[HTML][HTML] Phytoremediation: Mechanisms, plant selection and enhancement by natural and synthetic agents

A Kafle, A Timilsina, A Gautam, K Adhikari… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
With current intensive agriculture practices and industrialization, pollution of natural
resources like land and water with heavy metals, organic pollutants, radionuclides …

Approaches for enhanced phytoextraction of heavy metals

A Bhargava, FF Carmona, M Bhargava… - Journal of environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
The contamination of the environment with toxic metals has become a worldwide problem.
Metal toxicity affects crop yields, soil biomass and fertility. Soils polluted with heavy metals …

Phytoremediation Potential of Aquatic Macrophyte, Azolla

A Sood, PL Uniyal, R Prasanna, AS Ahluwalia - Ambio, 2012 - Springer
Aquatic macrophytes play an important role in the structural and functional aspects of
aquatic ecosystems by altering water movement regimes, providing shelter to fish and …

A framework for soil microbial ecology in urban ecosystems

A Nugent, SD Allison - Ecosphere, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nearly all ecosystems host diverse microbiomes that support vital ecosystem processes. At
the same time, these ecosystems and their microbiomes are increasingly altered by human …

Rhizobium rhizogenes-mediated root proliferation in Cd/Zn hyperaccumulator Sedum alfredii and its effects on plant growth promotion, root exudates and metal …

ZA Sahito, A Zehra, S Chen, S Yu, L Tang, Z Ali… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, Rhizobium rhizogenes-mediated root proliferation system in Sedum alfredii has
been established. Twenty strains of R. rhizogenes were screened for root proliferation. A …

Advances and applications of water phytoremediation: A potential biotechnological approach for the treatment of heavy metals from contaminated water

CR Delgado-González, A Madariaga-Navarrete… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Potable and good-quality drinking water availability is a serious global concern, since
several pollution sources significantly contribute to low water quality. Amongst these …

Popular wood and sugarcane bagasse biochars reduced uptake of chromium and lead by lettuce from mine-contaminated soil

AZ Khan, S Khan, T Ayaz, ML Brusseau, MA Khan… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
As a result of metal mining activities in Pakistan, toxic heavy metals (HMs) such as chromium
(Cr) and lead (Pb) often enter the soil ecosystem, accumulate in food crops and cause …

Aquatic microphylla Azolla: a perspective paradigm for sustainable agriculture, environment and global climate change

B Kollah, AK Patra, SR Mohanty - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2016 - Springer
This review addresses the perspectives of Azolla as a multifaceted aquatic resource to
ensure ecosystem sustainability. Nitrogen fixing potential of cyanobacterial symbiont varies …

Spatial heterogeneity of heavy metal contamination in soils and plants in Hefei, China

Q Zhang, R Yu, S Fu, Z Wu, HYH Chen, H Liu - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
The contamination of soil and plants with heavy metals, which has detrimental influences on
plant growth, water purification, and food safety, has emerged as a serious global issue. To …

Ecological risk and pollution history of heavy metals in Nansha mangrove, South China

Q Wu, NFY Tam, JYS Leung, X Zhou, J Fu… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Owing to the Industrial Revolution in the late 1970s, heavy metal pollution has been
regarded as a serious threat to mangrove ecosystems in the region of the Pearl River …