ASSESSMENT OF POTENTIAL USES IN CADMIUM DEPOLLUTION BY HELIANTHUS ANNUUS

Abstract

Potentiality of heavy metal detoxification named as Phytoremediation, is attractive to the researcher‘s concerns. With the advantages such as: inexpensive fee, comfortable, and friendly to the environment, Phytoremediation is considered as one of next generation technologies. Among the plants which are useful to Phytoremediation, Helianthus annuus is known as an effective implement to―clean‖ the trace of heavy metals in both soil and groundwater. In this study, we analyzed and summarized the utilization of H. annuus to eliminate Cadmium and
thereby proposed the thresolds of Cadmium detoxification in H. annuus – based
Phytoremediation.
Keywords: Helianthus annuus, Phytoremediation, Cadmium, heavy metals contamination