Intensified agrarian and industrial activity has led to earth's soil and groundwater resources becoming polluted with hazardous materials. Bioremediation delivers a green technology using dynamics of living organisms, typically bacteria, fungi, microalgae and also plants to eliminate contaminants from ecosystem. This biological know-how is not only cost-effective compared to conventional physico-chemical approaches, but also very successful and is being employed in the field. This book focuses on important issues for several critical and common environmental pollutants, resulting in a compilation having recent updates on the bioremediation applications towards green and clean environment. This volume also describes updates on various novel approaches of bioremediation including nanotechnology, rhizomicrobiome technology, composting, metagenomics, and biosurfactants-based bioremediation. This volume is a resource for researchers, environmentalists, professionals and policy makers.
Fungal Influence on Hydrophobic Organic Pollutants Dynamics within the Soil Matrices
Claire Baranger, Isabelle Pezron, Anne Le Goff and Antoine Fayeulle
Bioindication and Bioremediation of Mining Degraded Soil
Danica Fazekašová and Juraj Fazekaš
Nanobioremediation of Contaminated Agro-Ecosystems: Applications, Challenges and Prospects
Busiswa Ndaba, Maryam Bello-Akinosho, Ashira Roopnarain, Emomotimi Bamuza-Pemu, Rosina Nkuna, Haripriya Rama and Rasheed Adeleke
Challenges of Multi-Omics in Improving Microbial-Assisted Phytoremediation
Camilla Fagorzi
Microbiomes and Metallic Nanoparticles in Remediation of Contaminated Environments
Ana Maria Queijeiro López, Amanda Lys dos Santos Silva, Elane Cristina Lourenço dos Santos, and Jean Phellipe Marques do Nascimento
Roles of Nanoparticles in Bioremediation Rate Enhancement
Wael A. Aboutaleb and Huda Saleh El-Sheshtawy
Biosynthesized Metal Nanoparticles in Bioremediation
Jaison Jeevanandam, Yiik Siang Hii and Yen San Chan
Nanoparticles, Biosurfactants and Microbes in Bioremediation
Charles O. Nwuche, Victor C. Igbokwe, Daniel D. Ajagbe and Chukwudi O. Onwosi
Recent Updates on the Role of Biosurfactants for Remediation of Various Pollutants
Nilanjana Das, Sanjeeb Kumar Mandal, Devlina Das, Jagannathan Madhavan and Adikesavan Selvi
Mycorrhizoremediation: A Novel Tool for Bioremediation
V. Vijaya Kumar and P. Suprasanna
Agro-Ecosystem Bioremediation Mediated by Plant-Microbe Associations
Maryam Bello-Akinosho, Busiswa Ndaba, Ashira Roopnarain, Emomotimi Bamuza-Pemu, Rosina Nkuna, Haripriya Rama and Rasheed Adeleke
Heavy Metal Contamination in Groundwater and Potential Remediation Technologies
Yung Shen Lee, Peck Kah Yeow, Tony Hadibarata and Mohamed Soliman Elshikh
Application of Plant-Microbe Interactions in Contaminated Agro-Ecosystem Management
Leila El-Bassi
Heavy Metals, Hydrocarbons, Radioactive Materials, Xenobiotics, Pesticides, Hazardous Chemicals, Explosives, Pharmaceutical Waste and Dyes Bioremediation
Elżbieta Wołejko, Agata Jabłońska-Trypuć, Andrzej Butarewicz and Urszula Wydro
Bioremediation of Hydrocarbons and Classic Explosives: An Environmental Technology Removing Hazardous Wastes
Ahmed Ibrahim Jessim
Soil Bioremediation and Sustainability
Nour Sh. El-Gendy and Hussein N. Nassar
Nitrogen Cycle Bacteria in Agricultural Soils: Effects of Nitrogen Fertilizers, Heavy Metals, Pesticides and Bioremediation Approaches
Guillermo Bravo, Paulina Vega-Celedón, Constanza Macaya, Ingrid-Nicole Vasconez and Michael Seeger
Bioremediation of Toxic Metals from Wastewater for Water Security
Praveen Solanki, Neha Khanna, ML Dotaniya, Maitreyie Narayan, Shiv Singh Meena, RK Srivastava and S Udayakumar
Plant-Microbe Interaction in Attenuation of the Toxic Waste in the Ecosystem
Mary Isabella Sonali and Veena Gayathri Krishnaswamy
Phytoremediation of Contaminated Agro-ecosystem through Plants and Fungi
Shazia Iram
Potential of Aquatic Macrophytes in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals: A Case Study from the Lake Sevan Basin, Armenia
Lilit Vardanyan and Jaysankar De
Microbial Surfactants: Current Perspectives and Role in Bioremediation
Pooja Shivanand, Nur Bazilah Afifah Binti Matussin and Lee Hoon Lim
Biography
Vivek Kumar is working as Sr. Associate Professor, Himalayan School of Biosciences, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Dehradun, India and is leading the plant-microbe-interaction, bioremediation and microbial ecology research group. He is serving as editor and reviewer of several reputed international journals. He has more than hundred publications to his credit, has authored a practical manual book and edited 18 books. He also served as Microbiologist, Public Authority of Agricultural Affairs & Fish Resources, Kuwait and has been credited with first time reporting of Pink Rot inflorescence disease of Date palm in Kuwait caused by Serratia marcescens.
"This book covers an important topic, and will be a valuable reference for faculty, students, and concerned working professionals."
— L. E. Erickson, emeritus, Kansas State University, Choice April 2022
