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Geoscience ›› 2021, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (03): 625-636.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2021.03.04

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Cadmium Bioavailability and Influencing Factors of Soil-rice System in Nanliujiang Catchment of Guangxi

SHAO Yuxiang1,2(), YANG Zhongfang1(), WANG Lei3, ZHUO Xiaoxiong3, ZHANG Qizuan3   

  1. 1. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083,China
    2. Geological Research Center of China Geological Survey,Chengdu,Sichuan 610036,China
    3. Guangxi Bureau of Geology and Mineral Prospecting and Exploitation,Nanning,Guangxi 530023,China
  • Received:2020-05-22 Revised:2020-06-20 Online:2021-06-23 Published:2021-06-24
  • Contact: YANG Zhongfang

Abstract:

The alluvium soil in the Nanliujiang Catchment had the characteristics with low Cd contents in soils but high Cd contents in the rice seeds grown in there. In order to understand the distribution and transfer of Cd in the soil-rice system of the Nanliujiang Catchment, We collected rice and soil samples from different parent material in this region and analyzed the rice Cd and soil Cd, pH, Corg, N, S, Mn and oxides. Meanwhile, seven-step sequential extraction experiments were performed on some of the soil samples to find the representative bioavailability of Cd in soil-rice system. The results showed that compared with different parent soils, the Cd contents of the soils in order for the limestone soils>the upstream alluvium soils>the midstream alluvium soils>the downstream alluvium soils>the clasolite-produced soils, which was contrary to the order of Cd contents in rice seeds grown in these areas, and no significant correlation was observed between Cd contents in rice seeds and in cultivated soils (r=-0.030,p=0.84). It was revealed that total soil Cd content cannot represent bioavailable Cd content absorbed by rice. Water-soluble Cd in the soil was thought to be the main species in Cd translocation from soil to seed, according to its significant correlations between them. With the increase of soil pH, CaO, Mn, and soil organic carbon (Corg), the proportion of water-soluble Cd decreased significantly(r=0.12-0.45). This information may be of great significance for proposing effective measures to reduce the Cd contents of rice in the Nanliujiang Catchment.

Key words: Nanliujiang Catchment, soil-rice system, cadmium, bioavailability

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