Sulfur-modified tea-waste biochar improves rice growth in arsenic contaminated soil and reduces arsenic accumulation
Saurabh Kumar Pathak, Shraddha Singh, Vishnu D Rajput, Shengdao Shan, Sudhakar Srivastava · 2024
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Saurabh Pathak and co-authors test a charcoal soil aid for rice in arsenic-tainted soil, in a 2024 study. Arsenic is a toxic element that harms rice and builds up in its grain. The team made charcoal from tea waste and loaded it with sulfur in two ways, then grew rice in spiked soil.
Treated plants grew better shapes than plants in tainted soil alone. Defence enzymes in the plants also rose. Both sulfur versions cut arsenic in shoots compared with plain charcoal, by up to about a fifth to a quarter early on. The best version cut shoot arsenic by 30 percent at one month. Roots showed like drops, backing the soil aid as a low-cost fix.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Saurabh Kumar Pathak, Shraddha Singh, Vishnu D Rajput, Shengdao Shan, Sudhakar Srivastava |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |