Fitorremediação de cádmio por Khaya ivorensis A. Chev. modulações ecofisiológicas e bioquímicas.

Abstract

Contamination of the soil by cadmium represents an agricultural hazard, for food production, and for environmental issues around the world. In the face of the problems caused by this and other metals it is necessary to remove or stabilize the same of the soil, so that there is no contamination of the ecosystems. One of the options for recovering the activity and the diversity of these environments is phytoremediation. The objective of this work was to evaluate the growth responses, physiological and biochemical characteristics of plants of Khaya ivorensis A. Chev. submitted to different doses of CdCl2. The experiment was conducted at the Federal Rural University of Amazonia (UFRA), in Belém of Pará, from December 2015 to April 2016. A completely randomized experimental design was used with 5 treatments (control, 10 CdCl2 mg/L-1, 20 CdCl2 mg/L-1, 30 CdCl2 mg/L-1, 40 CdCl2 mg/L-1 ) and 7 repetitions. With increasing doses of the metal, the plants Khaya ivorensis A. Chev., Presented as a response a decline in the biometric, physiological and biochemical parameters, but did not cause the death of the plants. The treatment with the dose of 10 CdCl2 mg / L-1 obtained the highest values for both the translocation factor and the bioaccumulation factor, none of the treatments presented a critical level of toxicity. The Khaya ivorensis A. Chev species proved to be an excellent alternative for the phytoremediation method in areas contaminated with cadmium.