Accumulation of heavy metals in dietary vegetables and cultivated soil horizon in organic farming system in relation to atmospheric deposition in a seasonally dry tropical region of India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 148, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 61-74

  Pandey, Jiten ^a   Pandey, Usha ^b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Faculty of Science and Technology   (India)

Author keywords

Atmospheric deposition; Dietary intake; Heavy metals; Organic farming; Soil contamination; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERICS; BIOMASS; CADMIUM; COPPER; CROPS; FRUITS; HEAVY METALS; HEAVY WATER; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; METALS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOILS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; ZINC;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; DIETARY INTAKE; ORGANIC FARMING; SOIL CONTAMINATION; VEGETABLES;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CADMIUM; CARBON; COPPER; FLUORESCEIN DIACETATE; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; NICKEL; ZINC;

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOACCUMULATION; BULK DENSITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAVY METAL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; ORGANIC FARMING; SOIL QUALITY; TIMESCALE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETABLE; WATER RETENTION;

AMARANTHUS; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; AUBERGINE; BIOACCUMULATION; BULK DENSITY; CARROT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; INDIA; METAL METABOLISM; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC FARMING; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADISH; SEASONAL RAIN FOREST; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL QUALITY; SPINACH; TOMATO; VEGETABLE;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INDIA; METALS, HEAVY; SEASONS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; VEGETABLES;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

AMARANTHUS; DAUCUS CAROTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 58049166255     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-0139-8     Document Type: Article

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