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Heavy metal uptake by vegetable crop Lagenaria siceraria (bottle gourd)

P. Seshabala1 * , P. Chandrasekhar Reddy1 , Syeda Azeem Unnisa1 and K. Mukkanti1

1 Centre for Environment, IST, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kukatpally, 500 085 India

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.2.2.22

Pot experiments where conducted to study the uptake of heavy metals in vegetable crop by Lagenaria siceraria (bottle gourd), especially nickel and lead the most toxic elements from a human health point of view. The analysis results revealed that uptake of Ni and Pb by bottle gourd was above the prescribed concentration.


Vegetable Crop; Lagenaria Siceraria; Heavy Metal; Uptake

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Seshabala P, Reddy P.C, Unnisa S.A, Mukkanti K. Heavy metal uptake by vegetable crop Lagenaria siceraria (bottle gourd). Curr World Environ 2007;2(2):229-232 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.2.2.22

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Seshabala P, Reddy P.C, Unnisa S.A, Mukkanti K. Heavy metal uptake by vegetable crop Lagenaria siceraria (bottle gourd). Curr World Environ 2007;2(2):229-232. Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=697

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