Biochemical Mechanisms of Detoxification in Higher Plants Basis of P
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
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George Kvesitadze · Gia Khatisashvili Tinatin Sadunishvili · Jeremy J. Ramsden
Biochemical Mechanisms of Detoxification in Higher Plants Basis of Phytoremediation With 96 Figures and 8 Tables
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George Kvesitadze Gia Khatisashvili Tinatin Sadunishvili Durmishidze Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology David Agmasheneblis Kheivani, 10 km 0159 Tbilisi, Georgia [email protected] Jeremy J. Ramsden Chair of Nanotechnology School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science Cranfield University Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, UK j.ramsden@cranfield.ac.uk
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Preface
In our new millennium environmental problems have become closely linked to everybody’s life: the condition of the environment has become one of the most vitally important parameters determining the continuing existence of mankind. The inexorable and seemingly permanent increase of technogenic contaminants in all ecological niches creates danger for all nature. Confronted with this situation, the rational use of the capabilities of higher plants, which even today, after the anthropogenic destruction of so much flora, still cover more than 45% of the land, to absorb and detoxify contaminants of amazingly diverse chemical structures might be a significant route to solve the problem. As an inherently biological principle of environmental remediation, phytoremed
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