Optimization of Extraction of Toxic Metals from Medicinal Plants,Malva sylvestris L., andPistacia lentiscus

Health risk assessment of the concentration of heavy metals in Pistacia species: a global systematic review

“…Cr level was measured using ICP-SFMS, Q-ICP-MS, ICP-OES, ICP-MS, FAAS, ETAAS, AAS and ICP-AES techniques. The lowest and highest concentrations of Cr were observed in P. vera -Sweden (15 Â 10 À6 mg/kg) and P. lentiscus in Algeria (25.39 mg/kg), respectively) Table 1) (Rodushkin et al, 2008;Terfi and Sadi, 2015).…”

“…Cd levels were recorded using AAS, WDXRF, ETAAS, FAAS, ICP-AES, GF-AAS, ICP, ICP-MS, ICP OES, ICP-SFMS and Q-ICP-MS techniques. The lowest Cd was in the species P. vera in Sweden (47 Â 10 À7 mg/kg), and the highest Cd was observed in the species in Algeria (4.77 mg/kg) (Terfi and Sadi, 2015;Rodushkin et al, 2008). According to Commission Regulation (EC), No.…”

Variability in Chemical Composition and Biochemical Activities ofMentha x piperitaL. Essential Oil, in Response to Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Heavy Metal Stress

“…At the end of incubation, the number of mobile nauplii (alive) was counted by using a magnifying glass to determine the 50 % lethal concentration after 24 h of incubation (24h-LC50), efficient concentration of essential oil that is required to kills 50 % of a test animals. The 24h-LC50 were calculated as Mercury (Hg) (mg kg À 1 ) nd 0.001-0.04 *: soil sample was air-dried and sieved to < 2 mm for physico-chemical properties, including pH (1/2.5; soil/distilled water, after 1 h stirring), electrical conductivity (1/5 soil/distilled water, after 1 h stirring), particle size distribution [92] , total nitrogen (Kjeldahl procedure), total phosphorus [93] , Organic matter (OM) by loss on ignition at 550 °C for 8 h, and total organic carbon by dividing the OM content by a factor of 1.724 [94] ; **: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-1964); ***: C/N ratio < 12 ) fast mineralization ) more nutrients available to plant;****: The total Na, K, Ca, Mg, Zn, Cu, Fe, Al, Mn, Pb, Cr, Ni, As, Co and Cd contents were determined by flame atomic absorption spectrometry after digestion of the sample soil according to Terfi and Sadi [95] . Hg content was determined by Mercury Analyzer (Nippon Instruments Corporation/Japan) according to Terfi et al [96] .…”

Malva: Food, Medicine and Chemistry

“…Several methods were used to determine the metal content and one of the best, yet simplest was reported by S. Terfi and his colleagues. 264 Related to that, some studies were conducted to test the capacity of Malva species to accumulate heavy/toxic metals from contaminated soil or aqueous solutions. We present the results of these publications in Table 10.…”

“…263 This study reports three methods of extracting toxic metals from the plant leaves, finding that dry ashing method using 4:1 HNO3:HCl was most efficient. 264 Dried flowers were sieved in different meshes and used as green biosorbent of Pb(II) from aqueous solution. Maximum biosorption capacity was 25.64 mg/g.…”