Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants, Volume 3 (Paperback)

CONTENTS Section 1 - Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal Contaminants 1. Phytoremediation of Mining Areas: An Overview of Application in Lead and Zinc Contaminated Soils Tiziana Lai, Giovanna Cappai, and Alessandra Carucci 2. Phytoextraction of Heavy Metals by Fast-Growing Trees: A Review Slobodanka Pajevic, Milan Borisev, Nata sa Nikolic, Danijela D. Arsenov, Milan Zupunski, and Sasa Orlovic 3. Biological Approaches for Remediation of Metal-Contaminated Sites A.P. Pinto, A. de Varennes, M. E. Lopes, and D. Martins Teixeira 4. Biosorption of Heavy Metal from Aqueous Solutions Prayad Pokethitiyook and Toemthip Poolpak 5. Aquatic Macrophytes for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Coal Mining Effluent Virendra Kumar Mishra and Reetika Shukla 6. Heavy Metals Accumulation Ability of Wild Grass Species From Industrial Areas of Kazakhstan Saule Atabayeva 7. Bio-Based Methods for Waste Water Treatment: Green Sorbents Alaa El Din Mahmoud and Manal Fawzy 8. Metal Hyper-Accumulators: Mechanisms of Hyper-Accumulation and Metal Tolerance Abdul Razaque Memon 9. Current Technical Perspective and Application of Aquatic Weeds in Phytoremediation Anand Mohan, S. M. Bhatt, Madhuri Girdhar, Geetanshu Goyal, Abid A. Ansari, and Hasibur Rehman 10. Constructed Wetlands: Role in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals Syed Shakeel Ahmad, Zafar A. Reshi, Manzoor A. Shah, and Irfan Rashid 11. Phytofiltration of Metal(loid)-Contaminated Water: The Potential of Native Aquatic Plants Paulo J. C. Favas, Joao Pratas, Manoj S. Paul, Santosh Kumar Sarkar, and M.N.V. Prasad 12. Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals Contaminated Soils Through Transgenic Plants Neerja Srivastava 13. Role of Phytochelatins in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals Contaminated Soils Neerja Srivastava 14. Role of Biochar in Remediating Heavy Metals in Soil Amina Hayyat, Maryam Javed, Iqra Rasheed, Shafaqat Ali, Munazzam Jawad Shahid, Muhammad Rizwan, M. Tariq Javed, and Qasim Ali 15. Heavy Metal Uptake and Tolerance Mechanisms of Serpentine Flora: Implications for Phytoremediation Mihiri Seneviratne, Sumedha Madawala, and Meththika Vithanage 16. Phytoremediation: Uptake and Role of Metal Transporters in Some Members of Brassicaceae Ritu Chaturvedi, Mayank Varun, and Manoj S. Paul 17. Phytoremediation of Shooting Range Soils Tharanga Bandara and Meththika Vithanage Section 2 - Phytoremediation of Metalloid Contaminants 18. Potential Promising Set of Plant-Microbe Interactions for the Revegetation of Open-Pit Mining and Smelting Areas in Brazil Wesley de Melo Rangel, Jerusa Schneider, Claudio Roberto Fonseca Sousa Soares, Rafael Dutra de Armas, Paulo Ademar Avelar Ferreira, Admir Jose Giachini, Jose Oswaldo Siqueira, and Fatima Maria de Souza Moreira 19. Phytoremediation of Arsenic-Contaminated Soils Using Arsenic Hyperaccumulating Ferns Nabeel Khan Niazi, Safdar Bashir, Irshad Bibi, Behzad Murtaza, Muhammad Shahid, Muhammad Tariq Javed, Muhammad Bilal Shakoor, Zulfiqar Ahmad Saqib, Muhammad Farrakh Nawaz, Zubair Aslam, Hailong Wang, and Ghulam Murtaza 20. Phytoremediation of Boron-Contaminated Sites Consuelo d.P. Ramila, Gonzalo E. Pizarro, and Carlos Alberto Bonilla .