Phytoremediation of contaminated soils by heavy metals and PAHs. A brief review

A Cristaldi, GO Conti, EH Jho, P Zuccarello… - … Technology & Innovation, 2017 - Elsevier
Acute and diffuse contamination of soil by organic and inorganic pollutants causes wide
concerns and intentional or accidental introduction of these substances poses serious …

Efficient soil microorganisms: a new dimension for sustainable agriculture and environmental development

JS Singh, VC Pandey, DP Singh - Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 2011 - Elsevier
Sustainable agriculture is vital in today's world as it offers the potential to meet our
agricultural needs, something that conventional agriculture fails to do. This type of …

Using soil bacteria to facilitate phytoremediation

BR Glick - Biotechnology advances, 2010 - Elsevier
In the past twenty years or so, researchers have endeavored to utilize plants to facilitate the
removal of both organic and inorganic contaminants from the environment, especially from …

Quorum sensing for population-level control of bacteria and potential therapeutic applications

S Wu, J Liu, C Liu, A Yang, J Qiao - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Quorum sensing (QS), a microbial cell-to-cell communication process, dynamically regulates
a variety of metabolism and physiological activities. In this review, we provide an update on …

Phytoremediation and rhizoremediation of organic soil contaminants: potential and challenges

KE Gerhardt, XD Huang, BR Glick, BM Greenberg - Plant science, 2009 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades there has been avid interest in developing in situ strategies for
remediation of environmental contaminants. Major foci have been on persistent organic …

Phylloremediation of air pollutants: exploiting the potential of plant leaves and leaf-associated microbes

X Wei, S Lyu, Y Yu, Z Wang, H Liu, D Pan… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Air pollution is air contaminated by anthropogenic or naturally occurring substances in high
concentrations for a prolonged time, resulting in adverse effects on human comfort and …

[HTML][HTML] Bioremediation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) using rhizosphere technology

S Bisht, P Pandey, B Bhargava, S Sharma… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
The remediation of polluted sites has become a priority for society because of increase in
quality of life standards and the awareness of environmental issues. Over the past few …

Rhizoremediation: a beneficial plant-microbe interaction

I Kuiper, EL Lagendijk, GV Bloemberg… - Molecular plant …, 2004 - Am Phytopath Society
Worldwide, contamination of soil and ground water is a severe problem. The negative effects
of pollutants on the environment and on human health are diverse and depend on the …

Toxin-antitoxin systems influence biofilm and persister cell formation and the general stress response

X Wang, TK Wood - Applied and environmental microbiology, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
In many genomes, toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems have been identified; however, their role in
cell physiology has been unclear. Here we examine the evidence that TA systems are …

Pesticide relevance and their microbial degradation: a-state-of-art

JP Verma, DK Jaiswal, R Sagar - Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2014 - Springer
The extensive use of pesticide causes imbalance in properties of soil, water and air
environments due to having problem of natural degradation. Such chemicals create diverse …