Overview
- Demonstrates the role of plants and microbes in improving soil fertility and function
- Assists members of the environmental and plant sciences community to keep abreast of developments in terrestrial pollutant minimization
- Summarizes key recent research on biological approaches employed for cleanup of polluted soils
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Keywords
- pesticide contaminated soils
- phytoremediation
- PAH polluted soils
- mineralization of organic contaminants
- mine tailings
- fly ash dump sites
- petroleum hydrocrabons
- organic micropollutants
- biosorption and bioaccumulation
- mycorrhizas
- Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria
- terrestrial pollution
- ecotoxicology
About this book
Volume 1 focuses on important concepts such as biological remediation strategies to enhance soil quality at contaminated sites; synergistic influences of tolerant plants and rhizospheric microbial strains on the remediation of pesticide contaminated soil, and the role of plant types such as hyperaccumulator plants in the cleanup of polluted soils. Readers will discover mechanisms and underlying natural inherent traits of various plants and microbes fortolerating, excluding, remediating, accumulating, or metabolizing a variety of pollutants.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Sarvajeet S. Gill is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University in Haryana, India.
Dr. Narendra Tuteja is a Professor and Director of Amity Institute of Microbial Technology (AIMT), Amity University in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Enhancing Cleanup of Environmental Pollutants
Book Subtitle: Volume 1: Biological Approaches
Editors: Naser A. Anjum, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Narendra Tuteja
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55426-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55425-9Published: 18 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85657-5Published: 12 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55426-6Published: 10 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 327
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Terrestrial Pollution, Soil Science & Conservation, Plant Biochemistry, Ecotoxicology, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology