1st Edition
Bioremediation for Sustainable Environmental Cleanup
The present book, Bioremediation for Sustainable Environmental Cleanup, has a compilation of seventeen chapters comprehensively describing the state-of-the-art on emerging bioremediation approaches employed for sustainable environmental clean-up of diverse environmental pollutants such as metal(loid)s, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dyes, pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons, etc., by using bacteria, fungi, algae, higher plants, and novel materials like biohybrids, nano-biomaterials, and graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4). Different bioremediation strategies such as biosorption, bioprecipitation, bioaccumulation, biodegradation, biotransformation etc. have been described in detail. The emphasis throughout, however, is on sustainable environmental clean-up. Eminent researchers from various countries located in diverse geographical areas, including Argentina, Canada, Germany, India, Pakistan, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, have contributed towards the chapters of this book.
Bioremediation: A Sustainable Approach for Environmental Cleanup
Bharti Singh, Anju Malik and Vinod Kumar Garg
Bioprecipitation as a Bioremediation Strategy for Environmental Cleanup
Samantha M. Wilcox, Catherine N. Mulligan and Carmen Mihaela Neculita
Bio Adsorption: An Eco-friendly Alternative for Industrial Effluents Treatment
Andrea Saralegui, M. Natalia Piol, Victoria Willson, Néstor Caracciolo, Silvia Ramos and Susana Boeykens
Bioaccumulation and Biosorption—The Prospects and Future Applications
P.F. Steffi and P.F. Mishel
PAHs in Terrestrial Environment and their Phytoremediation
Sandip Singh Bhatti, Astha Bhatia, Gulshan Bhagat, Simran Singh, Salwinder Singh Dhaliwal, Vivek Sharma, Vibha Verma, Rui Yin and Jaswinder Singh
Fungal Strategies for the Remediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Nitu Gupta, Sandipan Banerjee, Apurba Koley, Aman Basu, Nayanmoni Gogoi, Raza Rafiqul Hoque, Narayan Chandra Mandal and Srinivasan Balachandran
Microbe-Assisted Bioremediation of Pesticides from Contaminated Habitats: Current Status and Prospects
Karen Reddy, Shisy Jose, Tufail Fayaz, Nirmal Renuka, Sachitra Kumar Ratha, Sheena Kumari and Faizal Bux
Pseudomonas putida: An Environment Friendly Bacterium
Sneha S. Das and Gunderao H. Kathwate
General Aspects/Case Studies on Sources and Bioremediation Mechanisms of Metal(loid)s
Manoj Kumar, Sushma K. Varma, Renju, Neeraj Kumar Singh and Rajesh Singh
Metal(loid)s Toxicity and Bacteria Mediated Bioremediation
Sushant Sunder, Anshul Gupta, Mehak Singla, Rohit Ruhal and Rashmi Kataria
Lead Induced Toxicity, Detoxification and Bioremediation
Shalini Dhiman, Arun Dev Singh, Isha Madaan, Raman Tikoria, Driti Kapoor, Priyanka Sharma, Nitika Kapoor, Geetika Sirhindi, Puja Ohri and Renu Bhardwaj
Microalgal Bioremediation of Heavy Metals: An Integrated Low-cost Sustainable Approach
Anubha Kaushik, Sharma Mona, Randhir Bharti and Sujata
Bioremediation of Heavy Metals from Aquatic Environments
Fariha Latif, Shahena Perveen, Sana Aziz, Rehana Iqbal and Muhammad Mudassar Shahzad
Apurba Koley, Anudeb Ghosh, Sandipan Banerjee, Nitu Gupta, Richik Ghosh Thakur, Binoy Kumar Show, Shibani Chaudhury, Amit Kumar Hazra, Andrew B. Ross, Gaurav Nahar and Srinivasan Balachandran
Biohybrids for Environmental Remediation and Biosensing: Concept, Synthesis and Future Prospective
Archana Mishra, Ayushi Rastogi and Avanish Singh Parmar
Remediation for Heavy Metal Contamination: A Nanotechnological Approach
Rubina Khanam, Amaresh Kumar Nayak and Dibyendu Chatterjee
Modification Strategies of g-C3N4 for Potential Applications in Photocatalysis: A Sustainable Approach towards the Environment
Sachin Shoran, Sweety Dahiya, Anshu Sharma and Sudesh Chaudhary
Biography
Dr. Anju Malik is presently working as Associate Professor and Chairperson at Department of Energy and Environmental Sciences, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, India. She has completed her M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was awarded with a fellowship from the Belgian Government, under the bilateral cultural exchange programme at University of Ghent, Belgium. Dr. Anju has also received research scholarships from University Grant Commission (UGC) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India. She has worked in the past as a scientist under the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun, India. With more than 18 years of research and teaching experience, her research interest is focused on trace elemental contamination, speciation and remediation. She is a life member of The Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata, India. She has guided several M.Sc., M.Phil. and Ph.D. students. She has published research papers in various peer-reviewed national and international journals of repute. She has also published one book and 10 book chapters in edited books published by reputed international publishers. She is a reviewer of several international journals.
Prof (Dr.) Vinod Kumar Garg is presently working as Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Central University of Punjab, Punjab, India. He is an experienced researcher with more than 30 years of involvement in leading, supervising, and undertaking research. He along with his research group are working on water and wastewater pollution monitoring and abatement, solid waste management, pesticide degradation, radioecology, green chemistry and heavy metal detoxification. He has published more than 200 research and review articles, and six editorials in peer-reviewed international and national journals of repute with more than 18000 citations and h-index 73. In addition, he has published eight books and 15 book chapters and completed 10 sponsored research projects as principal investigator funded by various agencies and departments. He was awarded “Thomson Reuters Research Excellence—India Citation Awards 2012”. He is an active member of various scientific societies and organizations including, the Biotech Research Society of India, the Indian Nuclear Society, etc.
