Mine tailing disposal sites: contamination problems, remedial options and phytocaps for sustainable remediation

O Karaca, C Cameselle, KR Reddy - Reviews in Environmental Science …, 2018 - Springer
Mining practices and the absence of proper mine land reclamation has led to heavy metal
contaminated sites with serious impact on the ecosystems and risk for human health. The …

The use of comet assay in plant toxicology: recent advances

CLV Santos, B Pourrut… - Frontiers in Genetics, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The systematic study of genotoxicity in plants induced by contaminants and other stress
agents has been hindered to date by the lack of reliable and robust biomarkers. The comet …

Impacts of water deficit and post-drought irrigation on transpiration rate, root activity, and biomass yield of Festuca arundinacea during phytoextraction

X Peng, J Li, L Sun, Y Gao, M Cao, J Luo - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Water deficit is a hazardous threat to phytoremediation, while the photosynthetic efficiency of
plant leaves can rapidly recover after post-drought irrigation, thereby enhancing the root …

Vetiver grass: an environment clean-up tool for heavy metal contaminated iron ore mine-soil

R Banerjee, P Goswami, K Pathak, A Mukherjee - Ecological Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Aims Vetiver grass–Chyrsopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty is a known plant tolerant
to heavy metals and its use as an alternative method for rehabilitation of iron ore mine-soil …

Potential of Vetiver grass for the phytoremediation of a real multi-contaminated soil, assisted by electrokinetic

R Siyar, FD Ardejani, M Farahbakhsh, P Norouzi… - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Phytoremediation assisted by electrokinetic is a potential technology for remediation of
contaminated soil, but little is known about its application on real contaminated soils. This …

Phytoremediation of metals using vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty) grown under different levels of red mud in sludge amended soil

M Gautam, M Agrawal - Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 2017 - Elsevier
Globally, 120 million tonnes of red mud is generated whose disposal and storage occupy
large areas of potentially important arable lands. Red mud dumps are physically …

Recent advances in phytoremediation technology

P Dhanwal, A Kumar, S Dudeja, V Chhokar… - Advances in …, 2017 - Springer
The rapid increase in the environmental contaminants due to various anthropogenic
activities has become a serious issue worldwide. New and efficient measures are explored …

A scoping review of recent advances in the application of comet assay to Allium cepa roots

C Alias, I Zerbini, D Feretti - Environmental and Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The comet assay is a sensitive method for the evaluation of DNA damages and DNA repair
capacity at single‐cell level. Allium cepa is a well‐established plant model for toxicological …

Buffer green patches around urban road network as a tool for sustainable soil management

S Petrova, B Nikolov, I Velcheva, N Angelov… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Urban areas are facing a range of environmental challenges including air, water and soil
pollution as a result of industrial, domestic and traffic emissions. In addition, global climate …

Investigation of arsenic accumulation and biochemical response of in vitro developed Vetiveria zizanoides plants

S Singh, S Sounderajan, K Kumar… - … and environmental safety, 2017 - Elsevier
Vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanoides L. Nash) is found to be a suitable candidate for the
phytoremediation of heavy metals. An investigation of arsenic (As) accumulation …