Plant Metal Interaction: Emerging Remediation Techniques covers different heavy metals and their effect on soils and plants, along with the remediation techniques currently available. As cultivable land is declining day-by-day as a result of increased metals in our soil and water, there is an urgent need to remediate these effects. This multi-contributed book is divided into four sections covering the whole of plant metal interactions, including heavy metals, approaches to alleviate heavy metal stress, microbial approaches to remove heavy metals, and phytoremediation.
Plant Metal Interaction: Emerging Remediation Techniques covers different heavy metals and their effect on soils and plants, along with the remediation techniques currently available.
As cultivable land is declining day-by-day as a result of increased metals in our soil and water, there is an urgent need to remediate these effects. This multi-contributed book is divided into four sections covering the whole of plant metal interactions, including heavy metals, approaches to alleviate heavy metal stress, microbial approaches to remove heavy metals, and phytoremediation.
Dr. Parvaiz Ahmad is Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at Sri Pratap College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, and is presently a Visiting Scientist at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He completed his post-graduate degree in Botany in 2000 at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India. After receiving a Doctorate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India, he joined the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, in 2007. His main research area is Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology. He has published more than 50 research papers in peer reviewed journals, and 40 book chapters. He is also an Editor of 17 volumes (one with Studium Press Pvt. India Ltd., New Delhi, India; nine with Springer, New York; three with Elsevier USA; and four with John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.). He is a recipient of the Junior Research Fellowship and Senior Research Fellowship award, granted by CSIR, New Delhi, India. Dr. Ahmad was awarded the Young Scientist Award under the Fast Track scheme in 2007 by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. Dr. Ahmad is actively engaged in studying the molecular and physio-biochemical responses of different agricultural and horticultural plants under environmental stress.
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Section: 1. Heavy Metals: Effect and Responses in Plants
1: Heavy metal stress and responses in plants
2:Aluminum toxicity in plants
3:Silicon and biotic stress in agricultural crop Plants: capabilities and limitations
4:Chromium, Environment and Plants: A Dangerous Affair
5:Copper stress and responses in plants
6:Changes in crop productivity of bean plants (Vicia faba L.) in response to copper toxicity and salinity: an overview
7: Behaviour of Copper in Soils. Toxicity, Sorption characteristics and Bioavaibility
8:The effect of lead on plant and human DNA damages and its impact on human life
9:Boron toxicity and its remediation from soil
10:Brassicas and heavy metal stress: An overview
11:Adaptation of higher plants to the heavy metal stress
12:Detoxification of heavy metals and tolerance in plants
Section: 2. Approaches to alleviate heavy metal stress
13:Heavy Metal Stress and Molecular Approaches in Plants
14:Effects of heavy metal stress on plants: insights from proteomics
15:Role of phytohormones in alleviating heavy metals stress in crop plants
16:Role of the gene Osmyb in the resistance to low temperatures as well as to Zn and Cu pollution
17:Heavy metal stress signaling in plants
Section: 3. Microbial Approaches to remove heavy metals
18:Microbial strategy for the bioremediation of heavy metal contaminated soils
19:Potential of Plants and Microbes for
Metal Removal: A Green Clean Approach for remediation of Soil and waste water
20:Land reformation using Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria with context to heavy metal contamination
21: Heavy metal stress tolerance in plants through arbuscular mycorrhiza.
Section: 4. Phytoremediation: A Green Clean Technology
22:Duckweed: Hyperaccumulator of heavy metals
23:Plants used in phytoremediation" or : "Hyperaccumulator plants
24:Transgenic plants in phytoremediation: Recent advances and future possibilities
25:Higher plants suitable for remediation - samples from Central Europe
26:Weed plants and uptake of heavy metals: An overview
27:Phytoremediation of saline soils for sustainable agricultural productivity
28:Phytoextraction, the use of plants to remove heavy metals from soils
29:Phytocheletion and metallothioneins: Role in plants
30:Role of glutathione and phytochelation in heavy metal stress tolerance in plants
31:Selenium: uptake, toxicity, tolerance in plants and phytoremediation
32:Plant metallothioneins: An approach toward heavy metal detoxification
33:Mercury and its bioremediation
34: Cadmium stress in plants: mode of action, defense mechanisms and tolerance. Role of higher plants in bioremediation of cadmium-contaminated soils
35:Accumulation of heavy metal under different methods of irrigation by treated wastewater on corn
36:Overview of the status of agricultural lands affected by long term mining activity in central Chile and remediation attempts
