Biomanagement of Metal-Contaminated Soils

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Khan, Mohammad Saghir (Editor), Zaidi, Almas (Editor), Goel, Reeta (Editor), Musarrat, Javed (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Environmental Pollution, 20
• Subjects: Environment.; Microbiology.; Agriculture.; Environmental management.; Environmental health.; Environmental engineering.; Biotechnology.; Sustainable development.; Environmental Management.; Applied Microbiology.; Environmental Health.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology.

Heavy-metal contamination is one of the world's major environmental problems, posing significant risks to agro-ecosystems. However, conventional technologies for metal-contaminated soil remediation have often been expensive and disruptive.   This book provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art co...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents: Heavy-Metal Pollution: Source, Impact and Remedies
• Metal-Plant Interactions: Toxicity and Tolerance.-Bioremediation: New Approaches and Trends
• Legume-Rhizobium Symbioses as a Tool for Bioremediation of Heavy Metal Polluted Soils
• Importance of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils
• Research Advances in Bioremediation of Soils and Groundwater Using Plant-Based Systems: A Case for Enlarging and Updating Information and Knowledge in Environmental Pollution Management in Developing Countries
• The Bacterial Flora of the Nickel-hyperaccumulator Plant Alyssum bertolonii
• Use of Biosurfactants in the Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Soils.-Mechanism of Metal Tolerance and Detoxification in Mycorrhizal Fungi
• Metal Signaling in Plants: New Possibilities for Crop Management under Cadmium Contaminated Soils (...)
• Index.    .