Abstract
The removal of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in soils at initial concentrations ranging from 20.00 to 321.05 mg·kg-1 was investigated under different planting patterns, and enhancement mechanisms were analyzed. Results showed that the dissipation of POPs in soils growing Brassica campestris and Medicago sativa significantly exceeded those vegetating single species. During 70-day experiment, about 75.06% of Pyr and 68.22% of BaP was removed from the soils under mixed cropping; while only 31.8% and 64.03% of Pyr and 27.84% and 51.93 of BaP were removed under single rape and alfalfa cropping, respectively. Of all pathways enforcing POPs removal, plant-microbial interactions is the most predominant. These results suggested a feasibility of the establishment of multi-species phytoremediation for improvement of the remediation efficiencies of POPs, which may decrease accumulations of POPs in crops and thus reduce their risks.
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