Environmental & Analytical Toxicology

Wisdom S Japhet

Publications

• Research Article
  Pb Uptake in Roadside Grown Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in the Sudan Savanna, Kano State
  Author(s): M’ember C Anongo, Sunday P Bako, Dora N Iortsuun and Wisdom S JaphetM’ember C Anongo, Sunday P Bako, Dora N Iortsuun and Wisdom S Japhet
  
  Cereal crops grown under irrigation in a semi-arid ecological habitat can be used to assess food quality and safety of agricultural systems at proximity to highways in the Sudan savannah of Northern Nigeria. This study focussed on the risk assessments of Pb transfer, translocation and uptake at selected growth stages (15-, 30-, 45-, 60-, 75- and 90-days representing seedling or germination, tillering, shooting/booting, earing, flowering and ripening stages respectively of two cultivars of Triticum aestivum L. The experimental (SU 1) and control (SU 2) sites were selected based on distances (345 m and 1936 m) from the Kano-Zaria Highway. Pb levels in soils and the two cultivars of Triticum aestivum L. was measured using the double-beam AAS and plant uptake factors (PUF), soil-plant transfer coefficients (TC) and translocation factors (TF) were worked out. Result revea.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-0525.1000470

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