Phytoremediation for Environmental Sustainability

This edited book details the plant-assisted remediation methods, which  involves the interaction of plant roots with associated rhizospheric  microorganisms for the remediation of soil and water contaminated with  high levels of heavy metals, pesticides, radionuclides, agricultural  by-products, municipal wastes, industrial solvents, petroleum  hydrocarbons, organic compounds, and various other contaminants. Each  chapter highlights and compares the beneficial and economical  alternatives of phytoremediation to currently practiced soil, water, and  air removal. This book covers state-of-the-art approaches in  phytoremediation contributed by leading and eminent scientists from  across the world. Phytoremediation approaches for environmental  sustainability dealing the readers with a cutting-edge of  multidisciplinary understanding in the principal and practical  approaches of phytoremediation from laboratory research to field  application. This book is of interest to researchers, teachers,  environmental scientists, environmental engineers, environmentalists,  and policy makers. Also, the book serves as additional reading material  for undergraduate and graduate students of environmental microbiology,  biotechnology, eco-toxicology, environmental remediation, waste  management, and environmental sciences as well as the general audience.