Today, human activities such as pesticides, fertilizers, industrial and nuclear wastes, and Nano pollutants, which contain heavy metals, affect the performance and flexibility of soil ecosystems, microorganisms, and plants. It also pollutes surface water, groundwater and the food chain. The aim of this study was to investigate the phytoremediation potential of heavy metals from soil by Vetiver and the effect of these metals on plant morphological changes in greenhouse conditions. Soil contamination with heavy metals has become a worldwide concern. This research was conducted as a factorial design with four different heavy metals (lead, cadmium, manganese and nickel) with three varying levels and also three replications for each treatment. The results of analysis of variance, Duncan test, showed that the effect of applied treatments on lead uptake in roots and shoots increased significantly (P ≤ 0.05) with increasing levels of treatments. The biological concentration factor was more than one, and the transfer factor was close to one. Therefore, it can be used as a phytostablization plant. Also, with different levels of heavy metal treatments, the highest average height of total plants was related to lead, manganese, nickel and cadmium treatments with values of 167.54, 166.66, 165.85 and 163.88cm, respectively. The highest average root roots of plants were related to lead, manganese, nickel and cadmium treatments with values of 42.27, 42.36, 41.85 and 41.61 Cm, respectively. The highest average root roots of plants were related to the treatments of lead, manganese, nickel and cadmium with values of 125.28, 124.29, 124.02 and 121.68 Cm, respectively. Therefore, among all treatments, plants treated with cadmium had the lowest growth. The results showed that Vetiver can be considered as a refining plant due to its vegetative characteristics, cost-effectiveness and high adaptation to environmental conditions.
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abstract = {Today, human activities such as pesticides, fertilizers, industrial and nuclear wastes, and Nano pollutants, which contain heavy metals, affect the performance and flexibility of soil ecosystems, microorganisms, and plants. It also pollutes surface water, groundwater and the food chain. The aim of this study was to investigate the phytoremediation potential of heavy metals from soil by Vetiver and the effect of these metals on plant morphological changes in greenhouse conditions. Soil contamination with heavy metals has become a worldwide concern. This research was conducted as a factorial design with four different heavy metals (lead, cadmium, manganese and nickel) with three varying levels and also three replications for each treatment. The results of analysis of variance, Duncan test, showed that the effect of applied treatments on lead uptake in roots and shoots increased significantly (P ≤ 0.05) with increasing levels of treatments. The biological concentration factor was more than one, and the transfer factor was close to one. Therefore, it can be used as a phytostablization plant. Also, with different levels of heavy metal treatments, the highest average height of total plants was related to lead, manganese, nickel and cadmium treatments with values of 167.54, 166.66, 165.85 and 163.88cm, respectively. The highest average root roots of plants were related to lead, manganese, nickel and cadmium treatments with values of 42.27, 42.36, 41.85 and 41.61 Cm, respectively. The highest average root roots of plants were related to the treatments of lead, manganese, nickel and cadmium with values of 125.28, 124.29, 124.02 and 121.68 Cm, respectively. Therefore, among all treatments, plants treated with cadmium had the lowest growth. The results showed that Vetiver can be considered as a refining plant due to its vegetative characteristics, cost-effectiveness and high adaptation to environmental conditions.},
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