@article {McIntosh:2016:1522-6514:656,
title = "Breakdown of low-level total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) in contaminated soil using grasses and willows",
journal = "International Journal of Phytoremediation",
parent_itemid = "infobike://tandf/bijp",
publishercode ="tandf",
year = "2016",
volume = "18",
number = "7",
publication date ="2016-07-02T00:00:00",
pages = "656-663",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1522-6514",
eissn = "1549-7879",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/bijp/2016/00000018/00000007/art00002",
doi = "doi:10.1080/15226514.2015.1109598",
keyword = "rhizodegradation, organic contaminants, Festuca, Salix, phytoremediation, Lolium, Panicum",
author = "McIntosh, Patrick and Kuzovkina, Yulia A. and Schulthess, Cristian P. and Guillard, Karl",
abstract = "A phytoremediation study targeting low-level total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) was conducted using cool- and warm-season grasses and willows (Salix species) grown in pots filled with contaminated sandy soil from the New Haven Rail Yard, CT. Efficiencies of the TPH degradation were
assessed in a 90-day experiment using 208.716.6N-P-K water-soluble fertilizer and fertilizer with molasses amendments to enhance phytoremediation. Plant biomass, TPH concentrations, and indigenous microbes quantified with colony-forming units (CFU), were assessed at the
end of the study. Switchgrass grown with soil amendments produced the highest aboveground biomass. Bacterial CFU's were in orders of magnitude significantly higher in willows with soil amendments compared to vegetated treatments with no amendments. The greatest reduction in TPH occurred in
all vegetated treatments with fertilizer (6675%) and fertilizer/molasses (6574%), followed sequentially by vegetated treatments without amendments, unvegetated treatments with amendments, and unvegetated treatments with no amendment. Phytoremediation of low-level TPH contamination
was most efficient where fertilization was in combination with plant species. The same level of remediation was achievable through the addition of grasses and/or willow combinations without amendment, or by fertilization of sandy soil.",
}