George Kvesitadze, Gia Khatisashvili, Tinatin Sadunishvili

Biochemical Mechanisms of Detoxification in Higher Plants

Basis of Phytoremediation
Mitwirkender: Kvesitadze, George; Sadunishvili, Tinatin; Khatisashvili, Gia

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Produktbeschreibung

Plants play a key role in purifying the biosphere of the toxic effects of industrial activity. This book shows how systematic application of the results of investigations into the metabolism of xenobiotics (foreign, often toxic substances) in plants could make a vastly increased contribution to planetary well-being. Deep physiological knowledge gained from an accumulation of experimental data enables the great differences between the detoxifying abilities of different plants for compounds of different chemical nature to be optimally exploited. Hence planting could be far more systematically adapted to actual environmental needs than is actually the case at present.

The book could form the basis of specialist courses in universities and polytechnics devoted to environmental management, and advanced courses in plant physiology and biochemistry, for botany and integrative biology students. Fundamental plant physiology and biochemistry from the molecular level to whole plants and ecosystems are interwoven in a powerful and natural way, making this a unique contribution to the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 10970386, 978-3-540-28996-8
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9783540289968
• ISBN-10: 3540289968
• Artikelnr.: 15110518

Autorenporträt

George Kvesitadze, Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Tbilisi / Gia Khatisashvili, Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Tbilisi / Tinatin Sadunishvili, Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Tbilisi / Jeremy Ramsden, Inst. of Advanced Study, Collegium Basilea, Basel, Switzerland

Inhaltsangabe

Contaminants in the environment.- Uptake, translocation and effects of contaminants in plants.- The fate of organic contaminants in the plant cell.- The ecological importance of plants for contaminated environments.