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Assessing Plants for Phytoremediation of Arsenic-Contaminated Soils
Arsenic (As) is a pollutant of major concern throughout the world, and causes serious environmental problems in many areas including, for example,...
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Phytoremediation in China
During recent decades contamination of ecosystems by synthetic organic compounds has increased tremendously in China, and now poses a major...
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Using Plant Phylogeny to Predict Detoxification of Triazine Herbicides
A plant useful for phytoremediation has first to grow in the presence of the target pollutant without being harmed. The plant must not only be...
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Using Electrodics to Aid Mobilization of Lead in Soil
Lead is a significant contaminant in soil that poses a challenge to phytoremediation because of its low bioavailability induced by complexation with...
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Manipulating Soil Metal Availability Using EDTA and Low-Molecular-Weight Organic Acids
Soils can be contaminated with heavy metals from various human activities and a num-ber of ex situ and in situ techniques have been developed to...
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Detoxification of Soil Phenolic Pollutants by Plant Secretory Enzyme
The enormous growth of industrialization and agriculture has resulted in serious environmental pollution, and polychlorophenols are among the most...
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Increasing Plant Tolerance to Metals in the Environment
An effective metal phytoremediation strategy depends on the ability of plants to tolerate and accumulate metals from the environment. Metals in soil...
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Testing the Manipulation of Soil Availability of Metals
Manipulating heavy-metal availability with chelating agents is a way to accelerate natural phytoremediation of contaminated soils. Nevertheless,...
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Stable Isotope Methods for Estimating the Labile Metal Content of Soils
Estimation of the labile or available metal content of soils relies extensively on the use of chemical-extraction techniques. However, where interest...
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Sectored Planters for Phytoremdiation Studies
Field practice of phytoremediation involves complicated and variable conditions. There is a need for methods that can transpose the contaminated site...
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Soils Contaminated With Radionuclides
Soils contaminated with radionuclides provide a particular challenge to soil decontamination and hence a useful perspective on the phytoextraction of...
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Phytoremediation in Russia
Phytoremediation is taking a prominent place in the processes of environmental cleanup from hazardous pollutants, and there is increasing interest...
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Phytoremediation in India
In India, urbanization, excessive utilization of natural resources, and population growth are the causes for air, water, and soil contamination and...
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Searching for Genes Involved in Metal Tolerance, Uptake, and Transport
Despite the recent exploitation of high-throughput methodologies such as cDNA microarrays, the overall picture of plant metal tolerance,...
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Phytoremediation in Portugal
A specific database concerning the number of sites suitable for phytoremediation, i.e., those sites that contain contaminants in moderate...
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Plant Phylogeny and the Remediation of Persistent Organic Pollutants
The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, we review the relevant literature regarding the phytoremediation of persistent organic pollutants...
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In Vitro Hairy Root Cultures as a Tool for Phytoremediation Research
Plant model systems are needed in which to conduct basic laboratory studies prior to field applications of phytoremediation. In vitro plant cultures...
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Phytoremediation With Living Aquatic Plants
This chapter provides a summary of the mathematical analysis and experimental design of laboratory measurements of the bioremoval potential for...
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Implementing Phytoremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons
An evaluation of the current “state of the art” for the phytoremediation of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) is given, which will allow for...
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Uptake, Assimilation, and Novel Metabolism of Nitrogen Dioxide in Plants
To understand the uptake and assimilation of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in various plants, quantification of both inorganic nitrogen such as nitrate,...