Biological and green remediation of heavy metal contaminated water and soils: A state-of-the-art review

A Sarker, MA Al Masud, DM Deepo, K Das, R Nandi… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Contamination of the natural ecosystem by heavy metals, organic pollutants, and hazardous
waste severely impacts on health and survival of humans, animals, plants, and …

A review on heavy metal pollution, toxicity and remedial measures: Current trends and future perspectives

KH Vardhan, PS Kumar, RC Panda - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2019 - Elsevier
Water is an exceptionally essential source for the presence of life on the earth. The water
quality has seriously affected because of the overgrowth of the population, human activities …

Biosorption of heavy metals by microorganisms: Evaluation of different underlying mechanisms

AK Priya, L Gnanasekaran, K Dutta, S Rajendran… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Globally, ecotoxicologists, environmental biologists, biochemists, pathologists, and other
experts are concerned about environmental contamination. Numerous pollutants, such as …

The amazing potential of fungi: 50 ways we can exploit fungi industrially

KD Hyde, J Xu, S Rapior, R Jeewon, S Lumyong… - Fungal Diversity, 2019 - Springer
Fungi are an understudied, biotechnologically valuable group of organisms. Due to the
immense range of habitats that fungi inhabit, and the consequent need to compete against a …

Recent advances in bioremediation of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants: A review

MA Tufail, J Iltaf, T Zaheer, L Tariq, MB Amir… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants are causing detrimental effects on the
environment. The seepage of heavy metals through untreated industrial waste destroys the …

Plants—Microorganisms-based bioremediation for heavy metal cleanup: Recent developments, phytoremediation techniques, regulation mechanisms, and molecular …

A Raklami, A Meddich, K Oufdou, M Baslam - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rapid industrialization, mine tailings runoff, and agricultural activities are often detrimental to
soil health and can distribute hazardous metal (loid) s into the soil environment, with harmful …

Recent advances in microbial-assisted remediation of cadmium-contaminated soil

U Zulfiqar, FU Haider, MF Maqsood, W Mohy-Ud-Din… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Soil contamination with cadmium (Cd) is a severe concern for the developing world due to
its non-biodegradability and significant potential to damage the ecosystem and associated …

Bioremediation options for heavy metal pollution

M Kapahi, S Sachdeva - Journal of health and pollution, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
Background. Rapid industrialization and anthropogenic activities such as the unmanaged
use of agro-chemicals, fossil fuel burning and dumping of sewage sludge have caused soils …

Sustainable and efficient technologies for removal and recovery of toxic and valuable metals from wastewater: Recent progress, challenges, and future perspectives

A Abidli, Y Huang, ZB Rejeb, A Zaoui, CB Park - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to their numerous effects on human health and the natural environment, water
contamination with heavy metals and metalloids, caused by their extensive use in various …

Metal-Fungus interaction: Review on cellular processes underlying heavy metal detoxification and synthesis of metal nanoparticles

E Priyadarshini, SS Priyadarshini, BG Cousins… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The most adverse outcome of increasing industrialization is contamination of the ecosystem
with heavy metals. Toxic heavy metals possess a deleterious effect on all forms of biota; …