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Detoxification of Heavy Metals: State of Art

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Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 30))

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Soil, one of the most important natural resources, is becoming degraded due to anthropogenic activities. Each source of contamination has its own damaging effects to plants, animals, and humans, but the pollution from heavy metals is of serious concern and a big potential threat to the environment and human health. This chapter gives a general overview of (1) some of the sources of heavy metal contaminants in soil like mining, agricultural activities, sewage sludge, fossil fuel combustion, metallurgical and chemical industries, electronics, etc.; (2) soil–plant relationships regarding heavy metals; (3) heavy metal tolerance mechanism(s) in plants; and (4) introduces some of approaches used nowadays to reclaim heavy metal polluted soils. These technologies must be easy to use, sustainable, and economically feasible.

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Agrawal, J., Sherameti, I., Varma, A. (2011). Detoxification of Heavy Metals: State of Art. In: Sherameti, I., Varma, A. (eds) Detoxification of Heavy Metals. Soil Biology, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21408-0_1

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