Table 3.

Gardenroots bioconcentration factors and correlations between the arsenic observed in vegetable families and total arsenic in the soils.

Vegetable family	Bioconcentration factor	Correlation of arsenic in edible tissue with arsenic in soil
		r2 value
Asteraceae	0.0478	0.791c
Brassicaceae	0.0146	0.868c
Amaranthaceae	0.00982	0.857b
Curcurbitaceae	0.00483	NS
Liliaceae	0.00448	0.139a
Solanaceae	0.00391	NS
Fabaceae	0.00323	0.557b

NS: not significant.

^aSignificant at 5% level.

^bSignificant at 0.1% level.

^cSignificant at 0.01% level.