Metal Distribution and Quantification in Plants Leaves by LA-ICPMS

Hyperaccumulator plants are complex family characterized by taking up high amounts of heavy metals in their roots, translocating them to the shoot to be finally accumulated in above-ground organs, especially leaves. One of their principal interests is due to the possibility of using this type of pla...

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Autor: García Fernández, Jenifer|||0000-0002-2878-8886
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI)
Repositorio:RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:digibuo.uniovi.es:10651/4237
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10651/4237
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Phytoremediation
Hyperaccumulator Plants
La-Icpms
External Calibration
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Sumario:Hyperaccumulator plants are complex family characterized by taking up high amounts of heavy metals in their roots, translocating them to the shoot to be finally accumulated in above-ground organs, especially leaves. One of their principal interests is due to the possibility of using this type of plants for phytoremediation of contaminated or natural metal-rich soils. A new approach to quantify locally metals by LA-ICP-MS technique in these plants is presented using external calibration with addition of yttrium as internal standard with SRM NIST of tomato pressed pellets. On the other hand, a study of the metal distribution in Arabidopsis halleri leaves is performed by the same technique and elemental mapping is compared for fresh and freeze-dried leaves, young and mature leaves as well as for thin sections.