With current intensive agriculture practices and industrialization, pollution of natural
resources like land and water with heavy metals, organic pollutants, radionuclides …

The global use of petroleum hydrocarbons for energy and raw materials in various
applications has increased with extensive release of a wide variety of contaminants into the …

Contaminant containment measures are often necessary to prevent or minimize offsite
movement of contaminated materials for disposal or other purposes when they can be …

Plants can interact with a variety of organic compounds, and thereby affect the fate and
transport of many environmental contaminants. Volatile organic compounds may be …

Phytoremediation the use of plants and their associated microbes for environmental
cleanup, the use of plants and their associated microbes for environmental cleanup, has …

Though several in-situ treatment methods exist to remediate polluted sites, selecting an
appropriate site-specific remediation technology is challenging and is critical for successful …

Although the term “endophyte” is most commonly associated with fungi, there is a significant
amount of literature pertaining to bacteria as endophytes as well, some of which are …

Plant uptake of organic chemicals is an important process when considering the risks
associated with land contamination, the role of vegetation in the global cycling of persistent …

This review addresses the global problem of heavymetal pollution originating from
increased industrialization and urbanization and its amelioration by using wetland plants …

Physical, chemical and biological processes interact and work in concert during attenuation
of organic chemicals in wetland systems. This review summarizes the recent progress made …