{"id":776,"date":"2016-11-07T11:05:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=776"},"modified":"2016-11-07T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:10:20","slug":"unexpected-soil-contamination-of-urban-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2016\/11\/07\/unexpected-soil-contamination-of-urban-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected soil  contamination of urban vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-777\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-777 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/Martineu-Gardens2-298x300.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/Martineu-Gardens2-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/Martineu-Gardens2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/Martineu-Gardens2-768x773.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/Martineu-Gardens2-1018x1024.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/Martineu-Gardens2-300x302.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright PENNISI et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Urban gardens are rapidly spreading in cities because people want healthier, self-grown food. However, cities are often highly polluted by atmospheric pollutants. Soils used for plant growth may also contain heavy metals. Agronomists <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-016-0391-9\" target=\"_blank\">Pennisi et al.<\/a> grew vegetables with and without soil and found that soilless vegetables contained 70% less chromium, 61% less copper, 45% less cadmium and 81% less nickel. They conclude that, unexpectedly, soil is the major pollution source of urban vegetables, not air.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-016-0391-9'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban gardens are rapidly spreading in cities because people want healthier, self-grown food. However, cities are often highly polluted by atmospheric pollutants. Soils used for plant growth may also contain heavy metals. Agronomists Pennisi et al. grew vegetables with and without soil and found that soilless vegetables contained 70% less chromium, 61% less copper, 45% &#8230; <a title=\"Unexpected soil  contamination of urban vegetables\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2016\/11\/07\/unexpected-soil-contamination-of-urban-vegetables\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Unexpected soil  contamination of urban vegetables\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}