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- Presents a comprehensive overview of phytoremediation technologies
- Explains the practical implications for designing phytoremediation strategies and the transgenic approaches to enhance them
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science (BRIEFSMOLECULAR)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Green Chemistry for Sustainability (GREENCHEMIST)
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Phytoremediation consists of using plants and their associated microbes for environmental cleanup. Over the past 10 years, this treatment has gained recognition as a cost-effective, non-invasive, alternative or complimentary technology to engineering-based remediation methods. Biofortification, on the other hand, is an agricultural process that increases the uptake and accumulation of mineral nutrients in agricultural products through plant breeding, genetic engineering, or manipulation of agricultural practices.
This book shows how, despite having different goals, both phytoremediation and biofortification technologies can be closely connected as they are both based on the phytoextraction process that involves plant uptake, accumulation, and transformation of nutrient elements from soil. More specifically, this brief offers a comprehensive introduction to Phytoremediation and Biofortification of selenium (Se), zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), cadium (Cd) and copper (Cu), and illustrates the emerging integration of these two bio-technologies.
Phytoremediation and Biofortification: Two Sides of One Coin is a valuable resource to students, technicians, and academics who are interested in the treatment of environmental problems (bioremediation) through the use of plants, and in the field of biofortification.
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Book Title: Phytoremediation and Biofortification
Book Subtitle: Two Sides of One Coin
Editors: Xuebin Yin, Linxi Yuan
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1439-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1438-0Published: 25 July 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1439-7Published: 25 July 2012
Series ISSN: 2191-5407
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5415
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 81
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Chemistry/Food Science, general, Environmental Chemistry