Study capacity of reeds and papyrus plants in bioremediation for removing some excreted antibiotics to waste water for Samarra drug industry

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This research included study the capacity of Typha domengensis and Phragmites communis plants in bioremediation for removing some antibiotics as one of pollutants discard to Waste Water for Samarra Drug Industry (SDI) two antibiotics had selected (Cephalexin and Amoxicillin) because their amounts is the greater according to production during study period.

Two stations had Selected for test, The first station of exist plants inside Samarra drug industry and the second station of plants exist on the edge of the Tigris river as control station.

The study included the evaluation of antibiotics, chlorophyll A and B, proteins and carbohydrates in plants.

The results of the plants indicated that the concentrations of antibiotics in the first station ranged between (0.002-0.089) mg / ml for cephalexin and (Nil-0.001) mg / ml for amoxicillin in reeds, and results ranged between (0.001-0.095) mg / ml for cephalexin and was not significant (Nil) for amoxicillin in papyrus, and no antibiotic value (Nil) was recorded at the second station.

The values of chlorophyll A ranged (0.18-1.09), (0.12-0.89) mg / L at the first and second stations respectively, as well as the values of chlorophyll B ranged between (0.36-2.38), (0.28-1.46) mg / L for reeds, There was also variability in papyrus, with values of chlorophyll a (0.05-0.99), (0.17-1.92) mg / L and chlorophyll B ranged between (0.20-1.67), (0.40-1.76) mg / L for both stations respectively, The values of the proteins in the reeds ranged between (250-783), (184-680) μg/L respectively, and in the papyrus were (330-673), (280-726) μg/L for the two stations respectively, Carbohydrate values in reeds ranged between (0.16-2.60), (0.11-2.57) mg/L respectively, and in the papyrus was between (0.15-2.88), (0.13-2.59) mg/L respectively.