https://un-pub.eu/ojs/index.php/wjer <p align="justify"><strong>World Journal of Environmental Research (WJER)</strong> is an international peer-refereed journal which publishes global research articles about all aspects of environmental areas with the aim of sharing the findings of different environmental issues to provide contributions to the scientific studies.</p> <p><strong>Basic Rules</strong></p> <p>1) The Contac author must be one of the <strong>article authors</strong>. Other than the authors, no one else can submit the article. <strong>It is immediately rejected</strong>.</p> <p>2) Make sure that issues about publication ethics, copyright, authorship, figure formats, data, and references format have been appropriately considered.</p> <p>3) Ensure that all authors have approved the content of the submitted manuscript. Once a manuscript has been submitted, no author changes, additions or reductions can be made. In that case, the manuscript will be <strong>rejected at any stage</strong>.</p> <p>4) An author can publish a maximum of two articles per year.</p> <p>5) Manuscripts submitted to WJER Journal should neither been published before nor be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference.</p> <p>6) An article can have a maximum of six (6) authors.</p> BIRLESIK DUNYA YENILIK ARASTIRMA VE YAYINCILIK MERKEZI en-US World Journal of Environmental Research 2301-2641 <p>World Journal of Environmental Research is an Open Access Journal. All articles can be downloaded free of charge. Articles published in the Journal are Open-Access articles distributed under <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)</a></strong></p> https://un-pub.eu/ojs/index.php/wjer/article/view/9475 <p>Soil contamination caused by anthropogenic activities such as industrial activity, excessive waste disposal and natural disasters has become a major problem that endangers human health and the ecosystems. As a low-cost and environmentally friendly remediation method; phytoremediation of polluted soils has attracted a lot of attention. The goal of this study was to screen for the potential of <em>Helianthus annuus</em> L a local plant in the scope area to remediate lead-contaminated soil in a laboratory setting<em>.</em> Phytotolerance of the plant was determined by subjecting the plant to various concentration of Lead (Pb), where 3 kg of pristine soil is spiked with Pb in triplicate in a pots were used for (CR5%=150, CR10%=300, CR15%=450, CR20%=600, CR25%=750 mg) of Pb. The plant gowth is measured for tolerance of lead, Atomic Absorptiob spectrophotometer (AAS) was used determine uptake of lead by the plant samples. The results of phytotolerance of <em>H. annuus </em>show a significant growth of the in lower concentration C5% compared to the control which was not spiked with Pb though there is decrease in the plant growth at high concentration of C25% Pb. The wet and dry biomass of <em>H. annuus</em> in a timeframe of 15 days was analyzed shows significant effect of the heavy metal in the biomass formation. The uptake of Pb by <em>H. annuus</em> was measured using AAS and it show a significant accumulation of Pb in the plant root and very significant in higher concentration of Pb was accumulated and translocated .it is concluded from this study that sunflower plant can absorb and accumulate quantities of lead without affecting the production of biomass indicating the possibility of using it as good candidate in the remediation of Pb polluted soils.</p> Hafsat Ngabra Ibrahim Alkali Allamin Haruna Yahya Ismail Mohammed Ngabra Hussaini Shettima Kaumi Ali Misherima Copyright (c) 2024 World Journal of Environmental Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 2024-12-13 2024-12-13 14 2 49 59 10.18844/wjer.v14i2.9475