This two-volume work is an effort to provide a common platform to environmental engineers, microbiologists, chemical scientists, plant physiologists and molecular biologists working with a common aim of sustainable solutions to varied environmental contamination issues. Chapters explore biological and non-biological strategies to minimize environmental pollution. Highly readable entries attempt to close the knowledge gap between plant - microbial associations and environmental remediation.
Volume 1 focuses on important concepts such as biological remediation strategies to enhance soil quality at contaminated sites; synergistic influences of tolerant plants and rhizospheric microbial strains on the remediation of pesticide contaminated soil, and the role of plant types such as hyperaccumulator plants in the cleanup of polluted soils. Readers will discover mechanisms and underlying natural inherent traits of various plants and microbes for tolerating, excluding, remediating, accumulating, or metabolizing a variety of pollutants.
Chapter
1. Enhancing the cleanup of environmental pollutants and the
role of biological approaches: an introduction.
Chapter
2. Degradation of
the dinitrotoluene isomers 2,4 and 2,6-DNT: appraising the role of
microorganisms.
Chapter
3. Bioremediation approaches for petroleum
hydrocarbons-contaminated environments.
Chapter
4. Bioremediation of
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons-polluted soils at laboratory and field
scale: a review of the literature on plants and microorganisms.
Chapter
5.
Organic micropollutants in the environment: ecotoxicity potential and methods
for remediation.
Chapter
6. The contributions of mycorrhizas in the
mineralization of organic contaminants.
Chapter
7. Remediation of mine
tailings and fly ash dump sites: role of Poaceae family members and aromatic
grasses.
Chapter
8. Bioremediation of sulfide mine tailings: response of
different soil fractions.
Chapter
9. Remediation of polluted soils through
hyperaccumulator plants.
Chapter
10. Metal bioaccumulation by plants in
roadside soils: perspectives for bioindication and phytoremediation.
Chapter
11. Soil quality protection at heavy metal-contaminated manufactured gas
plant sites: role of biological remediation.
Chapter
12. Plant physiology
processes associated with ´Plant-Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria´
bioassays for the enhance of heavy metals removal.
Chapter
13. Exploiting
nitrogen-fixing rhizobial symbionts genetic resources for improving
phytoremediation of contaminated soils.
Chapter
14. Environmental
bioremediation by biosorption and bioaccumulation: principles and
applications.
Naser A. Anjum is a researcher at CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies & Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Portugal. Dr. Sarvajeet S. Gill is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University in Haryana, India. Dr. Narendra Tuteja is a Professor and Director of Amity Institute of Microbial Technology (AIMT), Amity University in Uttar Pradesh, India.
