The DOI matches its Crossref record; 98 of the 98 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Chemical Speciation, Plant Uptake, and Toxicity of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils
Abstract
Heavy metals in agricultural soils exist in diverse dissolved (free cations and complexed species of positive, neutral, or negative charges), particulate (sorbed, structural, and coprecipitated), and colloidal (micro- and nanometer-sized particles) species. The fate of different heavy metal species is controlled by the master variables: pH (solubility), ionic strength (activity and charge-shielding), and dissolved organic carbon (complexation). In the rhizosphere, chemical speciation controls toxicokinetics (uptake and transport of metals by plants) while toxicodynamics (interaction between the plant and absorbed species) drives the toxicity outcome. Based on the critical review, the authors recommend omics and data mining techniques to link discrete knowledge bases from the speciation dynamics, soil microbiome, and plant transporter/gene expression relevant to homeostasis conditions of modern agriculture. Such efforts could offer a disruptive application tool to improve and sustain plant tolerance, food safety, and environmental quality.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Commentary: The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation
Jain, A., Ong, S. P., Hautier, G., Chen, W., Richards, W. D., Dacek, S., Cholia, S., Gunter, D., Skinner, D., Ceder, G., et al. (2013) · APL Materials · doi:10.1063/1.4812323 · Cited by 13,094
The Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants.
Martin, M. H., & Marschner, H. (1988) · The Journal of Ecology · doi:10.2307/2260650 · Cited by 5,489
Iron oxides in the laboratory: preparation and characterization
(1992) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.29-2718 · Cited by 2,259
Toxic metal accumulation, responses to exposure and mechanisms of tolerance in plants
Clemens, S. (2006) · Biochimie · doi:10.1016/j.biochi.2006.07.003 · Cited by 2,021
Toxicity of heavy metals to microorganisms and microbial processes in agricultural soils: a review
Giller, K. E., Witter, E., & Mcgrath, S. P. (1998) · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · doi:10.1016/s0038-0717(97)00270-8 · Cited by 1,982
Heavy metals in food crops: health risks, fate, mechanisms, and management
Rai, P. K., Lee, S. S., Zhang, M., Tsang, Y. F., & Kim, K.-H. (2019) · Environment International · doi:10.1016/j.envint.2019.01.067 · Cited by 1,895
Banfield, J. F., Welch, S. A., Zhang, H., Ebert, T. T., & Penn, R. L. (2000) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.289.5480.751 · Cited by 1,751
Rae, T. D., Schmidt, P. J., Pufahl, R. A., Culotta, V. C., & V. O'Halloran, T. (1999) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.284.5415.805 · Cited by 1,629
The IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology: The Gold Book
(2025) · International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) eBooks · doi:10.1351/goldbook · Cited by 1,382
Iron Uptake, Translocation, and Regulation in Higher Plants
Kobayashi, T., & Nishizawa, N. K. (2012) · Annual Review of Plant Biology · doi:10.1146/annurev-arplant-042811-105522 · Cited by 1,330
Cited by
Angon, P. B., Islam, M. S., KC, S., Das, A., Anjum, N., Poudel, A., & Suchi, S. A. (2024) · Heliyon · doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e28357 · Cited by 911
RetractedMicrobial mediated remediation of heavy metals toxicity: mechanisms and future prospects
Tang, H., Xiang, G., Xiao, W., Yang, Z., & Zhao, B. (2024) · Frontiers in Plant Science · doi:10.3389/fpls.2024.1420408 · Cited by 178
Metadata
- Authors
- Uchimiya, M., Bannon, D., Nakanishi, H., McBride, M. B., Williams, M. A., & Yoshihara, T.
- Venue
- Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2020-03-10
- Volume
- 68
- Issue
- 46
- Pages
- 12856-12869
- ISSN
- 0021-8561 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5118
- OpenAlex
- W3011020466
- Cited by
- 267
- References
- 98
- FWCI
- 5.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Chemical Speciation, Plant Uptake, and Toxicity of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1021/acs.jafc.0c00183
- The paper
- Uchimiya, M., Bannon, D., Nakanishi, H., McBride, M. B., Williams, M. A., & Yoshihara, T. (2020). Chemical Speciation, Plant Uptake, and Toxicity of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.0c00183
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
