The Plant Family Brassicaceae Contribution Towards Phytoremediation

With the advent of the Industrial Revolution , the biosphere has been continuously polluted with a myriad of contaminants that urgently need global attention. In this perspective, most of the genera of the plant family Brassicaceae (Crucifereae or the mus

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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION VOLUME 21

Editors Brain J. Alloway, Department of Soil Science, The University of Reading, U.K. Jack T. Trevors, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Editorial Board I. Colbeck, Interdisciplinary Centre for Environment and Society, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, U.K. R.L. Crawford, Food Research Center (FRC) 204, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, U.S.A. W. Salomons, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany

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The Plant Family Brassicaceae Contribution Towards Phytoremediation

Editors Naser A. Anjum Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) & Department of Chemistry University of Aveiro 3810-193 Aveiro Portugal

Iqbal Ahmad Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) & Department of Chemistry and Biology University of Aveiro 3810-193 Aveiro Portugal

M. Eduarda Pereira Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) & Department of Chemistry University of Aveiro 3810-193 Aveiro Portugal

Armando C. Duarte Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) & Department of Chemistry University of Aveiro 3810-193 Aveiro Portugal

Shahid Umar Department of Botany Faculty of Science Hamdard University New Delhi, 110062 India

Nafees A. Khan Department of Botany Faculty of Life Sciences Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh 202002 Uttar Pradesh, India

ISSN 1566-0745 ISBN 978-94-007-3912-3 ISBN 978-94-007-3913-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-3913-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2012936075 # Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012

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