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Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and Their Potential in Environmental Management: Constraints, Prospects, and Challenges

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Bioremediation of Industrial Waste for Environmental Safety

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Increasing environmental contamination with highly toxic chemicals is warning us to find sustainable technologies to protect the environment and human health, which is a key challenge of the current scenario. A variety of physicochemical technologies are currently being applied presently to decontaminate the environment to safeguard the environment and human health. However, these technologies are costly and chemical-consuming, thus causing secondary pollution and, hence, are not environmental-friendly. As an alternative approach, bioremediation technologies using microbes and plants and their enzymes are currently viewed as eco-friendly and most sustainable technologies due to their self-sustainable and low-cost nature. But sometimes bioremediation technologies are get limited by low degradability/accumulability of microbes and plants, respectively. To overcome these limitations, genetic engineering approaches are highly decisive to design the transgenic microbes and plants for the enhanced biodegradation and biodetoxification of environmental pollutants for sustainable development. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) offer great potential for environmental remediation, and hence, in this chapter, we focused on the applications of GMOs in the environmental management with risks involved, constraints, and challenges faced by researchers in the release of GMOs for field applications.

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Gaurav Saxena and Roop Kishor are thankful to the University Grants Commission (UGC) Fellowship from UGC, Government of India, New Delhi, India.

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Saxena, G., Kishor, R., Saratale, G.D., Bharagava, R.N. (2020). Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and Their Potential in Environmental Management: Constraints, Prospects, and Challenges. In: Bharagava, R., Saxena, G. (eds) Bioremediation of Industrial Waste for Environmental Safety. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3426-9_1

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