Variable Growth Responses of Radish, Turnip and Rocket Cultivars to Cadmium and Salinity Treatments

Abstract

Heavy metal contamination is one of the most serious environmental problems because of its toxicity, persistence, bioaccumulation and biomagnifications throughout the food chain (Keller et al., 2005, Sarwar et al., 2016), which threatens food safety and human health (WHO, 2011, Ehrampoush et al., 2015). Heavy metals are usually released by anthropogenic activities such as industrial and agricultural activities (Abou ElAnwar, 2019, Ali et al., 2019a). Amongst these metals, for example, lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) contamination have attracted lots of special due to their irreversible damages to plants, animals and humans even at low concentration (Bolan et al., 2014).