Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2021, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (8): 1477-1488.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2021.08.15

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Accumulation ability and bioremediation potential of water dropwort on nine elements in livestock and poultry breeding wastewater

ZHAO Huijun1,2(), YAO Dongrui2,3, SUN Linhe2,3, CUI Jian2,3, CHANG Yajun2,3,*(), CAO Jianjun1,*()   

  1. 1. College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
    2. Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China
    3. Jiangsu Engineering Research Center of Aquatic Plant Resources and Water Environment Remediation, Nanjing 210014, China
  • Received:2020-12-21 Online:2021-08-25 Published:2021-08-27
  • Contact: CHANG Yajun,CAO Jianjun

Abstract:

To clarify the absorption and accumulation ability to elements in livestock and poultry breeding wastewater and the bioremediation potential of water dropwort, an in-situ experiment was performed with livestock and poultry breeding wastewater as a nutrient source to study the dynamic changes of 9 elements (C, N, P, K, Ca, Na, Mg, Fe, Zn), stoichiometric characteristics, accumulation of nitrogen and phosphorus, etc, in different organs of water dropwort at different growth stages. It was shown thatthe average mass fraction of C (542.46 g·kg -1), N (41.35 g·kg-1) and P (7.03 g·kg-1) of water dropwort were 1.5, 1.6 and 2.1 times of those of aquatic plants in inland waters of China, respectively. The total N and P accumulation of the water dropwort were 165.90 g·m-2 and 119.7 g·m-2, respectively, which was higher than that of water hyacinth.The highest mass fraction of K was found in the stem of water dropwort, while Ca, Na, Mg, Fe and Zn were enriched in the root. The mass fraction of N in leaves was higher than that in the root and stem, and the comprehensive accumulation index of nine elements in leaves was significantly(P<0.05) higher than that in root and stem.In water dropwort, the C∶N was 9.42-18.55, and the C∶P was 48.82-194.72, which were lower than the global average level. The correlation between N content and C∶N, P content and C∶P decreased with the growth of water dropwort. The N∶P of water dropwort was 3.59-10.56 (<14), indicating that the growth of water dropwort was still limited by N under the expeirment condition.The results informed that the water dropwort with strong accumulation capacity for N and P in livestock and poultry breeding wastewater is an ideal green plant for the restoration of heavily eutrophic water.

Key words: livestock and poultry breeding wastewater, nutrient elements, stoichiometric characteristics, accumulation of nitrogen, accumulation of phosphorus

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