Lead accumulation by jabon seedling (Anthocephalus cadamba) on tailing media with application of compost and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Growth, histochemical and physiological responses of non-edible oil producing plant (Reutealis trisperma) to gold mine tailings

“…The decrease of root and shoot dry weight was 59.6% and 45% respectively, root length was 41.7%, and leaf area was 28%, while plant height was only 19.6%. The decrease of growth in 100% of tailing treatment may associate to the characteristics of gold mine tailing that has lower organic compounds and other major nutrient elements such as N, P and K, which are required to support plant growth (Setyaningsih et al 2017). For the plants treated with 100% of tailings, the source of macronutrient compounds was obtained only from the compost (0.5 kg) provided at the beginning of the treatment to support the growth for 90 days, while the other treatments the plants also got support from the media (mixed soil and compost).…”

“…The operation of industrial and small-scale mining disrupted soil horizons and structure, soil microbe populations, and nutrient cycles (Kundu and Ghose 1997). In addition, mining activities usually produces a large amounts of waste (tailings) contains fine rocks, sand, and dust, with very low organic matter, and in many cases especially for gold mining it also contains heavy metal components (Mensah et al 2015) such as As, Cd, Ni, Pb, Cu, Zn, Co and Hg (Hidayati et al 2009;Fashola et al 2016;Setyaningsih et al 2017). Mining wastes can cover large areas of mine land, which reduce soil productivity (Mensah et al 2015).…”

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and Rhizobium enhance the growth of Samanea saman (trembesi) planted on gold-mine tailings in Pongkor, West Java, Indonesia

“…Indigenous AMF strains tend to be more adaptive than foreign strains (Pierre et al, 2014). The compatibility of AMF types of Glomus manihotis and Glomus etunicatum inoculum have also been reported to be developed with jabon (Anthocephalus cadamba) seedlings on tailings media in polybags (Setyaningsih et al, 2017), as well as with Typha angustifolia (Setyaningsih et al, 2018a). Nodule number/plant 24.0 a 20.0 a 52.0 b 22.0 a Note: Numbers followed by the different letters in the same line show significant differences based on the DMRT test with an error rate of 5% The 95% of survival rate of S. saman was greater than that was reported for other local plant species in West Kalimantan, such as Hevea brasiliensis, Archidendron pauciflorum, Shorea leprosula and Vitex pinnata (Ekyastuti et al, 2016;Jusran 2016).…”

“…In mining activities, management of tailings is mostly carried out by submarine disposal (SMD) by placing it in tailings storage facility (TSF) which is a general method aimed to hold tailings to remain on land (ANTAM 2018). Generally, mine tailings are considered to have a negative value due to the lower organic matter content, mineral nutrients, cation exchange capacity (CEC), and microorganism activity (Wasis et al 2011), while they have higher heavy metals concentration (Setyaningsih et al 2017). For example, Hidayati et al (2006) and Hilmi et al (2018) found that lead (Pb) contamination in gold mine tailings was 6-20 times greater than land without tailings.…”

Cellular and Ultrastructure Alteration of Plant Roots in Response to Metal Stress

“…Human activities have influenced the dispersion of metal elements including heavy metals such as Pb, Cd, Ag, Hg, and Cr due to several activities including traditional and mining activities, and intensive agricultural practices such as pesticide and fungicide applications have increased the contamination of metal elements [17][18][19]. Therefore, heavy metals, especially, have been addressed as critical substances concerning human health and environmental issues due to their high occurrence as contaminants, low solubility in biota, and some heavy metals also have been classified as having carcinogenic and mutagenic effects [20,21].…”