Ling Xiao

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of paddy conversion to vegetable field on organic carbon and soil structure, and found that the organic carbon content associated with water-stable macro-aggregates was higher than that with micro-aggregate (12.2-16.4 vs. 12.0-12.4 ).

TL;DR: Redundancy analysis indicated that soil catalase activity, the MBC/MBN ratio, along with bioavailable Cd, Cr and Ni could explain 68.9% of the total eigenvalue, indicating that these parameters have a great impact on the heavy metal accumulation in rice grain.

TL;DR: The results showed that long-term irrigation using the electroplating effluent has not only enriched the rhizospheric soil with Cd, Cr, Cu, and Zn but has also increased their mobility and bioavailability.

TL;DR: The distribution of heavy metals and their potential availability in paddy and vegetable fields around electroplating factory outlets and irrigated with its wastewater was investigated, suggesting that sampling distance was the major parameter that affected gradient variations of both total and potential availability of soil heavy metals.

TL;DR: Results suggested that heavy metal bioavailability played a mediating role in the influencing pathways of soil microbial attributes on heavy metals in brassica leaves.