient in the translocation of these elements to the shoot, a situation is desirable in phytoextraction. At the end of the experiment, the concentrations of Ba, Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn were more available to plants. This indicates that the organic matter present in the peat mineralized and made these heavy metals more available to plants. Considering the transfer rates of translocation and removal, the Jatropha was feasible only for phytoextraction of boron in the contaminated area, which shows that Jatropha has the potential to accumulate B, Ba and Cd. The second experiment was conducted in a greenhouse in an alfisol collected in an area that received repeated applications of copper-based fungicides, which promoted significant accumulation of this element in soils under citrus production. The objective was to evaluate the potential for phytoextraction of copper by the Chinese plants Splendens elsholtzia and Argyi elsholtzia to remove excess of copper in contaminated soils due to repeated application of copper-based fungicides in citrus groves of South Florida. The dry weight of leaves, stems and roots and the concentration of copper in the tissues of Splendens elsholtzia were higher than in Argyi elsholtzia, which indicates that the Splendens elsholtzia is more tolerant to high copper levels in the soil. Thus, this species may be indicated for phytoextraction of soils contaminated with copper; however, the rate of copper translocation indicated that the two species were not efficient to translocate copper from root to shoot.

Fitoextração em solo contaminado com metais pesados / Phytoextraction of soil contaminated with heavy metals

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