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Because of their fertility, productivity and extension, Rhodic Ferralsol are the most important agricultural soils in Cuba and receive, year after year, large quantities of fertilisers and pesticides. Nevertheless, there are no commonly accepted threshold values for heavy metals on this tropical soil type. In this report, different analytical procedures for the determination and evaluation of Cd, Ni, Pb, Zn and Cu concentrations on Rhodic Ferralsol were compared to the results of data obtained from the test crop Sorghum vulgaris grown with increasing quantities of these heavy metals. The results suggest that total and DTPA available concentrations of heavy metals are valuable parameters to judge upon the heavy metal pollution of Rhodic Ferralsol.
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Muñiz, O., Molina, J., Quicute, S., Estevez, J. (2001). Heavy metal pollution in a rhodic ferralsol of Cuba. In: Horst, W.J., et al. Plant Nutrition. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 92. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47624-X_484
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