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

PBAN Kumar, V Dushenkov, H Motto… - Environmental science & …, 1995 - ACS Publications
… contaminated soil accumulate large amounts of heavy metals in their roots and shoots. …
plant able to accumulate heavy metals is identified. Therefore, the ability of various crop plants to …

Rhizofiltration: the use of plants to remove heavy metals from aqueous streams

V Dushenkov, PBAN Kumar, H Motto… - Environmental science & …, 1995 - ACS Publications
Heavy metal pollution of water Is a major environmental problem facing the modern world.
Rhizofiltration—the use of plant roots to remove heavy metals … of terrestrial plants have an …

[PDF][PDF] Effect of heavy metals on plants: an overview

A Asati, M Pichhode, K Nikhil - International Journal of Application …, 2016 - researchgate.net
plants roots are the primary contact site for heavy metal ions. Whereas, in aquatic systems
plant body is exposed to these ions and heavy metalsheavy metals and its effect on the plant

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
… phytoremediation uses plants to decontaminate heavy metal toxic soil using plants as metal
… for careful selection of plants that can be used to treat certain heavy metals. Following these …

What are “heavy metals” in plant sciences?

KJ Appenroth - Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2010 - Springer
… However, in Plant Sciences, the term is so widely used that it is hardly … of heavy metals for
use in Plant Sciences. 1st subgroup: all transition elements except La and Ac (Transition metals

Soil and plant factors influencing the accumulation of heavy metals by plants.

DA Cataldo, RE Wildung - Environmental health perspectives, 1978 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
… The use of plants to monitor heavy metal pollution in the terrestrial environment must be …
plant variables. To be detectable in plants, pollutant sources must significantly increase the plant

[PDF][PDF] The use of plants accumulating heavy metals for detoxification of chemically polluted soils

J Antonkiewicz, C Jasiewicz - Electronic Journal of Polish …, 2002 - ejpau.media.pl
… : increased concentration of heavy metals in the soil corresponds to higher content of
heavy metals in the plants. Significant differences were observed for the plant species from …

A review of phytoremediation technology: heavy metals uptake by plants

A Sumiahadi, R Acar - IOP conference series: earth and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
… list of several plants reported for heavy metals remediation. Each … plant has also different
responses to different heavy metals exposure. Several plants are sensitive while other plants

Heavy metals

S Jena, SK Dey - American Journal of Environment Studies, 2017 - ajpojournals.org
plants can be used successfully to clean up heavy metal polluted soils if their biomass and
metal … feasible, the plants must (1) extract large concentrations of heavy metals into their roots, …

Use of aquatic plants in removing heavy metals from wastewater

B Dhir - International Journal of Environmental Engineering, 2010 - inderscienceonline.com
… Rhizofiltration is the use of plant roots to remove heavy metals from … is the use of plants to
immobilise heavy metals in soil and phytoextraction is the use of plants to remove heavy metals