Environmental pollution has been on the rise in the past few decades owing to increased
human activities on energy reservoirs, unsafe agricultural practices and rapid …

Several members of the cucurbit family (Cucurbitaceae) have a great potential to take up
highly hydrophobic compounds, such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), from …

Today's industrialized world is facing a major environmental problem due to contamination
of environmental sites, that is, air, soil, sediments, groundwater, and surface water, with toxic …

Evironmental pollution is a major public health concern due to the detrimental effects of
pollutants to humans and to other living organisms. Chemical and physical methods of …

The interrelationships between microbes and plants and the potential of utilizing these
relationships to improve the dissipation of pollutants have been widely discussed during the …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are considered hazardous pollutants due to their
negative impact on the environment and human health. PAHs can accumulate and be …

The use of plant growth regulators to alleviate PAH phytotoxicity is an alternative choice to
increase the efficient of PAH phytoremediation. In this study, the capacity of auxin and …

Growing population, increase in urbanization and escalating standards of living have
contributed to substantial increases in both quantity and quality of generated wastes (51 …

The use of various agrochemicals or pesticides has undoubtedly increased agricultural crop
productivity and protect crops from different types of pests and diseases. It also provides an …

The ability of butterfly pea (Clitoria ternatea) and yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus) to
stimulate the removal of anthracene and pyrene from contaminated soil was investigated. Of …