Heavy-metal contaminants are one of the most relevant problems of contemporary
agriculture. High toxicity and the ability to accumulate in soils and crops pose a serious …

Nowadays, due to industrialization and extraction ofnatural resources, soil and water
pollution is one of the major globalconcerns. During the recent era of environmental …

Soils have been submitted to several contaminants that vary in concentration and
composition. Heavy metals can be widely spread and accumulated in those environments …

Soils are polluted by both organic and inorganic substances. Plants growing in polluted soils
suffer damages such as leaf rolls, chlorosis, growth inhibition, root tips browning, and death …

Soils polluted with heavy metals have become common across the globe due to increase in
geologic and anthropogenic activities. Plants growing on these soils show a reduction in …

Remediation of heavy metal-contaminated soils has been drawing our attention toward it for
quite some time now and a need for developing new methods toward reclamation has come …

The use of microbes to change the concentration of heavy metals in soil and improve the
ability of plants to deal with elevated metals concentrations has significant economic and …

The utilization of organisms, primarily microbes, to clean up contaminated soils, aquifers,
sludges, residues, and air, known as “bioremediation”, is a rapidly changing and expanding …

Contamination of soil environment by hydrocarbons (mostly petroleum hydrocarbons) is
becoming prevalent across the globe. This is probably due to heavy dependence on …

Anthropogenic exercises as well as industrial enterprise and agricultural practices contribute
considerably to the degradation and contamination of environment that considerably affects …