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    Absorción de CD por Brachiaria Brizantha y Chloris Gayana en tres suelos con diferentes propiedades químicas, físicas y mineralógicas.
    (2011) Giuliani-Castillo, Isabelle; de la Torre, Winston; College of Agricultural Sciences; Román, Félix; Muñoz, Miguel A.; Department of Crops and Agro-Environmental Sciences; Harmsen, Dr.Erick
    Phytoremediation is an ecologically friendly, cost effective technique that uses plants to remediate contaminated soil and water. One of the objectives in this study is to evaluate the absorption of cadmium (Cd) by two forage species Brachiaria brizantha and Chloris gayana on three soil series with different chemical, physical and mineralogical properties. The soil series that were evaluated were: San Antón, Coloso and Corozal. On a complete random design with a factorial arrange 2 x 3 x 4 forty-eight plants for each forage species were transplanted in a pots with different concentrations of Cd: control, 10 ppm, 50 ppm and 500 ppm. This experiment was conducted on a seven week period. The parameters studied were plant height, and the number of the leaves. On two different occasions during the experiment, the soils were fertilized and each pot was maintained at the field capacity. Chemical analysis of shoots and roots were performed to determine the total absorption of the metal showing that on roots have significant differences. Showing that Choris gayana at Coloso soil with 500ppm of Cd absorbs 1ppm on the roots. And on the shoots did not have significant differences in the treatments. On plants height and the number of leaves, there were no significant differences. Soil analyses were also done including a sequential extraction to determine the Cd content also showed significant differences in the soil series, indicating that Corozal soil series had more Cd in the soil.