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Phytoremediation

Management of Environmental Contaminants, Volume 6

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Abid A. Ansari

    1. Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

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  2. Sarvajeet Singh Gill

    1. Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India

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  3. Ritu Gill

    1. Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India

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  4. Guy R. Lanza

    1. College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, USA

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  5. Lee Newman

    1. College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, USA

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  • Written by the world's leading authorities on phytoremediation
  • Contains the latest case studies and applied techniques of phytoremediation
  • Elucidates ground breaking methods for the production of plants to degrade or absorb the effects of pollutants

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Phytoremediation Applications: An Update

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Redesigning Abandoned Gas Stations Through Phytotechnologies

      • Frank Sleegers, Matthew Hisle
      Pages 3-20

    3. Microbial-Assisted Phytoremediation: A Convenient Use of Plant and Microbes to Clean Up Soils

      • A. P. Pinto, A. de Varennes, C. M. B. Dias, M. E. Lopes
      Pages 21-87

  3. Phytoremediation Applications for Contaminated Soils

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Sorption: Release Processes in Soil—The Basis of Phytoremediation Efficiency

      • G. Petruzzelli, M. Grifoni, M. Barbafieri, I. Rosellini, F. Pedron
      Pages 91-112

    3. A Survey on the Metal(loid) Accumulation Ability of Spontaneous and Established Plants for the Phytomanagement of an Industrial Landfill in the Venice Lagoon

      • Fabrizio Pietrini, Valentina Iori, Lucia Pietrosanti, Laura Passatore, Maria Clara Zuin, Rita Aromolo et al.
      Pages 113-131

  4. Phytoremediation Applications for Contaminated Waters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Role of PGPR in the Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals and Crop Growth Under Municipal Wastewater Irrigation

      • Naeem Khan, Asghari Bano
      Pages 135-149

    3. Constructed Wetlands Case Studies for the Treatment of Water Polluted with Fuel and Oil Hydrocarbons

      • Alexandros I. Stefanakis
      Pages 151-167

    4. Tolerance to Metals in Two Species of Fabaceae Grown in Riverbank Sediments Polluted with Chromium, Copper, and Lead

      • Gabriel Basílico, Ana Faggi, Laura de Cabo
      Pages 169-178

    5. Phytoremediation of Industrial Wastewater by Hydrophytes

      • Hera Naheed Khan, Muhammad Faisal
      Pages 179-200

  5. Phytoremediation and Microbial Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
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    2. A Promising Role of Lichens, Their Secondary Metabolites and miRNAs on Treatment of Cancer Disease After Exposure to Carcinogenic Heavy Metals

      • Vildan Torun, Elif Değerli, Demet Cansaran-Duman
      Pages 203-214

    3. Phytoremediation of Chromium-Polluted Soil Using Plants in Conjunction with Microbes

      • Ayesha Siddiqa, Muhammad Faisal
      Pages 215-231

  6. Phytoremediation Applications of Organic Contaminants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Biological Aspects of Selenium and Silicon Nanoparticles in the Terrestrial Environments

      • Hassan El-Ramady, Tarek Alshaal, Nevien Elhawat, Eman El-Nahrawy, Alaa El-Dein Omara, Sahar El-Nahrawy et al.
      Pages 235-264

  7. Specialized Plant Species for Phytoremediation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 265-265
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    2. Dendroremediation: The Role of Trees in Phytoextraction of Trace Elements

      • Mirosław Mleczek, Monika Gąsecka, Janina Kaniuczak, Piotr Goliński, Małgorzata Szostek, Zuzanna Magdziak et al.
      Pages 267-295

    3. The Possibility of Use of Oil Seed Plants and Grasses for Phytoremediation

      • Saule Atabayeva
      Pages 297-318
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About this book

This text details the plant-assisted remediation method, “phytoremediation”, which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil contaminated with high levels of metals, metalloids, fuel and oil hydrocarbons,  nano particles, pesticides, solvents,  organic compounds and various other contaminants. Many chapters highlight and compare the efficiency and economic advantages of phytoremediation and nano-phytoremediation to currently practiced soil and water treatment practices.


Volume 6 of Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants continues the series. Taken together, the six volumes provide a broad–based global synopsis of the current applications of phytoremediation using plants and the microbial communities associated with their roots to decontaminate terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia

    Abid A. Ansari

  • Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India

    Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Ritu Gill

  • College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, Syracuse, USA

    Guy R. Lanza, Lee Newman

About the editors

Abid A. Ansari is assistant professor in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ansari’s research work is concerned with phytoremediation and eutrophication. Dr. Ansari has to his credit a number of research articles of national and international repute, eleven edited books, and a number of book chapters on varied aspects of his field of research. He has been awarded Scientist of the Year and Environmentalist of the Year by the National Environmental Science Academy, India, and Research Excellence by the University of Tabuk.


Dr. Sarvajeet Singh Gill is currently working as Professor (Asstt.) at Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India. Dr. Sarvajeet Gill’s research includes abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants, reactive oxygen species signaling and antioxidant machinery, gene expression, helicases, crop improvement, transgenics, nitrogen & sulfur metabolism and plant fungal symbiotic interactions. Together with Dr. Narendra Tuteja at ICGEB, New Delhi, he worked on plant helicases for abiotic stress tolerance. His research uncovered new pathways to plant abiotic stress tolerance and indicates the potential for improving crop production at sub-optimal conditions. Sarvajeet Gill has edited several books with Springer, Wiley, Elsevier, CABI etc and has a number of research papers, review articles, and book chapters to his name. Recently, Dr. Sarvajeet Gill conferred with INDIA Research Excellence & Citation Award – 2017 from Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science).


Dr. Ritu Gill is currently working as Professor (Asstt.) at Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India. Dr. Gill is working on phytoremediation, plant abiotic stress and molecular aspects of host-parasite relations. She has published a number of refereed journal articles, book chapters, books. She has been awarded with various researchfellowships along with the Young Scientist Award by the Indian Society for Parasitology.


Guy R. Lanza is a Research Professor in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York. He also serves as Secretary of the International Expert Advisory Council at the University of Tyumen, Russia. He has previously worked at the Office of Environmental Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Institute of Environmental Medicine, New York University, the Environmental Science programs at both the University of Texas (Dallas) and the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). His primary research interests are in environmental microbiology, phytoremediation, and aquatic ecology. He has published more than 80 refereed journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, serves on the editorial boards of several microbiology journals and served as a Fulbright Scholar in Vietnam and Russia.


Lee Newman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York. Dr. Lee’s primary research interests are in phytoremediation and interactions between plants and endophytic bacteria. She has published a number of refereed journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports.

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