Hazardous heavy metals contamination of vegetables and food chain: Role of sustainable remediation approaches-A review

S Kumar, S Prasad, KK Yadav, M Shrivastava… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
This review emphasizes the role of toxic metal remediation approaches due to their broad
sustainability and applicability. The rapid developmental processes can incorporate a large …

Lead toxicity in plants: Impacts and remediation

U Zulfiqar, M Farooq, S Hussain, M Maqsood… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lead (Pb) is the second most toxic heavy metal after arsenic (As), which has no role in
biological systems. Pb toxicity causes a range of damages to plants from germination to …

Phytoremediation of heavy metals—concepts and applications

H Ali, E Khan, MA Sajad - Chemosphere, 2013 - Elsevier
The mobilization of heavy metals by man through extraction from ores and processing for
different applications has led to the release of these elements into the environment. Since …

Factors affecting phytoextraction: a review

V Sheoran, AS Sheoran, P Poonia - Pedosphere, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Approaches for enhanced phytoextraction of heavy metals

A Bhargava, FF Carmona, M Bhargava… - Journal of environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Toxicity of Cadmium and nickel in the context of applied activated carbon biochar for improvement in soil fertility

AA Rahi, U Younis, N Ahmed, MA Ali, S Fahad… - Saudi Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Toxicity induced by heavy metals deteriorates soil fertility status. It also adversely affects the
growth and yield of crops. These heavy metals become part of the food chain when crops …

Managing environmental contamination through phytoremediation by invasive plants: A review

K Prabakaran, J Li, A Anandkumar, Z Leng, CB Zou… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Environmental degradation by contaminants is a serious concern in the developing world.
The remediation strategies to overcome the problem of environmental degradation should …

Biotechnological strategies applied to the decontamination of soils polluted with heavy metals

VN Kavamura, E Esposito - Biotechnology advances, 2010 - Elsevier
Soils have been submitted to several contaminants that vary in concentration and
composition. Heavy metals can be widely spread and accumulated in those environments …

Constructed wetlands for textile wastewater remediation: A review on concept, pollutant removal mechanisms, and integrated technologies for efficiency enhancement

R Sharma, P Malaviya - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Textile industries are among the ecologically unsustainable industries that release
voluminous wastewater threatening ecosystem health. The constructed wetlands (CWs) are …

Role of hyperaccumulators in phytoextraction of metals from contaminated mining sites: a review

V Sheoran, AS Sheoran, P Poonia - Critical Reviews in …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Accumulation of heavy metals in selective locations of the environment has been attracting
considerable public attention over the last decades. The conventional clean-up technologies …