Phytoremediation and Rhizoremediation

Theoretical Background

Thomas Macek, David Dowling, Martina Mackova - Collection Focus on Biotechnology Series

308 pages, parution le 01/11/2006

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In recent years a boom can be seen in the literature dealing with phytoremediation. This Volume contains detailed explanation of the basic methods where plants are exploited in environmental remediation. The chapters represent an excellent description of the hottest topics in the field of phyto- and rhizoremediation.

The first part of Volume 9 will supply the readers with up-to-date information concerning the necessary theoretical background, both concerning removal of heavy metals from the contaminated environment, and removal, detoxication and even degradation of toxic organic contaminants. Until recently phytoremediation has been discussed mostly in monographs dealing with microbiological remediation methods as a separate chapter, just to illustrate an additional possibility of use of biological systems. This book intends to show especially the importance of cooperation between plant and microorganisms, there is practically no phytoremediation without rhizoremediation. Newest approaches based on methods of molecular biology and genetic engineering are described, as well as plant science achievements. The great advantage of this volume is that the reader will find here in addition to a survey of published data also a lot of original findings, thus supplying an up-to-date review of this quickly developing field of science.

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Introduction
The chemical ecology of pollutant biodegradation: Bioremediation and phytoremediation from mechanistic and ecological perspectives
Dendroremediation: The use of trees in cleaning up polluted soils
Methods for rhizoremediation research: Approaches to experimental design and microbial analysis
Constructed wetlands for phytoremediation: Rhizofiltration, phytostabilisation and phytoextraction
Influence of helophytes on redox reactions in their rhizosphere
Exploitation of fast growing trees in metal remediation
Using hyperaccumulator plants to phytoextract soil Cd
Enhanced heavy metal phytoextraction
Enzymes transferring biomolecules to organic foreign compounds: a role for glucosyltransferase and glutathione S-transferase in phytoremediation
Phytoremediation of polychlorinated biphenyls
Metabolism and genetic engineering studies for herbicide phytoremediation
Pesticides removal using plants: phytodegradation versus phytostimulation
Phytoremediation of volatile organic compounds
In vitro propagation of wetland monocots for phytoremediation
Modifying a plant's response to stress by decreasing ethylene production
Mycorrhizal fungi as helping agents in phytoremediation of degraded and contaminated soils
Assessing risks and containing or mitigating gene flow of transgenic and non-transgenic phytoremediating plants
Human exposure assessment for food - one equation for all crops is not enough

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Thomas Macek, David Dowling, Martina Mackova
Collection	Focus on Biotechnology Series
Parution	01/11/2006
Nb. de pages	308
Couverture	Broché
Poids	676g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781402049521
ISBN13	978-1-4020-4952-1