Plant-Based Remediation Processes

✍ Scribed by Soumya Chatterjee, Anindita Mitra, Sibnarayan Datta (auth.), Dharmendra Kumar Gupta (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 304
Series: Soil Biology 35
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Phytoremediation is an emerging technology that employs higher plants for the clean-up of contaminated environments. Basic and applied research have unequivocally demonstrated that selected plant species possess the genetic potential to accumulate, degrade, metabolize and immobilize a wide range of contaminants.

The main focus of this volume is on the recent advances of technologies using green plants for remediation of various metals and metalloids. Topics include biomonitoring of heavy metal pollution, amendments of higher uptake of toxic metals, transport of heavy metals in plants, and toxicity mechanisms. Further chapters discuss agro-technological methods for minimizing pollution while improving soil quality, transgenic approaches to heavy metal remediation and present protocols for metal remediation via in vitro root cultures.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Phytoremediation Protocols: An Overview....Pages 1-18
Protocols for Applying Phytotechnologies in Metal-Contaminated Soils....Pages 19-37
Metal/Metalloid Phytoremediation: Ideas and Future....Pages 39-58
Remediation Mechanisms of Tropical Plants for Lead-Contaminated Environment....Pages 59-77
Impact of Metal/Metalloid-Contaminated Areas on Plant Growth....Pages 79-100
Metal Remediation via In Vitro Root Cultures....Pages 101-115
Use of Wetland Plants in Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals....Pages 117-139
A Multi-disciplinary Challenge for Phytoremediation of Metal-Polluted Pyrite Waste....Pages 141-158
Phyto-transport and Assimilation of Selenium....Pages 159-175
Phytostabilization as Soil Remediation Strategy....Pages 177-198
Flax ( Linum usitatissimum L.) and Hemp ( Cannabis sativa L.) as Fibre Crops for Phytoextraction of Heavy Metals: Biological, Agro-technological and Economical Point of View....Pages 199-237
Transgenic Approaches to Enhance Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal-Polluted Soils....Pages 239-271
Phytoremediation Towards the Future: Focus on Bioavailable Contaminants....Pages 273-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-299

✦ Subjects

Plant Physiology; Soil Science & Conservation; Terrestrial Pollution; Agriculture; Plant Biochemistry

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