The Bioaccumulation of Some Heavy Metals in the Fruiting Body of Wild Growing Mushrooms
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15835/nbha3824736Abstract
Due to their effective mechanism of accumulation of heavy metals from soil, the macrofungi show high concentrations of metals in their fruiting body. According with this ability, the mushrooms can be used to evaluate and control the level of environmental pollution, but also represent danger for human ingestion. We analyzed some macrofungi species from a wooded area to establish the heavy metal concentrations and ability of bioaccumulation and translocation for Zn, Cu and Sn in fruiting body. The metallic content was established by the Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometry method (ICP-AES). The minimal detection limits of method is 0.4 mg/kg for Zn and Cu and 0.6 mg/kg for Sn. Heavy metals concentrations in the fruiting body ranged between 6.98-20.10 mg/kg for Zn (the higher value was for Tapinella atrotomentosa); 16.13-144.94 mg/kg for Cu (the higher value was for Hypholoma fasciculare); and 24.36-150.85 mg/kg for Sn (the higher value was for Paxillus involutus). The bioaccumulation factor has important values (higher than 1) only for copper in all the analyzed species (between 1.30 and 8.86) and for tin in Paxillus involutus species (1.19). The translocation factor shows that zinc and tin were accumulated in higher concentrations in cap of mushrooms and the copper had higher concentrations in stipe.Downloads
Additional Files
Published
2010-09-24
How to Cite
ELEKES, C. C., BUSUIOC, G., & IONITA, G. (2010). The Bioaccumulation of Some Heavy Metals in the Fruiting Body of Wild Growing Mushrooms. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 38(2), 147–151. https://doi.org/10.15835/nbha3824736
Issue
Section
Research Articles
CITATION
DOI: 10.15835/nbha3824736
License
Copyright (c) 2010 Carmen Cristina ELEKES, Gabriela BUSUIOC, Gheorghe IONITA
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
License:
© Articles by the authors; licensee UASVM and SHST, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Papers published in the journal Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca are open access distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses).
Open Access Journal:
The journal allows the author(s) to retain publishing rights without restriction. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.