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Article

Nickel Phytoremediation Potential of Some Plant Species of the Lower Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

by
Muhammad A. Sajad
1,
Muhammad S. Khan
1,
Saraj Bahadur
2,*,
Muhammad Shuaib
3,
Abdul Naeem
4,
Wajid Zaman
5,6 and
Hazrat Ali
7
1
Department of Botany, Islamia College University Peshawar, Peshawar 25100, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
2
Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
3
School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China
4
National Center of Excellence in Physical Chemistry, University of Peshawar, Peshawar 25130, Pakistan
5
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
6
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
7
Department of Zoology, University of Malakand, Dir Lower, Chakdara 18800, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Limnol. Rev. 2020, 20(1), 13-22; https://doi.org/10.2478/limre-2020-0002
Published: 16 July 2020

Abstract

Nickel is a known hepatotoxic, haemotoxic, pulmonary toxic, nephrotoxic, reproductive toxic, carcinogenic, phytotoxic and neurotoxic agent. The adverse ecological impacts from unnecessary heavy metals include contamination of water and soil which pose serious threats to human health. This study was conducted to screen plants for the phytoremediation of nickel from sixty-one sites of the Lower Dir. Nickel-metal was analyzed in the soil, roots and shoots of plants. The total concentration of nickel in soil, roots and shoots was found to be in the range of 1.03–18.98, 12.63–540.73 and 12.00–295.86 mg kg−1 dry weight basis (DW) respectively. The highest nickel contents were present in the roots of Xanthium strumarium (540.73) and shoots of Bryophyllum daigremontianum (295.86). None of the plant species were identified as hyper accumulators for nickel but based on BCF, TF and BAC values most of the species showed feasibility for its phytoextraction and phytostabilization. Xanthium strumarium, Filago hurdwarica, Ranunculus arvensis, Medicago lupulina, Cannabis sativa, Geranium rotundifolium and Cerastium glomeratum are suggested for the phytostabilization of nickel whereas Bryophyllum daigremontianum, Rosularia adenotricha, Iris germanica, Asplenium dalhousiae and Isatis tinctoria for the phytoextraction of soil contaminated with nickel.
Keywords: phytoremediation; phytoextraction; phytostabilization; nickel-metal phytoremediation; phytoextraction; phytostabilization; nickel-metal

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Sajad, M.A.; Khan, M.S.; Bahadur, S.; Shuaib, M.; Naeem, A.; Zaman, W.; Ali, H. Nickel Phytoremediation Potential of Some Plant Species of the Lower Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Limnol. Rev. 2020, 20, 13-22. https://doi.org/10.2478/limre-2020-0002

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Sajad MA, Khan MS, Bahadur S, Shuaib M, Naeem A, Zaman W, Ali H. Nickel Phytoremediation Potential of Some Plant Species of the Lower Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Limnological Review. 2020; 20(1):13-22. https://doi.org/10.2478/limre-2020-0002

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Sajad, Muhammad A., Muhammad S. Khan, Saraj Bahadur, Muhammad Shuaib, Abdul Naeem, Wajid Zaman, and Hazrat Ali. 2020. "Nickel Phytoremediation Potential of Some Plant Species of the Lower Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan" Limnological Review 20, no. 1: 13-22. https://doi.org/10.2478/limre-2020-0002

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Sajad, M. A., Khan, M. S., Bahadur, S., Shuaib, M., Naeem, A., Zaman, W., & Ali, H. (2020). Nickel Phytoremediation Potential of Some Plant Species of the Lower Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Limnological Review, 20(1), 13-22. https://doi.org/10.2478/limre-2020-0002

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