Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals from the Biosphere Perspective and Solutions

Mohan, Indica; Goria, Kajol; Dhar, Sunil; Kothari, Richa; Bhau, Brijmohan Singh; Pathania, Deepak

doi:10.1002/9781119693635.ch5

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“…Sunflower, tobacco, and spinach exhibit promising potential in removing Pb from water. 91 Phytostabilization. Plant roots can limit the movement of heavy metals by phytostabilization, a process that reduces toxic effects.…”

Section: Mechanism Of Phytoremediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Heavy Metal Pollution in the Environment and Its Impact on Health: Exploring Green Technology for Remediation

Das,

Sultana,

Ndhlala

et al. 2023

Environ�Health�Insights

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Along with expanding urbanization and industrialization, environmental pollution which negatively affects the surroundings, has been rising quickly. As a result, induces heavy metal contamination which poses a serious threat to living organisms of aquatic and soil ecosystems. Therefore, they are a need to ameliorate the effects cost by cost pollution on the environment. In this review, we explore methods employed to mitigate the effects caused by heavy metals on the environment. Many techniques employed to manage environmental pollution are tedious and very costly, necessitating the use of alternative management strategies to resolve this challenge. In this concept, bioremediation is viewed as a future technique, due to its environmental friendliness and cost-effective measures aligned with sustainable or climate-smart agriculture to manage contaminants in the environment. The technique involves the use of living entities such as bacteria, fungi, and plants to deteriorate toxic substances from the rhizosphere. Currently, bioremediation is thought to be the most practical, dependable, environmentally benign, and long-lasting solution. Although bioremediation involves different techniques, they are still a need to find the most efficient method for removing toxic substances from the environment. This review focuses on the origins of heavy metal pollution, delves into cost-effective and green technological approaches for eliminating heavy metal pollutants from the environment, and discusses the impact of these pollutants on human health.

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Section: Mechanism Of Phytoremediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Heavy Metal Pollution in the Environment and Its Impact on Health: Exploring Green Technology for Remediation

Das,

Sultana,

Ndhlala

et al. 2023

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“…Additionally, phytoremediation has been studied for plant propensity to filter ambient air and exchange gases with their surroundings [63]. The large biologically active surface areas of plants have added advantage in capturing different air pollutants through absorption, transport, and deposition of organic pollutants in the rhizosphere and phyllosphere [64]. For the elimination of air pollutants, the photosynthetic systems of C3, C4, crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM), and facultative CAM plants have been studied under various circumstances [65].…”

Section: Phytoremediation and Its Mechanismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Phytoremediation toward Air Pollutants: Latest Status and Current Developments

Partap,

Sharma,

et al. 2023

Environmental Sciences

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In recent years, air pollution has become one of the major environmental concerns that threaten health of the living organisms and its surroundings. Increasing urbanization, industrialization, and other anthropogenic activities impaired the air quality of indoor and outdoor environment. However, global organizations are focusing on ecological and biological means of solutions to reduce or eliminate dangerous contaminants from ecosystems in a sustainable manner. In this fact, plants are capable of improving or cleansing air quality and reduce the concentration of harmful pollutants from the environment through various remediation processes. Plants interact with air pollutants and fix them through various biological mechanisms in both associated and non-associated forms of microbes. In association forms, the mutualistic interaction of plant and microbes leads to higher growth efficiency of plants and results in enhanced pollutant degradation in rhizosphere as well as phyllosphere. In this background, the book chapter provides a comprehensive discussion of the existing literature and recent advances in phytoremediation process for the mitigation of harmful air pollutants. The role of indoor plants and aids for the enhancement of phytoremediation process towards air pollutants are also discussed.

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