@article{10272/21083,
year = {2022},
month = {6},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21083},
abstract = {Salicornia species are halophyte plants that are an important source for food, pharmacy, and
bioenergy. They can be consumed as a leafy vegetable, but they can accumulate heavy metals that
carry a health risk when knowledge of how each species behaves in different types of soil is lacking.
This present work aimed to determine to what extent S. ramosissima can be cultivated as food in
estuaries contaminated by heavy metals and to what extent it can be used in phytoremediation works,
by studying its behavior in populations that grow naturally in contaminated soils. We analyzed
accumulation and translocation in different parts of the plant for 14 heavy metals and calculated the
Health Risk Index value associated with their consumption as a leafy vegetable. The results obtained
mean that the S. ramosissima plants that grow in most of the soils of this estuary are unfit for human
consumption in some of the populations studied. In conclusion, Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods can
accumulate Cd, As, and Pb—among other metals—in its leaves so its consumption should be limited
to plants that grow in soils free of these metals},
organization = {This research was funded by Plan Propio de la Universidad de Huelva and Research Center
for Natural Resources, Health and the Environment (RENSMA). 
The authors wish to thank the institution and the staff of the Odiel Marshes
Natural Park},
publisher = {MDPI},
title = {The Bioconcentration and the Translocation of Heavy Metals in Recently Consumed Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods in Highly Contaminated Estuary Marshes and Its Food Risk},
doi = {10.3390/d14060452},
author = {San José Jiménez, Israel and Navarro Roldán, Francisco Juan and Montero, Yina and Ramírez Acosta, Sara and Jiménez Nieva, Francisco Javier and Infante Izquierdo, María Dolores and Polo Ávila, Alejandro and Muñoz Rodríguez, Adolfo Francisco},
}