【Objective】 How to monitor and assess soil Cd pollution and bioavailability is currently an issue of great concern. However, measurements of soil available Cd contents using the conventional chemical methods may only serve as certain reference, because they are not good enough to intuitively and truly reflect the damages soil Cd~(2+) does to plants. Bryophyta are simple in structure, free of any cuticle on their surface and quite sensitive to pollutants, so they are usually used in monitoring environmental pollution. In this paper, an effecti...