Phytoremediation.

By E. Pilon-Smits. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2005

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Phytoremediation, the use of plants and their associated microbes for environmental cleanup, has gained acceptance in the past 10 years as a cost-effective, noninvasive alternative or complementary technology for engineering-based remediation methods. Plants can be used for pollutant stabilization, extraction, degradation, or volatilization. These different phytoremediation technologies are reviewed here, including their applicability for various organic and inorganic pollutants, and most suitable plant species. To further enhance the efficiency of phytoremediation, there is a need for better knowledge of the processes that affect pollutant availability, rhizosphere processes, pollutant uptake, translocation, chelation, degradation, and volatilization. For each of these processes I review what is known so far for inorganic and organic pollutants, the remaining gaps in our knowledge, and the practical implications for designing phytoremediation strategies. Transgenic approaches to enhance these processes are also reviewed and discussed.

Subfields: Plant Science, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Heavy Metal Polluted Soils: Effect on Plants and Bioremediation Methods (2014, background): “The first approach involves the use of natural hyperaccumulators, that is, plants with very high metal-accumulating ability, while the second approach involves the use of high biomass plants whose ability to accumulate metals is induced by the use of chelates, that is, soil amendments with metal mob”
• Transfer of heavy metals through terrestrial food webs: a review (2015, background): “terrestrial systems via aerial deposition, surface waters, or soil (Järup 2003; Boyd 2004; Pilon-Smits 2005; Chaffai and Koyama 2011).”