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Bioremediation of Toxic Pollutants: Features, Strategies, and Applications

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Advancement in the agricultural science and technology made it possible to increase production and availability of nutrition and enriched food to the increasing population. However, this advancement has also been incorporating pollutants into the environment day by day similar to the industrialization and urbanization. Although nature itself is capable to depollute agricultural pollutants to some extent through general recycling processes, the persistent toxic pollutants need additional efforts for proper detoxification. There are three main approaches, namely, physical, chemical, and biological, which are used to solve this issue. In recent years, special attention has been given to biological approaches due to their low cost, less time and resources requirement, and environmentally friendly nature. The use of biological approaches for abatement of environmental pollution is called bioremediation. Bioremediation is an environment cleaning process which uses microorganisms, fungi, green plants, or their enzymes to reclaim polluted soil and water. This chapter outlines the technologies and strategies involved in bioremediation processes, their special features, recent developments, and applications.

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Yadav, A. et al. (2020). Bioremediation of Toxic Pollutants: Features, Strategies, and Applications. In: Naeem, M., Ansari, A., Gill, S. (eds) Contaminants in Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41552-5_18

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