Arsenic bioavailability to rice is elevated in Bangladeshi paddy soils

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 8515-8521

  Khan, M Asaduzzaman ^a   Stroud, Jacqueline L ^a   Zhu, Yong Guan ^b   McGrath, Steve P ^a   Zhao, Fang Jie ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC BIOAVAILABILITY; AS SPECIES; BENGAL DELTA; DIMETHYLARSINIC ACIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGENIC; GRAIN YIELD; GREENHOUSE GROWN PLANTS; IRRIGATION WATERS; MINING ACTIVITIES; PADDY FIELDS; PADDY SOILS; PORE WATERS; POT EXPERIMENT; RICE CULTIVARS; RICE GRAINS; RICE STRAWS; YIELD LOSS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ARSENIC; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GRAIN GROWTH; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRRIGATION; SOILS; WATER SUPPLY;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CACODYLIC ACID;

ARSENIC; ARSENITE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOINDICATOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP YIELD; DELTA; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FLOODING; FOOD CHAIN; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRRIGATION; MINING; ORGANIC ACID; PADDY FIELD; PHYTOTOXICITY; RICE; STRAW; YIELD RESPONSE;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOODING; GRAIN YIELD; GREENHOUSE; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT GROWTH; RICE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION; STRAW;

AGRICULTURE; ARSENIC; BANGLADESH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRESH WATER; ORYZA SATIVA; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BANGLADESH; CHINA;

EID: 78449256697     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101952f     Document Type: Article

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