Plants, Pollutants and Remediation
Environmental remediation technology has become a rapidly emerging branch of science in the 21st century. This technology is helping many branches of life sciences in solving the problems. This book therefore presents a holistic view of the complex and dy
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Plants, Pollutants and Remediation
Münir Öztürk • Muhammad Ashraf Ahmet Aksoy • M. S. A. Ahmad Khalid Rehman Hakeem Editors
Plants, Pollutants and Remediation
Editors Münir Öztürk Botany Department and Center for Environmental Studies Ege University Bornova Izmir, Turkey Ahmet Aksoy Department of Biology Akdeniz University Antalya, Turkey
Muhammad Ashraf Pakistan Academy of Science Islamabad, Pakistan M. S. A. Ahmad Botany Department University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
Khalid Rehman Hakeem Faculty of Forestry Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
ISBN 978-94-017-7193-1 ISBN 978-94-017-7194-8 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-7194-8
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Foreword
Centuries ago, nature was dominant and human interference was negligible. Gradually population and industrialization increased, resulting in pollution of natural resources. Pollution is a glocal (global and local) problem. Of late, considerable efforts have been put in for decontaminating the polluted substrates such as air, water, and soil. In this regard, the subject of phytoremediation gained global momentum and has grown phenomenally. Nature’s cure using plant resources (phytoremediation) is a sustainable solution for environmental decontamination. As of now, about 25,000 articles have been published on various aspects of using biological resources for environmental cleanup starting with only 11 in 1989. The use of plants for the remediation of surface soils polluted and contaminated with toxic heavy metals is well established. The plant-based technologies are applicable to inorganic and organic contaminants and pollutants. A wide variety of techn
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