Legumes can increase cadmium contamination in neighboring crops.

Legumes are widely used in many cropping systems because they share their nitrogen fixation products and phosphorus mobilization activities with their neighbors. In the current study, however, we showed that co-cultivation with legumes increased cadmium (Cd) contamination in the adjacent crops. Both...

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Main Authors: Ling Liu, Qian Zhang, Liangliang Hu, Jianjun Tang, Ligen Xu, Xiantian Yang, Jean W H Yong, Xin Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22905189/?tool=EBI