In recent decades, mosses have been used as native species or as transplants in monitoring a wide range of pollutants from inorganic (i.e. metals and metalloids) to organic contaminants (mainly polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons-PAHs). To implement the use of mosses as biomonitors of PAHs, one important issue is the study of the interactions between these compounds and moss tissues. In this study we investigated the mode of phenanthrene uptake in four moss species (Amblystegium humile, Plagiomnium affine, Hypnum cupressiforme and a clone of Sphagnum palustre) and its movements from air to plant surface and within the biomonitors, using fluorescent and confocal microscopy. The target compound, partitioned between gas and particulate phase depending on air conditions, was selected since it is one of the most abundant PAHs released into the atmosphere. Our findings support the hypothesis that phenanthrene aggregates in particles and in this form it is chiefly intercepted and uptaken onto moss surfaces, albeit with different frequency in the four species, with S. palustre > H. cupressiforme > P. affine = A. humile. Phenanthrene enters the dead, empty hyalocysts of S. palustre. Specific surface area and composition, frequency and distribution of binding groups may also explain the different ability of phenanthrene uptake by the four moss species.

Tracking the route of phenanthrene uptake in mosses: An experimental trial / Spagnuolo, V.; Figlioli, Francesca; De Nicola, F.; Capozzi, F.; Giordano, S.. - In: SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. - ISSN 0048-9697. - 575:(2017), pp. 1066-1073. [10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.09.174]

Tracking the route of phenanthrene uptake in mosses: An experimental trial

Spagnuolo, V.
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FIGLIOLI, FRANCESCA;De Nicola, F.;Capozzi, F.;Giordano, S.
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2017

Abstract

In recent decades, mosses have been used as native species or as transplants in monitoring a wide range of pollutants from inorganic (i.e. metals and metalloids) to organic contaminants (mainly polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons-PAHs). To implement the use of mosses as biomonitors of PAHs, one important issue is the study of the interactions between these compounds and moss tissues. In this study we investigated the mode of phenanthrene uptake in four moss species (Amblystegium humile, Plagiomnium affine, Hypnum cupressiforme and a clone of Sphagnum palustre) and its movements from air to plant surface and within the biomonitors, using fluorescent and confocal microscopy. The target compound, partitioned between gas and particulate phase depending on air conditions, was selected since it is one of the most abundant PAHs released into the atmosphere. Our findings support the hypothesis that phenanthrene aggregates in particles and in this form it is chiefly intercepted and uptaken onto moss surfaces, albeit with different frequency in the four species, with S. palustre > H. cupressiforme > P. affine = A. humile. Phenanthrene enters the dead, empty hyalocysts of S. palustre. Specific surface area and composition, frequency and distribution of binding groups may also explain the different ability of phenanthrene uptake by the four moss species.
2017
Tracking the route of phenanthrene uptake in mosses: An experimental trial / Spagnuolo, V.; Figlioli, Francesca; De Nicola, F.; Capozzi, F.; Giordano, S.. - In: SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. - ISSN 0048-9697. - 575:(2017), pp. 1066-1073. [10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.09.174]
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