The invention relates to a method adopting an
ammonia carboxy chelating agent and
festuca arundinacea to restore
compost matrix
heavy metals, which comprises adding 20g of prepared
compost in each culture dish with the
diameter to be 6cm, and adding the
ammonia carboxy chelating agent with the concentration of 5-20mmol / kg<-1> into
compost matrix; then selecting full
festuca arundinacea seeds, enabling the number of the seeds in each dish to be 50; placing the culture dishes where the seeds are sown in a laboratory to germinate the seeds, watering the seeds for one time respectively in the
morning and in the
evening each day, often exchanging positions of the culture dishes to guarantee conformity of illumination, enabling the illumination strength during the culture period to be 350-800 mu mol / m<-2>s<-1>, enabling the temperature in the laboratory to be 16 DEG C to 24 DEG C, and enabling the
relative humidity to be 38-55%; and adopting a TAS-990 atomic absorption spectrophotometer to determine content of various
heavy metals. According to experimental results, on the upper portion of the
festuca arundinacea, Cr is concentrated maximally when the concentration of the
ammonia carboxy chelating agent is 10 mmol / kg<-1>, Cd, Cu and Zn are concentrated maximally when the concentration of the ammonia carboxy chelating agent is 15 mmol / kg<-1>, and Pb is concentrated maximally when the concentration of the ammonia carboxy chelating agent is 20 mmol / kg<-1>. Accordingly, the concentration of
nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) should be changed in selection according to differences of different plants in concentrating the
heavy metals.