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Accumulation and Phytoavailability of Hexachlorocyclohexane Isomers and Cadmium in Allium sativum L. Under the Stress of Hexachlorocyclohexane and Cadmium

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The effects of Cd and HCHs with single and combined forms on Cd and HCHs phytoavailability of Allium sativum L. were investigated. The results indicated that the coexistence of Cd and HCHs presented antagonistic interactions mostly, which might be partly due to the formation of Cd–HCHs complex, compared with single stress. The bioaccumulation of Cd and HCHs in plants depended largely on their concentrations applied in pot soils, and the phytoavailability of HCH isomers was in the sequence: δ- > γ- ≥ β- > α-HCH.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Ministry of Land and Resources’ Special Funds for Scientific Research on Public Benefit(No.201011006-1)and the National Key Basic Research and Development (973) Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB407302). In addition, we thank the participating institutes, as well as the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments regarding the manuscript.

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    Zhifan Chen, Tingzhong Guo & Lei Gu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

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Chen, Z., Zhao, Y., Guo, T. et al. Accumulation and Phytoavailability of Hexachlorocyclohexane Isomers and Cadmium in Allium sativum L. Under the Stress of Hexachlorocyclohexane and Cadmium. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 90, 182–187 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-012-0882-6

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