Hazardous and Trace Materials in Soil and Plants

Sources, Effects, and Management

M. Naeem, Tariq Aftab, Abid Ali Ansari, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Anca Macovei

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780323916325
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323914109
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Biotechnology
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Hazardous and Trace Materials in Soil and Plants: Sources, Effects and Management explores the latest advancements in reducing, avoiding and eliminating soil contaminants that challenge the health and safety of agricultural plants. With a focus on minimizing the production of those hazardous substances, controlling their distribution and ensuring safe utilization, the book explores each contributing area and provides insights toward improved, sustainable and secure production. This is an excellent reference resource on both current research and future directions from laboratory research to field applications. The combined impacts of climate change and industrialization have led to increased and diversified threats to the health of the soil in which our food crops are grown, as well as in the plants themselves. This dual-hazard scenario is increasingly recognized as a threat to not just the environment, but to global food security as agricultural soils contaminated with pollutants alter plant metabolism, thus resulting in reduced crop quality and production quantity. - Addresses the challenges of mitigating toxic substances in plants, including agricultural crops - Presents current status and future prospects for managing biotic and abiotic environmental stress factors through plant stress tolerance mechanisms - Includes chapters that address both biotic and abiotic stresses, agricultural and environmental science, toxicology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and molecular studies - Integrates insights and developments between environmental and plant science

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : An overview of the hazardous and trace materials in soil and plants
• Chapter 2 : Biological contamination and the control of biological contaminants in the environment
• Chapter 3 : Long-term challenges, the characteristics and behavior of various hazardous material and trace elements in soil
• Chapter 4 : Effect of selenium on soils and plants and its management
• Chapter 5 : Heavy metals in contaminated soil: a bird’s eye view on causes, risks, and strategies for remediation
• Chapter 6 : Soil chemical pollution and remediation
• Chapter 7 : Soil heavy metal pollution: impact on plants and methods of bioremediation
• Chapter 8 : Removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products from water and wastewater through biological processes: an overview
• Chapter 9 : Sediment pollution in aquatic environments of the metropolitan region of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Chapter 10 : Hazardous elements in plants: sources, effect and management
• Chapter 11 : Bioaccumulation and translocation of some trace elements in co-occurring halophytes (Amaranthaceae) from Algerian saline areas
• Chapter 12 : Heavy metal toxicity and underlying mechanisms for heavy metal tolerance in medicinal legumes
• Chapter 13 : Biochemical responses of plants towards heavy metals in soil
• Chapter 14 : Spatial distribution of arsenic species in soil ecosystem and their effect on plant physiology
• Chapter 15 : Aluminum in tea plants: phytotoxicity, tolerance and mitigation
• Chapter 16 : Role of phytohormones in mitigating the harmful impacts of hazardous and trace materials on agriculture crops
• Chapter 17 : Cadmium-induced oxidative stress and remediation in plants
• Chapter 18 : Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria as bioremediators of polluted agricultural soils: challenges and prospects
• Chapter 19 : Bacterial polyamines: a key mediator to combat stress tolerance in plants
• Chapter 20 : Plants and microbes assisted remediation of cadmium-contaminated soil
• Chapter 21 : The efficiency of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on sequestration of potentially toxic elements in soil
• Chapter 22 : Biomonitoring of heavy metals contamination in soil ecosystem
• Chapter 23 : Role of nanoparticles in remediation of environmental contaminants
• Chapter 24 : Genomic approaches for phytoremediation of trace and hazardous metals
• Index
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