Overview
- Provides comprehensive coverage of agricultural contaminants
- Details heavy metal impact on plants and crops
- Includes effective management techniques for agricultural contaminants
- Discusses environmental impact and methods to control results
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About this book
This comprehensive volume covers recent studies into agricultural problems caused by soil and water contamination. Considering the importance of agricultural crops to human health, the editors have focused on chapters detailing the negative impact of heavy metals, excessive chemical fertilizer use, nutrients, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, agricultural wastes and toxic pollutants, among others, on agricultural soil and crops. In addition, the chapters offer solutions to these negative impacts through various scientific approaches, including using biotechnology, nanotechnology, nutrient management strategies, biofertilizers, as well as potent PGRs and elicitors. This book serves as a key source of information on scientific and engineered approaches and challenges for the bioremediation of agricultural contamination worldwide.
This book should be helpful for research students, teachers, agriculturalists, agronomists, botanists, and plant growers, as well asin the fields of agriculture, agronomy, plant science, plant biology, and biotechnology, among others. It serves as an excellent reference on the current research and future directions of contaminants in agriculture from laboratory research to field application.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Overview of Contaminants in Agriculture
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Sources of Contaminants and Their Impacts on Agriculture
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Management Strategies: Utilization, Engineered Applications and Bioremediation of Agricultural Contaminants
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Abid A. Ansari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ansari’s research work is concerned with phytoremediation and eutrophication. He has a number of research articles of national and international repute to his credit. He has written 10 edited books and a number of book chapters on varied aspects of his research. He has been awarded Environmentalist of the Year - 2011’ & ‘Scientist of the Year-2014’ by the National Environmental Science Academy, India and ‘Research Excellence 2016 Award’ by University of Tabuk. He has also participated in various national and international conferences and acquired memberships to various scientific bodies (Saudi Biological Society, International Phytotechnology Society, and Society for Ecological Restoration).
Sarvajeet Singh Gill, serving as an Assistant Professor at Centre for Biotechnology, MD University, Rohtak, India, has made significant contributions towards abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants. His research includes abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants, reactive oxygen species signaling and antioxidant machinery, gene expression, helicases, crop improvement, transgenics, nitrogen & sulfur metabolism and plant fungal symbiotic interactions. Together with Dr. Narendra Tuteja at International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, he worked on plant helicases and discovered a novel function of plant MCM6, PDH45 and p68 in salinity stress tolerance that will help improve crop production at sub-optimal conditions. A recipient of the Junior Scientist of the Year Award 2008 from the National Environmental Science Academy, Dr. Gill has edited several books and has a number of research papers, review articles, and book chapters to his name.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contaminants in Agriculture
Book Subtitle: Sources, Impacts and Management
Editors: M. Naeem, Abid Ali Ansari, Sarvajeet Singh Gill
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41552-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41551-8Published: 26 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41554-9Published: 26 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41552-5Published: 25 April 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 446
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Plant Ecology, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Physiology