“…Crop-specific bioconcentration factors (BCFs) for all distinguished crops including potatoes, sugar beets, other root crops; vegetables, barley, soft wheat, durum wheat, rye, oats, grain maize, rice, other cereals including triticale; sunflower, olives, oil crops (including rapeseed), citrus, grapes and other crops, were based on Lübben and Sauerbeck (1991); Versluijs and Otte (2001); Smolders et al, (2007) and Römkens et al (2008Römkens et al ( , 2009. In reality, the relationship between Cd concentrations in crop and soil depends on soil properties such as pH, clay content and organic matter contents (see e.g.…”