Contamination of Arsenic and Other Heavy Metals in Rhizospheric Soil

Khageshwar Singh Patel^1,2*, Bharat Lal Sahu¹, Shobhana Ramteke², Nitin Kumar Jaiswal³, Laura Borgese⁴, Alessandra Gianoncelli⁴, Elza Bontempi⁴

¹School of Studies in Chemistry, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India.
²School of Studies in Environmental Science, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India.
³Department of Chemistry, ITM University, Raipur, India.
⁴INSTM and Chemistry for Technologies Laboratory, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.

DOI: 10.4236/ajac.2015.610078                

Abstract

The contamination of arsenic (As) and other heavy metal (HMs) in soil causes serious health hazard to the ecosystem. In this work, the contamination of As and other heavy metals (i.e. Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn and Pb) in rhizospheric soil of 14 plants of the severely As contaminated area of Central India is described. Among them, high content of As in the rhizospheric soils was observed, ranging from 0.22 to 4.60 g/kg with mean value of 1.6 ± 0.7 g/kg. The concentration variation, enrichment indices and toxicities of the metals in the soil are described.

Keywords

Arsenic, Heavy Metal, Rhizospheric Soil

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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