Bioremediation and Phytoremediation: Technologies for Toxic Pollution

Human health and wildlife are both affected by environmental contaminants. Plant-based bioremediation offers a cost-effective, non-intrusive, and natural alternative to chemical contamination by using plants and associated soil microbes to help reduce contaminants and their effects on the environment. This new volume, Bioremediation and Phytoremediation: Technologies for Toxic Pollution, provides an informative overview of the emerging issues related to bioremediation and phytoremediation. The author explains key concepts and aspects that underlie environmental awareness that has resulted in regulatory measures aimed at rectifying past mistakes and at protecting the environment from future contamination and exploitation. He goes on to discuss alternative technologies for the removal of pollutants from the environment, restoring contaminated sites, and preventing further pollution is bioremediation. The multitude of bioremediation and phytoremediation technologies and methods covered include biochar for remediation, cyanobacteria, biosensors and bioindicators, rhizoremediation, and plant tissue culture studies such as dyes and plastics, mine waste, contaminated soil, heavy metals, wastewater, etc. As the use of bioremediation and phytoremediation technologies continues to be seen as an effective method to combat toxic pollution, this volume will be informative for research scholars and professors/researchers as well as for upper-level students in biotechnology, agriculture, botany, and environmental science.