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Arsenic-prone rice cultivars: a study in endemic region

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Rice is prone to arsenic accumulation compared to other cereals as typically grown up under waterlogged situation favoring arsenic mobility. Arsenic in rice depends on arsenic availability to plants from irrigation water, even differs among cultivars and their plant parts. Present study was concentrated on arsenic accumulation in various plant parts of five common rice cultivars grown using irrigation water from different water sources in various fields in arsenic-endemic region. Additionally, dose response experiment under laboratory net house was conducted on the same cultivars excluding open environmental factors. The common cultivars were categorized according to high to low arsenic accumulator in rice grain, straw and root parts. The cultivar Shatabdi has shown highest arsenic accumulation in rice grain compared to other rice cultivars in fields and when grown at various soil arsenic doses. In field samples, a highest grain arsenic concentration ranged between 0.69 ± 0.04 and 0.78 ± 0.12 mg kg−1 for Shatabdi, whereas lowest grain arsenic concentration ranged between 0.37 ± 0.07 and 0.41 ± 0.07 mg kg−1 for the cultivars GB3 and Lalat. Speciation study detected more inorganic arsenic than organoarsenicals with a trend of arsenite > arsenate > DMA > MMA, which would be problem for consumers. The concluding remark is the characterization of common rice cultivars according to arsenic concentration to highlight an important remediation strand by changing to low arsenic cultivar.

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Abbreviations

STW:

Shallow tube well

DTW:

Deep tube well

IET:

Initial evaluation trial

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The authors highly acknowledge the farmers of the fields who helped during extensive field sampling.

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  1. Department of Environmental Science, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, 741235, West Bengal, India

    Anirban Biswas, Saroni Biswas & Subhas Chandra Santra

  2. Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Ecochemistry, Ghent University, Coupure Link, 9000, Ghent, Belgium

    Rama Venkata Srikanth Lavu

  3. Arsenic Research Laboratory, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Kalyani, 741235, West Bengal, India

    Prakash Chandra Gupta

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Biswas, A., Biswas, S., Lavu, R.V.S. et al. Arsenic-prone rice cultivars: a study in endemic region. Paddy Water Environ 12, 379–386 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10333-013-0392-0

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