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Jameel A Baig1, Tasneem G Kazi, Abdul Q Shah, Hassan I Afridi, Ghulam A Kandhro, Sumaira Khan, Nida F Kolachi, Sham K Wadhwa, Faheem Shah, Mohammad B Arain, Muhammad Khan Jamali.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the uptake of arsenic (As) by grain crops (wheat, maize and sorghum) grown on agricultural soil irrigated with tube well water (SIT) as test samples and for comparative purposes, same grain crop samples grown on agricultural soil irrigated with fresh canal water (SIC) were marked as control samples, collected simultaneously from three sub-districts of Khairpur, Pakistan. Moreover, this paper demonstrated the total and EDTA (0.05 M) extractable As in both understudied soils that correlate with the respective total As in the edible parts of the studied grain crops. A significantly high accumulation of As was found in grains grown on SIT as compared to those grown on SIC. This study highlights the increased danger of growing food crops in the agricultural land continuously irrigated by As contaminated ground water.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID： 21056610 DOI： 10.1016/j.fct.2010.11.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Food Chem Toxicol ISSN： 0278-6915 Impact factor: 6.023