Pollution by heavy metals has been identified as a global threat since the inception of
industrial revolution. Heavy metal contamination induces serious health and environmental …

Level of anthropogenic chemicals is increasing day by day in the environment due to
various human activities. Elimination of such chemicals is essentially required to save life on …

Heavy metal contamination of soil as a result of, for example, mining operations, evokes
worldwide concern. The use of selected metal-accumulating plants to clean up heavy metal …

Anthropogenic activities have considerably altered the composition and functions of the soil.
Remediation of contaminated soils using plants, microbes and other biological systems to …

The remediation of metal-contaminated soil is generally achieved by technical solutions.
Bioremediation approaches include phytoremediation with plants taking up metals from the …

Heavy metal contamination due to natural and anthropogenic sources is a global
environmental concern. Release of heavy metals without proper treatment poses a serious …

Soils polluted with heavy metals have become common across the globe due to increase in
geologic and anthropogenic activities. Plants growing on these soils show a reduction in …

The inexorable flow of heavy metals such as (Pb), mercury (Hg), chromium (Cr), zinc (Zn),
uranium (Ur), selenium (Se), silver (Ag), gold (Au), cadmium (Cd), nickel (Ni), and arsenic …

Anthropogenic activities such as urbanization, industrialization, technological escalation,
unsafe agricultural activities and natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions have led to the …

Increasing water crisis across the globe, farmers are forced to use marginal quality water for
agricultural activities mainly for crop production. Marginal quality water contains lots of …