naa a22 4500 510751903 CHVBK 20180411083107.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11270-013-1546-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11270-013-1546-9 Potential Risk of Arsenic and Antimony Accumulation by Medicinal Plants Naturally Growing on Old Mining Sites [Elektronische Daten] [Marek Vaculík, Ľubomír Jurkovič, Peter Matejkovič, Marianna Molnárová, Alexander Lux] It was found that some of the medicinal plants accumulate increased amounts of toxic elements like Cd or Pb. Less is known about the accumulation of other hazardous elements like arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb) in these species. The present paper investigated selected medicinal plants naturally growing on old mining sites in Slovakia, Central Europe, contaminated by As and Sb. Both these elements are nonessential for plants and, in higher level, might be phytotoxic. The soil concentration of As and Sb at three different localities extensively used for mining of Sb ores in former times highly exceed values characteristic for noncontaminated substrates and ranged between 146 and 540mgkg−1 for As and 525 and 4,463mgkg−1 for Sb. Extraction experiments of soils show differences between As and Sb leaching, as the highest amount of mobile As was released in acetic acid while Sb was predominantly released in distilled water. In total, seven different plant species were investigated (Fragaria vesca, Taraxacum officinale, Tussilago farfara, Plantago major, Veronica officinalis, Plantago media, and Primula elatior), and the concentration of investigated elements in shoot ranged between 1 and 519mgkg−1 for As and 10 and 920mgkg−1 for Sb. Differences in the bioaccumulation of As and Sb as well as in the translocation of these elements from root to shoot within the same species growing on different localities have been found. This indicate that efficiency of As and Sb uptake might vary between individual plants of the same species on different sites. Increased bioaccumulation of As and Sb in biomass of investigated plants might be dangerous for human when used for traditional medicinal purposes. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Antimony (Sb) nationallicence Arsenic (As) nationallicence Bioavailability nationallicence Health risk nationallicence Medicinal plants nationallicence Soil extractions nationallicence Vaculík Marek Department of Plant Physiology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina B2, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia aut Jurkovič Ľubomír Department of Geochemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina B2, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia aut Matejkovič Peter Department of Geochemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina B2, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia aut Molnárová Marianna Department of Ecosozology and Physiotactics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina B2, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia aut Lux Alexander Department of Plant Physiology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina B2, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia aut Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Springer Netherlands 224/5(2013-05-01), 1-16 0049-6979 224:5<1 2013 224 11270 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1546-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1546-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vaculík Marek Department of Plant Physiology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina B2, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jurkovič Ľubomír Department of Geochemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina B2, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Matejkovič Peter Department of Geochemistry, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina B2, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Molnárová Marianna Department of Ecosozology and Physiotactics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina B2, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lux Alexander Department of Plant Physiology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska dolina B2, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Springer Netherlands 224/5(2013-05-01), 1-16 0049-6979 224:5<1 2013 224 11270 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer