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 broad-based global synopsis of the current applications of
phytoremediation using plants and the microbial communities associated
with their roots to decontaminate terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.