Original Research Article I Volume 5 I Issue 1 I 2017

In vitro bioaccumulation metabolic studies of heavy metals by water lettuce Pistia stratiotes Engl. (Araceae)

M. N. Abubacker; C. Sathya

Biolife; 2017, 5(1), pp 1-6

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7351081

Abstract:

In vitro experiments on bioaccumulation of heavy metals, chromium, copper, lead and zinc was conducted using water lettuce Pistia stratiotes Engl. (Araceae) with 5, 10 and 20 mg/ 100 ml concentration for each metals for a period of 20 days. The Scanning Electron Microscopy equipped with Energy Dispersive X-ray (SEM-EDX) results revealed the bioaccumulation of lead as high as 37.79% followed by chromium 8.63%, zinc 6.00% and copper 2.37%. There was a change in the pH of the medium, the bioaccumulation of metals were confirmed by FTIR analysis and a unique metabolic studies of heavy metal sorption have been predicted by GC-MS analysis.

Keywords:

Bioaccumulation, FT-IR, GC-MS, Heavy metals, Pistia stratiotes Engl., SEM-EDX

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Article Dates:

Received: 2 January 2017; Accepted: 18 February 2017; Published: 1 March 2017

How To Cite:

M. N. Abubacker, & C. Sathya. (2022). In vitro bioaccumulation metabolic studies of heavy metals by water lettuce Pistia stratiotes Engl. (Araceae). Biolife, 5(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7351081

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