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Abstract
Cadmium (Cd) contamination in paddy soils poses a serious threat to agricultural production and human health. In this study, cysteine was selected as the leaching agent for remediating Cd-contaminated paddy soils because of its effective, low cost and ecofriendly characteristics. Microcosmic simulation experiment was using to investigate the fate of Cd and elucidate the transformation mechanism of Cd in the key components of paddy soil under cysteine leaching. Results showed that the total Cd removal rate of paddy soils reached 46.8–87.4% under the optimal conditions. This was mainly attributed to the decrease of exchangeable fraction (F1), carbonate bound fraction (F2), iron/manganese-bound fraction (F3) and organic matter bound fraction (F4) of Cd. After cysteine leaching, soil fertility was promoted due to the increase in nitrate nitrogen (NN), ammonia nitrogen (AN), available phosphorus (AP) and organic matter (OM). pH, CaCO3, available potassium (AK), NN, AP, amorphous iron oxides (Feo) were the main contributors to Cd fractionation transformation. The desorption of Cd from ferrihydrite (Fh) and goethite (Gt) surfaces is hypothesized to stem from dual mechanisms: the dissolution due to the low solution pH and the reducibility of cysteine, which facilitated the conversion of Fh and Gt to hematite (Hm). And the -SH complexation also ascribed to the activation of Cd bound by Fe-OH in Fh and Gt and oxygen-containing functional groups in humic acid (Ha). For chlorite (Ch), the primary driver for Cd desorption was identified as an ion-exchange process, whereby electrostatically adsorbed Cd2+ were replaced by H+ produced by cysteine protonation.
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