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Mallhi AI, Chatha SAS, Hussain AI, et al. Citric Acid Assisted Phytoremediation of Chromium through Sunflower Plants Irrigated with Tannery Wastewater. Plants (Basel). 2020;9(3)doi: 10.3390/plants9030380.
Mallhi, A. I., Chatha, S. A. S., Hussain, A. I., Rizwan, M., Bukhar, S. A. H., Hussain, A., Mallhi, Z. I., Ali, S., Hashem, A., Abd Allah, E. F., Alyemeni, M. N., & Ahmad, P. (2020). Citric Acid Assisted Phytoremediation of Chromium through Sunflower Plants Irrigated with Tannery Wastewater. Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 9(3), . https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9030380
Mallhi, Ali Imran, et al. "Citric Acid Assisted Phytoremediation of Chromium through Sunflower Plants Irrigated with Tannery Wastewater." Plants (Basel, Switzerland) vol. 9,3 (2020). doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9030380
Mallhi AI, Chatha SAS, Hussain AI, Rizwan M, Bukhar SAH, Hussain A, Mallhi ZI, Ali S, Hashem A, Abd Allah EF, Alyemeni MN, Ahmad P. Citric Acid Assisted Phytoremediation of Chromium through Sunflower Plants Irrigated with Tannery Wastewater. Plants (Basel). 2020 Mar 19;9(3). doi: 10.3390/plants9030380. PMID: 32204568; PMCID: PMC7154846.
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Plants (Basel). 2020 Mar 19;9(3). doi: 10.3390/plants9030380.

Citric Acid Assisted Phytoremediation of Chromium through Sunflower Plants Irrigated with Tannery Wastewater.

Plants (Basel, Switzerland)

Ali Imran Mallhi, Shahzad Ali Shahid Chatha, Abdullah Ijaz Hussain, Muhammad Rizwan, Syed Asad Hussain Bukhar, Afzal Hussain, Zahid Imran Mallhi, Shafaqat Ali, Abeer Hashem, Elsayed Fathi Abd Allah, Mohammed Nasser Alyemeni, Parvaiz Ahmad

Affiliations

  1. Department of Applied Chemistry, Government College University Faisalabad-38000, Pakistan.
  2. Department of Chemistry, Government College University Faisalabad-38000, Pakistan.
  3. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Government College University Faisalabad-38000, Pakistan.
  4. Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 60800, Pakistan.
  5. Department of Environmental Sciences, The University of Lahore, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
  6. Department of Biological Sciences and Technology, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan.
  7. Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box. 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
  8. Mycology and Plant Disease Survey Department, Plant Pathology Research Institute, ARC, Giza 12511, Egypt.
  9. Plant Production Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box. 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
  10. Department of Botany, S.P. College, Srinagar 190001-, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

PMID: 32204568 PMCID: PMC7154846 DOI: 10.3390/plants9030380

Abstract

Heavy metals are rapidly polluting the environment as a result of growing industrialization and urbanization. The presence of high concentrations of chromium (Cr), along with other pollutants, is widespread in tannery wastewater. In Pakistan, as a result of a severe shortage of irrigation water, farmers use tannery wastewater to grow various crops with a consequent decline in plants' yield. This experiment was performed to assess growth revival in sunflower plants irrigated with 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% tannery wastewater, by foliar application of 0, 2.5, and 5.0 mM citric acid (CA). The wastewater treatment curtailed biomass accumulation, the growth rate, and chlorophyll contents by exacerbating the oxidative stress in sunflowers. Foliar application of CA considerably alleviated the outcomes of Cr toxicity by curbing the Cr absorption and oxidative damage, leading to improvements in plant growth, biological yield, and chlorophyll contents. It is concluded that foliar application of CA can successfully mitigate the Cr toxicity in sunflower plants irrigated with tannery wastewater.

Keywords: biomass; chlorophyll contents; chromium; sunflower; wastewater

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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