Phytoextraction of heavy metals: a promising tool for clean-up of polluted environment?

J Suman, O Uhlik, J Viktorova, T Macek - Frontiers in plant science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Pollution by heavy metals (HM) represents a serious threat for both the environment and
human health. Due to their elemental character, HM cannot be chemically degraded, and …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainability of phytoremediation: Post-harvest stratagems and economic opportunities for the produced metals contaminated biomass

AHA Khan, A Kiyani, M Santiago-Herrera… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heavy metals (HMs) are indestructible and non-biodegradable. Phytoremediation presents
an opportunity to transfer HMs from environmental matrices into plants, making it easy to …

The role of nickel (Ni) as a critical metal in clean energy transition: applications, global distribution and occurrences, production-demand and phytomining

P Dilshara, B Abeysinghe, R Premasiri… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract In 2022, nickel (Ni) was nominated as a critical metal due to its wide applications in
the metal industry, especially in clean energy applications to achieve climate mitigation …

Field trials of phytomining and phytoremediation: A critical review of influencing factors and effects of additives

L Wang, D Hou, Z Shen, J Zhu, X Jia… - Critical Reviews in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Plant-based technologies including phytomining, phytoextraction, phytodegradation,
phytostabilization and phytovolatilization have drawn much attention during the last decade …

Current status and challenges in developing nickel phytomining: an agronomic perspective

PN Nkrumah, AJM Baker, RL Chaney, PD Erskine… - Plant and Soil, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background Nickel (Ni) phytomining operations cultivate hyperaccumulator plants
('metal crops') on Ni-rich (ultramafic) soils, followed by harvesting and incineration of the …

Genesis and behaviour of ultramafic soils and consequences for nickel biogeochemistry

G Echevarria - … farming for metals: extracting unconventional resources …, 2021 - Springer
Ultramafic outcrops could represent up to 3% or more of the terrestrial surface and their
unusual geochemistry makes them a global hotspot for biodiversity. Ultramafic soils are a …

Global distribution and ecology of hyperaccumulator plants

RD Reeves, A van Der Ent, G Echevarria… - Agromining: farming for …, 2021 - Springer
A large body of analytical data is available on the inorganic composition of many thousands
of plant species, for which typical concentration ranges have been tabulated for major …

Determination of heavy metals in edible vegetables and a human health risk assessment

BA Sadee, RJ Ali - Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vegetable consumption is a significant route to elevate the concentrations of potentially toxic
heavy metals to be mobilized and enter the food chain. Therefore, the purpose of this …

Developing sustainable agromining systems in agricultural ultramafic soils for nickel recovery

PS Kidd, A Bani, E Benizri, C Gonnelli… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Ultramafic soils are typically enriched in nickel (Ni), chromium (Cr), and cobalt (Co) and
deficient in essential nutrients, making them unattractive for traditional agriculture …

A review of nature-based solutions for resource recovery in cities

J Kisser, M Wirth, B De Gusseme… - Blue-Green …, 2020 - iwaponline.com
Our modern cities are resource sinks designed on the current linear economic model which
recovers very little of the original input. As the current model is not sustainable, a viable …