Rice is an efficient arsenic accumulator & thus irrigation with arsenic-contaminated groundwater & soil may induce human health hazard via water-soil-plant-human pathway. Hence the presence of arsenic in irrigation water & paddy soil was studied to assess arsenic accumulation & its distribution in rice plant from arsenic-affected areas of West Bengal. Simultaneous greenhouse pot experiments were conducted on high-yielding, hybrid & local rice varieties to study the uptake, distribution & phytotoxicity of arsenic in rice plant. Results showed that paddy soil get contaminated from irrigation...