Table 3. Dry Biomass (g plant−1) of Pak choi Shoots Grown on Seven Chinese Soils with Different Loading Rates of Cd.
Cd conc. (mg kg−1) | Mollisols | Ustic Cambosols | Stagnic Anthrosols | Periudic Argosols | Typic Haplustalfs | Udic Ferrisols | Calcaric Regosols |
Ck | 1.95±0.18a | 1.54±0.13a | 1.13±0.31a | 0.84±0.29a | 0.73±0.20a | 0.95±0.11a | 2.07±0.46a |
1 | 1.91±0.37a | 1.66±0.59a | 1.10±0.30a | 0.63±0.35ab | - | - | - |
2 | 2.22±0.58a | 1.02±0.49a | 1.14±0.53a | 0.59±0.47ab | 0.54±0.41ab | 0.79±0.23ab | 1.98±0.11a |
4 | 1.89±0.49a | 1.47±0.08a | 1.25±0.28a | 0.51±0.03ab | 0.43±0.38ab | 0.58±0.06abc | 1.95±0.06a |
6 | 1.86±0.48a | 1.35±0.13ab | 1.09±0.09a | 0.36±0.02ab | 0.38±0.11ab | 0.50±0.24bc | 1.90±0.15a |
8 | 1.54±0.28a | 0.95±0.15b | 1.11±0.51a | 0.17±0.06b | 0.10±0.01b | 0.39±0.29c | 1.75±0.17a |
Mean values followed by different letters within the same column are significantly different at P <0.05.