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Sep 2026
Soil Indigenous Microbes Protect Maize Plants in Arsenic-Contaminated Soils
Arsenic (As) pollution of agricultural soils causes adverse effects on crop development and can increase As uptake by humans. We performed a greenhouse pot experiment with maize (Zea mays L.). Three soil treatments with varying microbial disturbance were designed: native soil, sterilized soil, and sterilized soil recon...
H. Guan, Veronica Caggìa, Andrea Gómez-Chamorro et al.
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