Global geographical variation in elemental and arsenic species concentration in paddy rice grain identifies a close association of essential elements copper, selenium and molybdenum with cadmium

Meharg A.A., Meharg C., Carey M., Williams P.N., Shi Z., Campbell K., Elliott C.T., Marwa E.M., Jiujin X., Gomes Farias J., Teixeira Nicoloso F., De Silva P.M.C.S., Lu Y., Green A., Moreno-Jiménez E., Carbonell-Barrachina Á.A., Sommella A., Pigna M., Brabet C., Montet D., Hossain M., Islam M.R.
2023

Despite the centrality of staple grains for human well-being, both as a source of nutrients and of toxic ions, there is little understanding of where and how elements vary, and if there are particular elements that correlate. Here, for shop bought polished (white) rice, we comprehensively characterized trace (arsenic species, cadmium, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, rubidium and zinc) and ...