The contamination of the environment with toxic metals has become a worldwide problem.
Metal toxicity affects crop yields, soil biomass and fertility. Soils polluted with heavy metals …

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 …

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

The removal of inorganic contaminants by plants is termed phytoextraction. Recent studies
have looked at the feasibility of phytoextraction, and demonstrate that both good biomass …

Phytoremediation is an emerging technology that uses plants to clean up pollutants (metals
and organics) from the environment. Within this field of phytoremediation, the utilization of …

Plants are able to extract metal (loid) contaminants from the soil or water through their roots
and translocate them to harvestable aerial shoots. Of late, this plant potential has been used …

Hyperaccumulators concentrate trace metals and heavy metals in their shoots when grown
in metal-contaminated soils and these trace metal-loaded plants may be removed by …

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 …

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 …

Mining, industry, and agriculture have led to the accelerated release of metals into
ecosystems, causing serious environmental problems and posing a threat to human and …