Phytoremediation Management of Environmental Contaminants, Volume 6 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ansari, Abid A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gill, Sarvajeet Singh (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gill, Ritu (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), R. Lanza, Guy (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Newman, Lee (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Plant biochemistry.; Plant ecology.; Plant physiology.; Soil science.; Soil conservation.; Pollution.; Environmental chemistry.; Plant Biochemistry.; Plant Ecology.; Plant Physiology.; Soil Science & Conservation.; Pollution, general.; Environmental Chemistry.
• Physical Description: XV, 476 p. 56 illus., 45 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319996516
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99651-6

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, pesticides, solvents, radionuclides, explosives, crude oil, organic compounds and various other contaminants. Many chapters highlight and compare the efficiency and economic advantages of 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. .