Past, present and future trends in the remediation of heavy-metal contaminated soil-Remediation techniques applied in real soil-contamination events

I Sánchez-Castro, L Molina, MÁ Prieto-Fernández… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Most worldwide policy frameworks, including the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals, highlight soil as a key non-renewable natural resource which should be rigorously …

Nature-based units as building blocks for resource recovery systems in cities

ED Van Hullebusch, A Bani, M Carvalho, Z Cetecioglu… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cities are producers of high quantities of secondary liquid and solid streams that are still
poorly utilized within urban systems. In order to tackle this issue, there has been an ever …

Hyperaccumulator plant discoveries in the Balkans: Accumulation, distribution, and practical applications

K Jakovljević, A Bani, D Pavlova, M Konstantinou… - Botanica …, 2022 - doiserbia.nb.rs
Hyperaccumulator plants are able to tolerate extremely high concentrations of
metals/metalloids in the soil in which they grow and to accumulate high concentrations in …

Cutting propagation of Bornmuellera tymphaea, a nickel hyperaccumulator for use in agromining: Effects of rooting media and auxins on stem cuttings

D Kyrkas, N Mantzos, G Patakioutas… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The nickel hyperaccumulator Bornmuellera tymphaea has been evaluated for use in
agromining in Greece with very promising results. This study examines propagation of this …

Influence of subsoil and soil volume on the accumulation of nickel by Odontarrhena corsica grown on a serpentine soil

ALD Paul, RL Chaney - International Journal of Phytoremediation, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Odontarrhena corsica was grown for three months on Chrome loam topsoil and subsoil from
near Reisterstown, MD, to examine the effects of varying soil masses (2.8 and 5.6 kg pot− 1) …

Nickel accumulation in plants from the Shebenik Mountain massif, Albania

A Bani, E Gjeta, D Pavlova, V Ibro, E Shahu… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hyperaccumulators are unusual plants that accumulate specific metals or metalloids in their
living tissues to concentrations that may be hundreds or thousands of times greater than …

Designing cropping systems for nickel agromining on ultramafic land in Albania

A Bani, V Álvarez‐López… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Agromining describes the technique of growing plants to “mine” metals present in naturally
enriched or contaminated soils. This technique comprises a series of processes including …

The seed germination properties of two hyperaccumulator plant species with the potential for Ni agromining

D Kyrkas, N Mantzos, G Patakioutas, G Echevarria… - Botanica …, 2023 - doiserbia.nb.rs
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of different nickel concentrations and light in
combination with storage conditions and storage time on the seed germination ability of two …

Exploring Ni-accumulation in serpentinophytic taxa of Brassicaceae from Albania and Greece

E Bianchi, A Bani, I Colzi, C Gonnelli… - Plant Biosystems-An …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The family Brassicaceae includes the highest proportion of Ni-hyperaccumulating plants in
western Eurasia. Though increasingly relevant for scientific research and biotechnological …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing wildfire vulnerability of vegetated serpentine soils in the Balkan peninsula

A Hysa, Z Teqja, A Bani, Z Libohova, A Cerda - Journal for Nature …, 2022 - Elsevier
The endemic vegetation on serpentine soils is remarkably diverse and usually of low
productivity and recovers slowly after major disturbances like wildfires and subsequent …