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Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soils Using Trees

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Cellular and Molecular Phytotoxicity of Heavy Metals

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Abstract

Environmental contamination and exposure to toxicant material is an undeniable crucial problem all over the world. The unscientific utilization of nonbiodegradable materials in enterprises, research experiments, military, and agriculture and its dumping have created a major hazard for human society, plants, and animals. Similarly, exhaust from the vehicles, industrial effluents, and industrial smoke, all these are the sources of heavy metals (HMs) which eventually get absorbed in the environment. Therefore, HMs can amass in the body of organisms and will reside inside the body for a longer period of time and cause toxicity. Additionally, HMs can also accumulate in solid form as water sediment. With more prominent mass consciousness of the concept of polluted soils on human and animal well-being there has been expanding interest between mainstream researchers in the improvement of strategies to remediate and tidy up tainted locales. One of these is a low-cost phytoremediation by trees. It is one of the low-cost methods for reclamation of contaminated areas with no effect on soil quality. The potential of various tree species to accumulate HMs differs. Hence, various factors have been developed to determine the HM accumulation potential of several trees, like CBCI (Comprehensive Bioconcentration Index) and MAI (Metal Accumulation Index) other than TF (Translocation Factor), BCF (Bioconcentration Factor), and BF (Bioaccumulation Factor). In global prospects, research on phytoremediation has grabbed a lot of attention and work on it is being conducted in almost every continent.

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  1. Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Soil Science, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran

    Omid Ahmadi & Nader KhademMoghadam

  2. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India

    Janhvi Pandey

  3. Division of Agronomy and Soil Science, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) PO-CIMAP, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Janhvi Pandey

  4. Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Soil Science, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

    Behnam AsgariLajayer

  5. Department of Medicinal Plants, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Arak University, Arak, Iran

    Mansour Ghorbanpour

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Ahmadi, O., Pandey, J., KhademMoghadam, N., AsgariLajayer, B., Ghorbanpour, M. (2020). Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soils Using Trees. In: Faisal, M., Saquib, Q., Alatar, A.A., Al-Khedhairy, A.A. (eds) Cellular and Molecular Phytotoxicity of Heavy Metals. Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45975-8_21

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