Chemically assisted phytoextraction: a review of potential soil amendments for increasing plant uptake of heavy metals

E Meers, FMG Tack, S Van Slycken… - International Journal …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The contamination of soils by trace metals has been an unfortunate sideeffect of
industrialization. Some of these contaminants can interfere with vulnerable enduses of soil …

Enhanced phytoextraction: I. Effect of EDTA and citric acid on heavy metal mobility in a calcareous soil

E Meers, E Lesage, S Lamsal, M Hopgood… - International Journal …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Phytoextraction, the use of plants to extract heavy metals from contaminated soils, could be
an interesting alternative to conventional remediation technologies. However, calcareous …

Phytoextraction: a review on enhanced metal availability and plant accumulation

CWA Nascimento, B Xing - Scientia agricola, 2006 - SciELO Brasil
Phytoextraction has emerged as a novel approach to clean up metal-polluted soils in which
plants are used to transfer toxic metals from soils to shoots. This review provides a synthesis …

Chelate assisted phytoextraction of heavy metals from soil. Effect, mechanism, toxicity, and fate of chelating agents

MWH Evangelou, M Ebel, A Schaeffer - Chemosphere, 2007 - Elsevier
The low-cost, plant-based phytoextraction technique has often been described as a
promising technique to remediate heavy metal contaminated agricultural land. The …

EDTA-enhanced phytoremediation of heavy metals: a review

M Shahid, A Austruy, G Echevarria… - Soil and Sediment …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The increase in heavy metal terrestrial ecosystems' contamination through anthropogenic
activities is a widespread and serious global problem due to their various environmental and …

Assisting phytoremediation of heavy metals using chemical amendments

MM Hasan, MN Uddin, I Ara-Sharmeen, H F. Alharby… - Plants, 2019 - mdpi.com
Phytoremediation is one of the safer, economical, and environment-friendly techniques in
which plants are used to recover polluted soils, particularly those containing toxic organic …

Comparison of EDTA and EDDS as potential soil amendments for enhanced phytoextraction of heavy metals

E Meers, A Ruttens, MJ Hopgood, D Samson… - Chemosphere, 2005 - Elsevier
Phytoextraction has been proposed as an alternative remediation technology for soils
polluted with heavy metals or radionuclides, but is generally conceived as too slow working …

EDTA-assisted Pb phytoextraction

E Meers, M Qadir, P De Caritat, FMG Tack, G Du Laing… - Chemosphere, 2009 - Elsevier
Pb is one of the most widespread and metal pollutants in soil. It is generally concentrated in
surface layers with only a minor portion of the total metal found in soil solution …

Phytoextraction: the use of plants to remove heavy metals from soil

Z Ghori, H Iftikhar, MF Bhatti, I Sharma, AG Kazi… - Plant metal …, 2016 - Elsevier
The continuous increase in industrial activities has contaminated the soil with heavy metals
such as cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury, lead, arsenic, nickel, and zinc and are …

Enhancing phytoextraction: the effect of chemical soil manipulation on mobility, plant accumulation, and leaching of heavy metals

U Schmidt - Journal of Environmental Quality, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
For heavy metal–contaminated agricultural land, low‐cost, plant‐based phytoextraction
measures can be a key element for a new land management strategy. When agents are …