Biochemical Mechanisms of Detoxification in Higher Plants Basis of Phytoremediation /

• Main Authors: Kvesitadze, George (Author), Khatisashvili, Gia (Author), Sadunishvili, Tinatin (Author), Ramsden, Jeremy J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Biotechnology.; Food > Biotechnology.; Plant biochemistry.; Plant ecology.; Environmental management.; Air pollution.; Food Science.; Plant Biochemistry.; Plant Ecology.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Environmental Management.

Plants play a key role in purifying the biosphere of the toxic effects of industrial activity. This book shows how systematic application of the results of investigations into the metabolism of xenobiotics (foreign, often toxic substances) in plants could make a vastly increased contribution to plan...

Table of Contents:

• Contaminants in the environment
• Uptake, translocation and effects of contaminants in plants
• The fate of organic contaminants in the plant cell
• The ecological importance of plants for contaminated environments.