Food is the major cadmium (Cd)-exposure pathway from agricultural soils to humans and
other living entities and must be reduced in an effective way. A plant can select beneficial …

The pollution of soil, water, and air by potentially toxic trace elements poses risks to
environmental and human health. For this reason, many chemical, physical, and biological …

Phytoremediation of heavy metals: Recent techniques Page 1 African Journal of
Biotechnology Vol. 8 (6), pp. 921-928, 20 March, 2009 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB …

Phytoremediation is considered as a novel environmental friendly technology, which uses
plants to remove or immobilize heavy metals. The use of metal-resistant plant growth …

A greenhouse experiment was conducted to determine the phytotoxic effect of heavy metals
such as Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn on the growth of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus): on the seed …

A field experiment was conducted on the effect of biochar (BC) amendment on Cd uptake by
rice (Oryza sativa L.) in a contaminated paddy in 2009 and 2010. BC was applied as a basal …

Phytoextraction of heavy metal contaminated soils is a promising remediation technology.
Till now, more than several hundreds of hyperaccumulators or non-hyperaccumulators …

Application of biochar to soil can improve numerous physicochemical and biological
properties of the soil. The method for lead metal (Pb) remediation in soil is a challenge …

A variety of remediation approaches have been applied to the heavy metals-contaminated
soils, however, the immobilization of metals in co-contaminated soils still not cleared …

Remediation of metal contaminated media using orthophosphate fixation forms insoluble
and non-bioavailable salts from metal and phosphate sources. The main focus has been on …