Assessment of zinc uptake by Melastoma malabathricum in soil contaminated with sewage sludge

• Main Authors: Patek Mohd, Nur Nazirah, Abdu, Arifin, Jusop, Shamshuddin, Abdul Hamid, Hazandy, Karim, Md. Rezaul, Abdul Malik, Mohammad Nazrin, Basri, Mohd Hadi Akbar, Jamaluddin, Aiza Shaliha
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2015
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77186/1/saes2015-43.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77186/

Heavy metal pollution to the soil environment has become a major source of concern and has posed serious health problems to humans and other ecological systems worldwide. Phytoremediation is a biological treatment where plants are used to remove pollutant from environment. An experiment was conducte...