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, metalloids, fuel and oil
hydrocarbons, nano particles, pesticides, solvents, organic compounds
and various other contaminants. Many chapters highlight and compare the
efficiency and economic advantages of phytoremediation and
nano-phytoremediation to currently practiced soil and water treatment
practices.
Volume 6 of Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants
continues the series. Taken together, the six 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.