Phytoremediation of heavy metals--concepts and applications.

By H. Ali, Ezzat Khan, M. Sajad. Chemosphere, 2013

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Subfields: Analytical Chemistry, Plant Science, Pollution

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis: plant growth improvement and induction of resistance under stressful conditions (2021, background): “Soil contamination by heavy metals affects plant crops and human health (Ali et al. 2013).”
Phycoremediation of wastewaters: a synergistic approach using microalgae for bioremediation and biomass generation (2015, background): “from wastewater seems to be a promising option (Ali et al. 2013; Franchino et al. 2013; Richards and Mullins 2013; Sood et al. 2012).”
Bioremediation of Heavy Metals from Soil and Aquatic Environment: An Overview of Principles and Criteria of Fundamental Processes (2015, background): “It can be used for removal of radionuclides, organic pollutants as well as heavy metals [92].”
Nickel: Human Health and Environmental Toxicology (2020, background): “It removes pollutants, including toxic and radioactive metals, from the environment by using plants [125].”
Heavy Metal Stress and Some Mechanisms of Plant Defense Response (2015, background): “Of the implications of human-induced disturbance of natural biogeochemical cycles, accentuated accumulation of heavy metals (HMs) is a problem of paramount importance for ecological, nutritional, and environmental reasons [1, 2].”
A Review on Practical Application and Potentials of Phytohormone-Producing Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria for Inducing Heavy Metal Tolerance in Crops (2020, background): “Due to these hazards, as well as high cost and less efficiency of these strategies [103], scientists are trying to find out cost-effective, ecofriendly, and reproducible solutions to remediate heavy metal contaminated soils.”
Phytoremediation strategies for soils contaminated with heavy metals: Modifications and future perspectives. (2017, methodology): “Phytoextraction mechanism has five major steps; metal mobilization in rhizosphere, 263 metal ion uptake by plant roots, translocation towards aerial plant parts, metal sequestration in 264 plant tissues and heavy metal tolerance (Ali et al., 2013).”
Phytoremediation: A Promising Approach for Revegetation of Heavy Metal-Polluted Land (2020, background): “However, there are limitations reported on these physicochemical approaches such as high cost, inefficiency when contaminants are present at low concentrations, irreversible changes to the physicochemical and biological properties of soils, which lead to the deterioration of the soil ecosystem, intr”
Copper Toxicity on Photosynthetic Responses and Root Morphology of Hymenaea courbaril L. (Caesalpinioideae) (2018, background): “One of the major hurdles of phytoremediation is the influence of other environmental stresses (besides the presence of metal) on contaminant uptake by plants (Ali et al. 2013).”
Bioremediation techniques–classification based on site of application: principles, advantages, limitations and prospects (2016, background): “However, longer remediation time, pollutant concentration, toxicity and bioavailability to plant, depth of plant roots and plant slow growth rate are likely to limit the application of phytoremediation (Kuiper et al. 2004; Vangronsveld et al. 2009; Ali et al. 2013).”