Modelling metal accumulation using humic acid as a surrogate for plant roots

Le, T.T. Yen; Swartjes, Frank; Romkens, Paul; Groenenberg, Jan E.; Wang, Peng; Lofts, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3627-851X; Hendriks, A. Jan. 2015 Modelling metal accumulation using humic acid as a surrogate for plant roots. Chemosphere, 124. 61-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.11.003

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Abstract/Summary

Metal accumulation in roots was modelled with WHAM VII using humic acid (HA) as a surrogate for root surface. Metal accumulation was simulated as a function of computed metal binding to HA, with a correction term (EHA) to account for the differences in binding site density between HA and root surface. The approach was able to model metal accumulation in roots to within one order of magnitude for 95% of the data points. Total concentrations of Mn in roots of Vigna unguiculata, total concentrations of Ni, Zn, Cu and Cd in roots of Pisum sativum, as well as internalized concentrations of Cd, Ni, Pb and Zn in roots of Lolium perenne, were significantly correlated to the computed metal binding to HA. The method was less successful at modelling metal accumulation at low concentrations and in soil experiments. Measured concentrations of Cu internalized in L. perenne roots were not related to Cu binding to HA modelled and deviated from the predictions by over one order of magnitude. The results indicate that metal uptake by roots may under certain conditions be influenced by conditional physiological processes that cannot simulated by geochemical equilibrium. Processes occurring in chronic exposure of plants grown in soil to metals at low concentrations complicate the relationship between computed metal binding to HA and measured metal accumulation in roots.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.11.003
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Shore
ISSN:	0045-6535
Additional Keywords:	root uptake, metal, modelling, WHAM, affinity
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
Date made live:	10 Dec 2014 17:02 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/508928

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.11.003

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Shore

ISSN:

0045-6535

Additional Keywords:

root uptake, metal, modelling, WHAM, affinity

NORA Subject Terms:

Ecology and Environment