Phytoextraction, the use of plants to extract heavy metals from contaminated soils, could be
an interesting alternative to conventional remediation technologies. However, calcareous …

High biomass producing plant species, such as Helianthus annuus, have potential for
removing large amounts of trace metals by harvesting the aboveground biomass if sufficient …

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 …

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 …

The increase in heavy metal terrestrial ecosystems' contamination through anthropogenic
activities is a widespread and serious global problem due to their various environmental and …

Soils can be contaminated with heavy metals from various human activities and a num-ber
of ex situ and in situ techniques have been developed to remove heavy metals from …

Synthetic chelates such as ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) have been shown to
enhance phytoextraction of some heavy metals from contaminated soil. In a soil column …

Phytoremediation is a naturally slow process limited by low availability of target metals in
soils. Adsorption− desorption at the particle–solution interface are the most responsible …

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 …

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 …