The Challenges of Arsenic in Agriculture and the Environment

The Bangladesh Consortium for Arsenic Management in Agriculture and the Environment (BCAMAE)

Graduate Fellows

Name:	Zia Uddin Ahmed
Graduate Advisor:	John M. Duxbury
University:	Cornell University
e-mail	zua3@cornell.edu
Title of research	Arsenic in Rice (Oryza Sativa): Availability, Phytotoxicity, Uptake, and Effect on Growth and Yield

Research Objectives:

To Know the spatial variation of in, groundwater, soils and rice grain
To examine differences for tolerance and uptake by different rice varieties
To investigate uptake kinetics of different arsenic species by different rice varieties
To develop arsenic adsorption isotherms for different soil groups