Agromining: Farming for Metals: Extracting Unconventional Resources Using Plants

Table of Content (Tentative)
Introduction - the Editors
Global distribution and ecology of hyperaccumulator plants - Roger Reeves, Antony van der Ent, Alan Baker
Physiology and molecular biology of trace element hyperaccumulation - Mark Aarts, Sylvain Merlot
The important role of the rhizosphere and microbes associated with hyperaccumulator plants - Emile Benizri, Petra Kidd
New tools for hyperaccumulator discovery and understanding their physiology - Antony van der Ent, Guillaume Echevarria, Hugh Harris
Propagation and aspects of conservation of rare hyperaccumulator plants - Bruno Fogliani, Laurent L'Huillier
Nickel availability and biogeochemical pathways in ultramafic soils - Guillaume Echevarria
The long road to developing agromining/phytomining - Rufus Chaney, Alan Baker, Jean Louis Morel
Agronomy of "metal crops" used in agromining - Rufus Chaney, Jean Louis Morel
Incorporating hyperaccumulator plants in rehabilitation and mine closure - Peter Erskine, Gavin Lee, Stephane McCoy
Using plants to clean up polluted soils with recovery of valuable by-products - Thibault Sterckeman, Markus Puschenreiter
Element case studies: Nickel (Jean Louis Morel, Aida Bani) Cobalt (Guillaume Echevarria, Antony van der Ent) Selenium (Elizabeth Pillon-Smits) Thallium, Rare Earth Elements and PGEs
Processing of bio-ores and products - Marie-Odile Simonnot, James Vaughan, Baptiste Laubie
Ecosystem services and Life Cycle Assessment of agromining - Marie-Noelle Pons, Jean Louis Morel
Conclusions and Outlook - the Editors