“…Hence, the amide and amine groups of the proteins and the carboxyl and hydroxyl groups of the carbohydrates are apparently the main functional groups involved in the biosorption of Co 2+ by Lemna gibba. Similar results have been published for the removal of Co 2+ by different materials (Vilvanathan and Shanthakumar, 2015;Anirudhan et al, 2016;Vilvanathan and Shanthakumar, 2016;Pipíska et al, 2017). Various authors have reported the importance of the hydroxyl, amide, carboxyl and amine groups for the removal of diverse metals by the genus Lemna, including Hg 2+ , Cr 3+ , Cr 6+ , Cu 2+ (Rakhshaee et al, 2009), Pb 2+ (Tang et al, 2013), and Au 3+ (Saritha et al, 2014).…”