Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals from Hordeum vulgare: Potentially Promising & Clean Up Technology

Five partially tolerant and five non tolerant accessions of barley for cadmium and hexavalent chromiumwere analyzed for the assessment of heavy metal in the plant. This study was designed toassess total contents of Cd and Cr⁶⁺ in the plant root and leaves. The accumulation of metals from roots to shoots was evaluated in terms of Translocation Factor (TF). Total metal concentrations of Cd and Cr⁶⁺inroot and leaves varied between29.84–0.35 μg/g⁻¹.