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  • Title: Organochlorine pesticides in Avicennia marina from the Mumbai mangroves, India.
    Author: Shete A, Gunale VR, Pandit GG.
    Journal: Chemosphere; 2009 Sep; 76(11):1483-5. PubMed ID: 19665754.
    Abstract:
    This paper examines the concentration levels of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) such as hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) (alpha, beta and gamma), Aldrin, Endosulfan (alpha, beta), DDE, DDD, and DDT in the leaf, root and sediment part of Avicennia marina, a dominantly distributed mangrove species in Mumbai. The overall pattern of accumulation of OCPs was observed as sigmaHCH> sigmaDDT> sigmaEndosulfan>Aldrin. The occurrence of alphaHCH was found to be frequent in all the samples. The leaf and root samples showed better uptake of organochlorine pesticides whereas lower concentration levels of OCPs was observed in case of sediment samples. The mean concentration of OCPs was observed highest in case of root samples. This study indicated towards the capability of A. marina in bioaccumulation of the OCPs. The present data will serve as the baseline against which future study of OCPs uptake in the mangrove plant species may be assessed.
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