Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants, Volume 3

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, Natasa 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

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

7.      Bio-Based Methods for Waste Water Treatment: Green Sorbents

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, João Pratas, Manoj S. Paul, Santosh Kumar Sarkar, and M.N.V. Prasad

Neerja Srivastava

13.  Role of Phytochelatins in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals Contaminated Soils

14.  Role of Biochar in Remediating Heavy Metals in Soil

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

Tharanga Bandara and Meththika Vithanage

18.  Potential Promising Set of Plant-Microbe Interactions for the Revegetation of Open-Pit Mining and Smelting Areas in Brazil

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