Nature and Science 2009;7(10)
Njoku et al., Phytoremediation of crude oil contaminated soil
PHYTOREMEDIATION OF CRUDE OIL CONTAMINATED SOIL: THE EFFECT OF GROWTH OF Glycine max ON THE PHYSICO-CHEMISTRY AND CRUDE OIL CONTENTS OF SOIL NJOKU, K.L., AKINOLA, M.O. AND OBOH, B.O. Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, University of Lagos, Akoka Lagos, Nigeria.
[email protected] Abstract The remediation of oil contaminated soils has been a major problem in oil producing countries and recently use of plants to clean such soils has been on investigation. In order to identify plants that can enhance the remediation of crude oil contaminated soil, the effect of the growth of G. max on the physico-chemistry and crude oil content of soil contaminated with different concentrations of crude oil was investigated in this study. The results revealed that the pH, moisture and organic matter contents of soils contaminated with crude oil were significantly affected by the growth of G. max at differently levels of significance (P
