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Vanadium in the Environment and Its Bioremediation

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Plants, Pollutants and Remediation

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Vanadium is an element with symbol V and atomic number 23. The vast majority of vanadium demand is from the steel industry, and the rest for titanium alloy and catalyst in chemical factory. Air pollution and water pollution by vanadium were recognized from early twentieth century. Increasing information on the toxicity and medicinal use enhanced the development of bioremediation of vanadium. In this chapter, the author would like to overview the history of pollution of vanadium, vanadium toxicity, bioaccumulation and bioremediation of vanadium.

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  1. Molecular Physiology Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan

    Tatsuya Ueki

  2. Marine Biological Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 2445 Mukaishima, Onomichi, Hiroshima, 722-0073, Japan

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  2. Pakistan Academy of Science, Islamabad, Pakistan

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  3. Department of Biology, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey

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Ueki, T. (2015). Vanadium in the Environment and Its Bioremediation. In: Öztürk, M., Ashraf, M., Aksoy, A., Ahmad, M., Hakeem, K. (eds) Plants, Pollutants and Remediation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7194-8_2

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