1st Edition
Microbe-Assisted Phytoremediation of Environmental Pollutants Recent Advances and Challenges
Microbe-Assisted Phytoremediation of Environmental Pollutants: Recent Advances and Challenges provides comprehensive information on the principles and practical knowledge of microbe-assisted phytoremediation of organic and inorganic pollutants for environmental safety. This book describes the physiological, biochemical, microbiological, and molecular basis of microbe-assisted phytoremediation and contains many relevant topics to fill the gaps in developing an understanding of microbe-assisted phytoremediation of environmental pollutants.
The book provides state-of-the-art knowledge on fundamental, practical, and purposeful utilization of plant-associated bacteria (plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria [PGPR] and endophytes) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for plant-growth promotion and enhanced phytoremediation of environmental pollutants in the contaminated matrix.
Features:
- Provides a state-of-the-art overview of microbe-assisted phytoremediation
- Emphasizes the roles of PGPR, endophytes, and mycorrhizal fungi in assisted phytoremediation
- Elucidates biochemical and molecular mechanisms of microbe-assisted phytoremediation
- Details field studies and success stories of microbe-assisted phytoremediation
- Explores advances, challenges, and future directions in microbe-assisted phytoremediation
The book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, ecotoxicologists, environmental scientists and engineers, environmental microbiologists and biotechnologists, environmental health and risk scientists, environmental science managers and administrators, remediation practitioners, environmental policymakers, and students at the postgraduate and doctoral levels in the relevant fields who wish to work on microbe-assisted phytoremediation of pollutants for environmental safety and sustainability.
Biography
Vineet Kumar, Gaurav Saxena
"Phytoremediation is inexpensive and beneficial in many environmental applications, as documented in this work addressing the cooperative action of different types of microorganisms and plants in contaminated soil. Beneficial effects of bacteria and fungi have been foundational to soil science, and advancing phytotechnology for the improvement of soil health is a subject of ongoing research. Many new studies have been reported since 1990, and a good review of this literature is appropriate and welcome. The ecology of the rhizosphere including positive interactions of bacteria and fungi is an ongoing area of phytoremediation research. Advances through genetic engineering to improve plant growth-promoting bacteria for use in phytotechnology applications are covered in a separate chapter. Many success stories are reported, and the text is supported by frequent tables that summarize progress on specific topics. Any student of soil ecology improvement would find this volume of interest."
— L. E. Erickson, emeritus, Kansas State University, Choice, Oct 2021
