RT Journal Article
T1 The Bioconcentration and the Translocation of Heavy Metals in Recently Consumed Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods in Highly Contaminated Estuary Marshes and Its Food Risk
A1 San José Jiménez, Israel
A1 Navarro Roldán, Francisco Juan
A1 Montero, Yina
A1 Ramírez Acosta, Sara
A1 Jiménez Nieva, Francisco Javier
A1 Infante Izquierdo, María Dolores
A1 Polo Ávila, Alejandro
A1 Muñoz Rodríguez, Adolfo Francisco
AB Salicornia species are halophyte plants that are an important source for food, pharmacy, andbioenergy. They can be consumed as a leafy vegetable, but they can accumulate heavy metals thatcarry 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 inestuaries 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 analyzedaccumulation and translocation in different parts of the plant for 14 heavy metals and calculated theHealth Risk Index value associated with their consumption as a leafy vegetable. The results obtainedmean that the S. ramosissima plants that grow in most of the soils of this estuary are unfit for humanconsumption in some of the populations studied. In conclusion, Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods canaccumulate Cd, As, and Pb—among other metals—in its leaves so its consumption should be limitedto plants that grow in soils free of these metals
PB MDPI
SN 1424-2818 (electrónico)
YR 2022
FD 2022-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21083
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21083
LA eng
NO Sanjosé, I., Navarro-Roldán, F., Montero, Y., Ramírez-Acosta, S., Jiménez-Nieva, F. J., Infante-Izquierdo, M. D., Polo-Ávila, A., & Muñoz-Rodríguez, A. F. (2022). The Bioconcentration and the Translocation of Heavy Metals in Recently Consumed Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods in Highly Contaminated Estuary Marshes and Its Food Risk. In Diversity (Vol. 14, Issue 6, p. 452). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14060452
NO This research was funded by Plan Propio de la Universidad de Huelva and Research Centerfor Natural Resources, Health and the Environment (RENSMA). The authors wish to thank the institution and the staff of the Odiel MarshesNatural Park
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026