General Tendencies of the Behaviour of Vegetables Developed in a Soil Contaminated with Heavy Metals
The paper presents experimental results obtained in the study of heavy metals transfer from soil to vegetables. The experiments for which the raw and statistically processed data are presented in this paper are preliminary experiments within an extensive research program of plant behaviour in soils contaminated with heavy metals. These experiments underlie the development of primary statistical mathematical models that are also presented in the paper. These experiments will also form the basis for far more consistent experiments that follow plants throughout the life cycle. The statistical mathematical models presented in this paper facilitate extracting important conclusions about how plants accumulate heavy metals as well as about the accumulation rate behaviour during experiments. Both experiments and mathematical models will form the basis of complex experiments and dynamic mathematical models in the next stage of research.