Biological and green remediation of heavy metal contaminated water and soils: A state-of-the-art review

A Sarker, MA Al Masud, DM Deepo, K Das, R Nandi… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Contamination of the natural ecosystem by heavy metals, organic pollutants, and hazardous
waste severely impacts on health and survival of humans, animals, plants, and …

Soil microbiome engineering for sustainability in a changing environment

JK Jansson, R McClure, RG Egbert - Nature Biotechnology, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in microbial ecology and synthetic biology have the potential to mitigate
damage caused by anthropogenic activities that are deleteriously impacting Earth's soil …

[HTML][HTML] Genetically engineered microorganisms for environmental remediation

H Rafeeq, N Afsheen, S Rafique, A Arshad, M Intisar… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
In the recent era, the increasing persistence of hazardous contaminants is badly affecting
the globe in many ways. Due to high environmental contamination, almost every second …

Plants—Microorganisms-based bioremediation for heavy metal cleanup: Recent developments, phytoremediation techniques, regulation mechanisms, and molecular …

A Raklami, A Meddich, K Oufdou, M Baslam - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rapid industrialization, mine tailings runoff, and agricultural activities are often detrimental to
soil health and can distribute hazardous metal (loid) s into the soil environment, with harmful …

Strategies for microbial bioremediation of environmental pollutants from industrial wastewater: A sustainable approach

A Saravanan, PS Kumar, PA Duc, G Rangasamy - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Heavy metals are hazardous and bring about critical exposure risks to humans and animals,
even at low concentrations. An assortment of approaches has been attempted to remove the …

Removal of toxic heavy metals using genetically engineered microbes: Molecular tools, risk assessment and management strategies

A Saravanan, PS Kumar, B Ramesh, S Srinivasan - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The direct release of industrial effluent into the water and other anthropogenic activities
causes water pollution. Heavy metal ions are the primary contaminant in the industrial …

Exploring the effectiveness of microbial fuel cell for the degradation of organic pollutants coupled with bio-energy generation

MO Idris, HC Kim, AA Yaqoob, MNM Ibrahim - … Energy Technologies and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ongoing global industrialization has contributed in a significant increase in the release
of toxic pollutants into the environment, the majority of which are primarily organic pollutions …

The environmental distribution and removal of emerging pollutants, highlighting the importance of using microbes as a potential degrader: A review

HA Ahmad, S Ahmad, Q Cui, Z Wang, H Wei… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Emerging pollutants (EPs) create a worldwide concern owing to their low concentration and
severe toxicity to the receptors. The prominent emerging pollutants categories as …

Immobilization of enzymes for bioremediation: A future remedial and mitigating strategy

P Somu, S Narayanasamy, LA Gomez… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the years, extensive urbanization and industrialization have led to xenobiotics
contamination of the environment and also posed a severe threat to human health. Although …

Review on bioremediation technologies of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from soil: Mechanisms and future perspective

F Ansari, A Ahmad, M Rafatullah - International Biodeterioration & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) are a large class of organic compounds that contain two
or more fused aromatic rings form by the incomplete combustion of carbonaceous material …