The screening, breeding and exploiting of cultivars that accumulate low heavy metals in edible part has been a hot point to cope with the heavy metal pollution in agriculture soil. It has been reported that plants belonging to cruciferae genus Brassica are high heavy metal accumulator and could be easily polluted by heavy metals such as Cd and Pb. In order to minimize the entry of Cd into the food chain, the present study investigated the Cd accumulation of Chinese flowering cabbage (Brassica parachinensis)...