Accumulation of total mercury and methylmercury in rice plants collected from different mining areas in China

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 184, Issue , 2014, Pages 179-186

  Meng, Mei ^a   Li, Bing ^b   Shao, Jun Juan ^a   Wang, Thanh ^a   He, Bin ^a   Shi, Jian Bo ^a   Ye, Zhi Hong ^c   Jiang, Gui Bin ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b Guizhou Research and Design Academy of Environmental Sciences   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Hg; Methylmercury; Rice plants; Total mercury; Water soluble

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; METHYL MERCURY; RICE PLANTS; TOTAL MERCURIES; WATERSOLUBLE;

MERCURY (METAL); SOILS;

SEED;

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; WATER;

ACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; MINING; RHIZOSPHERE; RICE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHINA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MINING; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PLANT STEM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RICE; RICE HUSK; SOIL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUIZHOU; HUNAN;

ACCUMULATION; METHYLMERCURY; RICE PLANTS; TOTAL MERCURY; WATER SOLUBLE HG;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINING; ORYZA SATIVA; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84884630664     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.08.030     Document Type: Article

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