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Pb-contaminated soil acts as a phytotoxic element in environmental rehabilitation and cleaning with hyperaccumilator plants, which can accumulate these contaminants most efficiently and effectively, and serves as a significant and economically advantageous measure for long-term and environmental preservation. Crops such as sunflower (profitable edible oil crop) with high biomass and economically second only to soy bean among vegan oils with high protein content. The sole approach for high biomass and bioenergy for phytoremediation is a strategy for gaining additional benefits in addition to remedial efforts. This study used physiologically matured sunflower pots with concentrations of Pb (50,100,150,200,250 mg/kg-1) from the 30th, 60th and 90th harvesting days. Based on the bioaccumulation coefficient (BAC), bioconcentration factor (BCF), and translocation factor (TF), As a result Pb absorption is larger in the root (+0.58) than in the shoot (+ 0.10)than in the leaves (+0.07).