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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Plant Sci.
Sec. Technical Advances in Plant Science
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1557261
This article is part of the Research TopicEmerging Sustainable and Green Technologies for Improving Agricultural ProductionView all 21 articles
Regulated the electrokinetic application of different plant growth stages and parameters enhance the economic extraction of soil heavy metals
Provisionally accepted- Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China
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Electrokinetic-assisted phytoremediation (EKAPR) improved the heavy metal accumulation has been extensively covered, but the uneconomic of heavy metal extraction increment unit energy consumption (EHME) limits its development. The feasibility from the dual perspectives of regulated the electrokinetics application of different growth stages of Sedum plumbizincicola and electrochemical parameters affecting power consumption to enhance the EHME of EKAPR system were investigated. Results shown that electrokinetic promoted heavy metals accumulation of S. plumbizincicola significantly, and it not show positive correlation absolutely with the application time. EK-B treatment exhibited high performance for Cu and Pb. Although the Cd and Zn extraction decreased 9.02%-15.63% for EK-B and EK-S compare with EK-W treatment due to difference in biomass, there was insignificant in the content. Comprehensive consideration of growth and accumulate characteristics, electrokinetic application in the booming stage (0.70 of PCA score) was alternative to replace whole growth period treatment. Orthogonal experiments results showed that four factors were insignificant with biomass, heavy metal content and extraction, while voltage gradients and application time had significant effect. The biomass and heavy metal extraction showed appropriate promoted effect in 1.5-2.5 V/cm, 100-150 h, whereas EHME continuous deceased and the decline rate relatively slow within 1.0V/cm, 100h. The result indicates the existence of optimization strategy, the best recommended strategy was T7 treatment, followed by T3, T8 and T12 treatments. Overall, it is an acceptable option to study energy saving in terms of optimization of plant growth stage and electric field parameters, and provides novel perspectives for broadening the practical application.
Keywords: Farmland contaminated soil, Electrokinetic-assisted phytoremediation, Strategy Optimization, economic extraction, heavy metal
Received: 08 Jan 2025; Accepted: 10 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Ma, Zhao, Yang, Feng, Wang, Jiang, Jiang, Guo and Li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Jianfang Guo, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China
Tianguo Li, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China
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