Reaction of Detoxification Mechanism in Suspension Cultured Spruce Cells (Picea abies L. KARST.) to Heavy Metals in Pure Mixture and in Soil Eluates

摘要

Intention, Goal, Background. The widespread and unconcerned use of chemicals in the past has led to an accumulation of pollutants in our environment. Numerous sites are polluted with a mixture of organic chemicals and heavy metals. The future use of these sites and the safe consumption of groundwater from these areas depends on our ability to assess risk by determining the bioavailability of trace levels of pollutants in the respective soil solutions. Soil eluates containing heavy metals in mixture as well as pure heavy metals in aqueous solution were added to a spruce cell culture to set up such a test system.