This text details the plant-assisted remediation method, phytoremediation , which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil contaminated with high levels of metals, pesticides, solvents, radionuclides, explosives, crude oil, organic compounds and various other contaminants. Many chapters highlight and compare the efficiency and economic advantages of phytoremediation to currently practiced soil and water treatment practices.
Volume 5 of Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants provides the capstone of the series. Taken together, the five volumes provide a broadbased global synopsis of the current applications of phytoremediation using plants and the microbial communities associated with their roots to decontaminate terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
Section 1: Phytoremediation Using Soil Microorganisms
1 Microbial Inoculants Assisted Phytoremediation for Sustainable Soil Management
Elizabeth Temitope Alori and Oluyemisi Bolajoko Fawole
2 Phytoremediation of Salt-Impacted Soils and Use of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) to Enhance Phytoremediation
Karen E. Gerhardt, Gregory J. MacNeill, Perry D. Gerwing, and Bruce M. Greenberg
3 Successful Integrated Bioremediation System of Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soil at a Former Oil Refinery Using Autochthonous Bacteria and Rhizo-Microbiota
Valentina Spada, Pietro Iavazzo, Rosaria Sciarilllo, and Carmine Guarino
4 Phytoremediation of Petroleum Contaminated Soil in Association with Soil Bacteria
Prayad Pokethitiyook
Section 2: Higher Plants in Biomonitoring and Environmental Bioremedlã1
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