Current status of biotechnological approaches to enhance the phytoremediation of heavy metals in India—A review

S Barathi, J Lee, R Venkatesan, AA Vetcher - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Rising waste construction, agricultural actions, and manufacturing sewages all contribute to
heavy metal accumulation in water resources. Humans consume heavy metals …

Immobilization of zinc and cadmium by biochar-based sulfidated nanoscale zero-valent iron in a co-contaminated soil: Performance, mechanism, and microbial …

J Zhang, X Yang, S Wang, T Li, W Li, B Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mining and smelting of mineral resources causes excessive accumulation of potentially toxic
metals (PTMs) in surrounding soils. Here, biochar-based sulfidated nanoscale zero-valent …

Phosphorus-enriched biochar for the remediation of heavy metal contaminated soil

C Peiris, YA Alahakoon, UM Arachchi, TE Mlsna… - Journal of Agriculture …, 2023 - Elsevier
Phosphorus-rich materials (PRMs) are widely used soil remediation agents because they
are biocompatible, abundant, non-toxic, and have a high affinity for heavy metals in soil …

Contribution of modified P-enriched biochar on pH buffering capacity of acidic soil

B Arwenyo, JJ Varco, A Dygert, S Brown… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biochar can directly hold cations in soil because of the negative charge that exists on its
surfaces. Besides, improving soil cation exchange capacity, the negative charges on biochar …

Remediation of lead and cadmium co-contaminated mining soil by phosphate-functionalized biochar: Performance, mechanism, and microbial response

J Zhang, Y Jiang, C Ding, S Wang, C Zhao, W Yin… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
The remediation of heavy metals contaminated soils is of great significance for reducing
their risk to human health. Here, pristine pinewood sawdust biochar (BC) and phosphate …

Efficient recovery of phosphate from urine using magnesite modified corn straw biochar and its potential application as fertilizer

Y Zhou, Z Liu, J Shan, C Wu, E Lichtfouse… - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conventional phosphate fertilization is costly, carbon intensive, induces water pollution, and
depletes natural phosphate ores, calling for alternative circular sources such as recycling …

Phosphorus release characterization of biochar loaded with inherent and exogenous phosphorus and impact on soil Pb immobilization

B Bao, H Cui, H Li, Y Fan, D Li, J Wei, J Zhou… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Phosphorus (P)-laden biochar has been widely used for environmental lead (Pb)
remediation, but the P release risk and their adsorption and immobilization effect on soil …

Effects of phosphate-solubilizing fungus Aspergillus flavus AF-LRH1 on promoting phosphorus solubilization, wheat growth and soil heavy metal remediation

K Xu, X Lv, F Yue, L Zhang, P Wang, ID Amoah… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Increasing nutrient supply level and eliminating pollution risk are essential to promote
farmland soil use. In the soil-plant nutrition cycle, phosphorus is a limiting nutrient, toxic …

Enhancing lead immobilization by biochar: creation of “surface barrier” via bio-treatment

H Hu, CS Tang, Z Shen, X Pan, K Gu, X Fan, C Lv… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
The long-term effectiveness of heavy metal immobilization is always a concern. This study
proposes a completely novel approach to enhance the stability of heavy metals by combined …

Bioimmobilization of lead in phosphate mining wasteland by isolated strain Citrobacter farmeri CFI-01

Y Li, S Guo, Y Zheng, J Yu, R Chi, C Xiao - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Industrial phosphate rock (PR) treatment has introduced lead (Pb) contamination into
phosphate mining wasteland, causing serious contamination. Although bioremediation is …