What is it about?
Coffee fields have been contaminated by copper. Organic amendments in soils affect solubility of copper in soils but not the uptake. The levels of copper in bean leaves were higher than the copper levels in bean seeds
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Why is it important?
We found that bean seeds are protected from accumulating elevated quantities of potentially toxic element like copper
Perspectives
This article has shown that bean plants grown on copper contaminated soils may not pose health risks
Yasin Senkondo
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This page is a summary of: Influence of farm yard manure, poultry manure and forest litter on copper solubility in soil and uptake byPhaseolus vulgaris, Soil Use and Management, November 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/sum.12154.
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