An ideal plant for environmental cleanup can be envisioned as one with high biomass
production, combined with superior capacity for pollutant tolerance, accumulation, and/or …

Heavy metal and metalloid contamination of the environment due to natural processes,
industrialization, and anthropogenic activities pose a serious problem, threatening the …

Bioremediation is gaining a lot of importance in recent times as an alternate technology for
removal of elemental pollutants in soil and water, which require effective methods of …

Contamination by heavy metals including As, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Ni and Zn in
agricultural fields is a global safety issue. Indeed, excessive accumulations of metals have …

Heavy metals (HM) are a unique class of toxicants since they cannot be broken down to non-
toxic forms. Concentration of these heavy metals has increased drastically, posing problems …

The phytoremediation is an environment friendly, green technology that is cost effective and
energetically inexpensive. Metal hyperaccumulator plants are used to remove metal from …

Metal concentrations in soils are locally quite high, and are still increasing due to many
human activities, leading to elevated risk for health and the environment. Phytoremediation …

Phytoremediation has gained the attention all over the world as one of the most cost-
effective and sustainable approaches for removal, sequestration, and/or detoxification of …

The genetic engineering of plants to facilitate the reclamation of soils and waters
contaminated with inorganic pollutants is a relatively new and evolving field, benefiting from …

A ISTRA ("|" Metal hyperaccumulation is a characteristic present in over 500 plant species
and approximately in 0.2% of all angiosperms. Hyperaccumulators are model plants for …