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Production of Safer Vegetables from Heavy Metals Contaminated Soils: The Current Situation, Concerns Associated with Human Health and Novel Management Strategies

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Abstract

Vegetables play a chief part in the human diet and provide the essential nutrients and vitamins necessary to perform numerous essential physiological functions in the human body. Unfortunately, the consumption of vegetables laden with heavy metals (HMs) is among the most imperative issues of recent years because of their toxic impacts on human health. The toxic HMs accumulated in vegetables after their release into the ecosystem through diverse natural and human-centered activities. The prolonged use of synthetic agrochemicals, irrigation of agricultural lands with untreated municipal and industrial effluents, inappropriate dumping of solid waste, and various other industrial activities are the main causative factors of HMs accumulation in productive soils. The mobility of HMs in the soil and their accumulation in vegetables is remarkably influenced by several soil and plant factors that control their bioavailability. Reduction in growth, biomass, yield and poor nutritional quality are the key symptoms of HMs toxicity after their absorption by the vegetables. Health risks to humans via the consumption of HMs contaminated vegetables have been investigated through different risk assessment equations. Interestingly, different novel remediation techniques such as phytoremediation, immobilization, water management strategies, and applications of microbial inocula could be practiced for safer vegetable production for human consumption from HMs polluted soils.

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  • 31 January 2022

    The original version of the book was inadvertently published with incorrect affiliations in chapter 19 for the authors Veysel Turan and Muhammad Iqbal. Corrections to the Previously Published Version have been updated.

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    Hafiz Muhammad Tauqeer

  2. Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Bingöl University, Bingöl, Turkey

    Veysel Turan

  3. Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Iqbal

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Tauqeer, H.M., Turan, V., Iqbal, M. (2022). Production of Safer Vegetables from Heavy Metals Contaminated Soils: The Current Situation, Concerns Associated with Human Health and Novel Management Strategies. In: Malik, J.A. (eds) Advances in Bioremediation and Phytoremediation for Sustainable Soil Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89984-4_19

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