Arsenic accumulation in native plants of West Bengal, India: Prospects for phytoremediation but concerns with the use of medicinal plants

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2617-2631

  Tripathi, Preeti ^a   Dwivedi, Sanjay ^a   Mishra, Aradhana ^a   Kumar, Amit ^a   Dave, Richa ^a   Srivastava, Sudhakar ^b   Shukla, Mridul Kumar ^a   Srivastava, Pankaj Kumar ^a   Chakrabarty, Debasis ^a   Trivedi, Prabodh Kumar ^a   Tripathi, Rudra Deo ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Medicinal plants; Selenium; Specific Arsenic Uptake

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AQUATIC PLANTS; ARSENIC ACCUMULATION; ARSENIC UPTAKE; CENTELLA ASIATICA; CLASS I; DIRECT USE; FOOD CHAIN; MEDICINAL PLANTS; NATIVE PLANTS; PADDY FIELDS; PHYLLANTHUS AMARUS; PHYTOREMEDIATION; SITE-SPECIFIC; TERRESTRIAL PLANTS; TRANSFER FACTOR; WEST BENGAL , INDIA;

ARSENIC; BIOREMEDIATION; LEAD; SELENIUM;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARSENIC; COPPER; LEAD; SELENIUM; ZINC;

AQUATIC PLANT; ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; FOOD CHAIN; MEDICINAL PLANT; PADDY FIELD; PHYTOREMEDIATION; SELENIUM;

ALTERNANTHERA FICOIDEA; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CENTELLA ASIATICA; CYPERUS DIFFORMIS; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; INDIA; MARSILEA; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PHYLLANTUS AMARUS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYTOREMEDIATION; POLLUTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SOIL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

ARSENIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; PLANTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

INDIA; NADIA; WEST BENGAL;

ALTERNANTHERA TENELLA; CENTELLA ASIATICA; CYPERUS DIFFORMIS; FILICOPHYTA; MARSILEA; PHYLLANTHUS AMARUS;

EID: 84862857870     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2139-y     Document Type: Article

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