Bioremediation of Emerging Contaminants: Omics and Phytotech Approaches explores transgenic plant technologies and their important role in addressing environmental pollution. The book provides practical applications for improving environmental management strategies by examining established protocols and innovative techniques that enhance phytoremediation efficacy. By addressing current environmental challenges, this book not only advances academic understanding but also develops practical solutions for pollution control. It is a critical resource that assimilates the latest methodologies on genetic engineering and omics approaches for an extensive range of contaminants, from pharmaceuticals to heavy metals.
Section 1: Bioremediation of emerging contaminants
1. Remediation of emerging contaminants and pollutants: role of plants and
microbial genetic engineering, omics and phytotech approaches
2. Bioremediation of Strontium and manganese
3. Microbiome and phytobiome for remediation of emerging contaminants
4. Phytoremediation of cyanotoxins
Section 2: Pesticides, POP, PPCP, Explosives, radionuclides and toxic metal
detoxification
5. Persistent organics and pharmaceutical and personal care products
6. Microbial Genetic Engineering Technologies for Remediation of Pesticides
7. Transgenic approaches for heavy metal detoxification
8. Use of transgenic plants and genetically modified bacteria for remediation
of pharmaceutical contaminants in water
9. Remediation of radionuclides
10. Remediation of Pesticides
11. Personal care products contamination, remediation: Focus on antibiotic
resistance using machine learning and Omic approaches
12. Environmental degradation of explosives using transgenic microbes
Section 3: Plant Diversity for Remediation of Emerging Contaminants
13. Environmental remediation of emerging contaminants using Brassicaceae
14. Millets for remediation of contaminants emerging contaminants
15. Transgenic Populus (poplars), Salix (willows) and Miscanthus for
remediation of emerging contaminants
16. Transgenic mulberry for remediation of emerging contaminants
Section 4: Biodiversity for remediation of Emerging contaminants
17. Phycoremediation for detoxification of Herbicides
18. Plant-microbe interactions in phytoremediation of soils containing
emerging contaminants
Section 5: Genetic engineering and microbial applications for
degradation/detoxification of Emerging contaminants
19. Poly aromatic hydrocarbon degradation using genetically engineered
microbes
20. Transgenics and the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria of fresh
water ecosystem
21. Biochemical targets of genetic engineering for degradation of Herbicides
22. Transgenic plants application and risks in Bioremediation of Emerging
contaminants
23. Synthetic biology approaches including aptamers for bioremediation of
Emerging contaminants
24. Microbial bio-desulfurization of crude oil
Section 6: Physiological, biochemical, molecular and nanotechnological
approaches for bioremediation of emerging contaminants
25. Molecular and Nanotechnology approaches for Bioremediation of Emerging
contaminants
26. Recombinant microorganisms role in biodegradation of emerging
contaminants
27. Genes Used for Phytoremediation: The Atbor4 Gene for Boron remediation
28. Physiological, biochemical and molecular aspects of remediation emerging
contaminants
29. Polyaromatic hydrocarbon degradation using genetically engineered
microbes
30. Plant Growth Regulators role in remediations of emerging contaminants
Section 7: Transgenic approaches for remediation of Emerging contaminants
31. Transgenics and the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria of fresh
water ecosystem
32. Transgenic microbes for degradation of microplastics
33. Transgenic plant technology for cleanup of emerging contaminants in
wildlife habitat
34. Transgenic tobacco for remediation of emerging contaminants
35. Transgenic energy crops for remediation of Emerging contaminants
Section 8: Bioaccumulative and biotoxic Per- and polyfluorinated chemicals as
Environmental nightmares
36. Phytoremediation of Per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS): Progress
and Challenges
37. Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Biotoxic and bioaccumulative
wonder chemicals in the Environment: Degradation to remediation
Section 9: Solutions for emerging contaminants in drinking and wastewater
38. Modular solutions for managing drinking water emerging contaminants
39. Genetical engineering approach for remediation of emerging contaminants
in Industrial wastewater
Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad is currently Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India in various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist in several international universities. Larry E. Erickson received doctorate in 1964 in chemical engineering from Kansas State University. He has been a member of the chemical engineering faculty at K-State since 1964. In 1967-68 he conducted research in biochemical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and introduced courses in biochemical engineering and bioseparations at K-State. From 1985-2018, he has provided leadership for hazardous substance research at K-State. From 1989-2003, he was director of the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center, a consortium of universities with headquarters at K-State. In order to advance pollution prevention and improve environmental management, he introduced seminars in hazardous waste engineering, air quality, and sustainability. He has worked with more than 70 graduate students, coauthored more than 450 papers, traveled professionally to more than 25 countries, and participated in more than $50 million of funded research projects. In January 2015, he transitioned to emeritus professor of chemical engineering. He has been employed by Mobil Oil Company, ESSO Research and Engineering Co., Humble Oil and Refining Company. He has been a visiting faculty member at MIT, University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Pushchino, Russia, and Institute of Microbiology, Prague, Czech Republic. Dr. Abin Sebastian is working as assistant professor in the Department of Botany, St. Georges College, Aruvithura affiliated to Mahathma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. He is expertise in ecophysiology of plants and environmental biotechnology. His studies pointed out the role of iron and iron transporters involved in detoxification of cadmium in rice plants. He synthesized magnetic iron nanoparticles that efficiently remove heavy metals from aqueous media, and ameliorate heavy metal stress in plants. He was awarded with outstanding student scholar award during IBC 2017, China, and received fellowship from DAAD, Germany and UGC, India for conducting doctoral and post-doctoral research. Dr Sailaja Elchuri completed her Doctoral studies in molecular regulation of light stress in C4 plants under eminent plant physiologist Prof V.S. Ramadas. Significant contribution included paper submission to volume dedicated to Prof Daniel Arnon. Completed post-Doctoral studies at Arizona State University examining UV light effects on canopy photosynthesis. Later studies included animal models of disease and nanotechnology at Stanford University. Recent focus has been to use one health approaches for Human, animal, and plant triad. She used Omic approaches and green Nanotechnology to study human disease progression and therapy for safer environment. She is reviewer for several journals in Omic studies and Nanotechnology. Published 55 papers in peer reviewed journals and 5 book chapters.
