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A Study of the Zinc Lability and Bioavailability in Soil Using 65Zn in a Vegetation Lysimetric Experiment

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The transfer of zinc (natural stable Zn and radioactive tracer 65Zn) to aqueous phase and its uptake by barley have been studied using a specially designed vegetation testbench comprising a lysimeter unit filled with coarse-textured soil and drainage and the vegetation vessels with aqueous barley culture. Although the zinc migration to soil aqueous phase and its uptake by plants are spatially separated, they are sequentially coupled. The patterns of Zn(65Zn) distribution among different compounds (chemical fractions) in soil were determined using parallel and sequential fractionation procedures. The relative content of native (stable) Zn in labile and conventionally labile forms is 2.1–6.5-fold lower as compared with the relative content of radionuclide 65Zn and, vice versa, 2.8–3.0-fold higher for conservative (fixed) fractions of the metal in soil. The dynamics of the following parameters were assessed: Zn concentration, 65Zn specific activity, distribution and concentration factors of natural Zn and 65Zn, and uptake and removal of the metal by plants. The enrichment factors of stable Zn, contained in sequentially extracted chemical fractions, with radioisotope 65Zn, were determined, and the pool of the labile zinc compounds in the studied soil was evaluated.

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The work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-29-05039) and Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (project no. FGNE 2021-0002).

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Anisimov, V.S., Anisimova, L.N., Sanzharov, A.I. et al. A Study of the Zinc Lability and Bioavailability in Soil Using 65Zn in a Vegetation Lysimetric Experiment. Eurasian Soil Sc. 55, 437–451 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229322040032

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