Increasing urbanization, industrialization and over population is one of the leading causes of environmental degradation and pollution. Heavy metals such as Pb, Zn, Cd, As etc. are one of the most toxic pollutants which show hazardous effects on all living livings. Lead is one such pollutants which disrupts the food chain and is lethal even at low concentrations. The prevailing purification tec...

Arsenic (As) accumulation in food crops such as rice is of major concern. To investigate whether phytoremediation can reduce As uptake by rice, the As hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata was grown in five contaminated paddy soils in a pot experiment. Over a 9-month period P. vittata removed 3.5-11.4% of the total soil As, and decreased phosphate-extractable As and soil pore water As by 11-38% and 1...

festuca ovina l. is a hyperaccumulating plant which has aroused considerableinterest with respect to its possible use for phytoremediation of contaminated soils. thisstudy has been conducted to evaluate the potentials of f. ovina l. to serve as aphytoremediation plant in the cleaning up of cu in the polluted soils and to identifyextraction efficiency of ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (edta) ...

phytoremediation is an emerging environmental-friendly technology that can be a promising solution to remediate oil-polluted soils. the impact of high amount of hydrocarbons on growth characteristics of burningbushand common flax was evaluated in this survey. the influence of organic fertilizers was also assessed on growth of plant species in oil-contaminated soil. soil samples in which plants ...

metal pollution has become one of the most serious environmental problems resulting from human activity. phytoremediation utilizes plants to uptake contaminants and can potentially be used to remediate metal-contaminated sites. the present study investigates heavy metal uptake (cd, cr, and ni) from soil by different organs of populus alba and morus alba. for this purpose, cd (40, 80, and 160 mg...

plant-based remediation (i.e. phytoremediation) is one of the most significant eco-sustainable techniques to cope with devastating consequences of pollutants. in the present study, the potential of a wetland macrophyt (i.e. potamogeton crispus ) for the phytoremediation of heavy metals (i.e. cu, cr, pb, as and cd) in the anzali wetland was evaluated. the results showed that p. crispus tends to ...

in the present study, the effects of different cadmium (cd) levels of irrigation water (0, 5, 10 and 20 mg l-1) on corn plants (foliage) under different irrigation intervals (1, 3, and 7 days) were investigated. clear cd toxicity symptoms appeared on the plants at the end of the experiment. the results showed that stem dry weight (dw) followed by transpiration (t) and plant height were the meas...

Pollution is an undesirable change in the physical, chemical or biological characteristics of air, land and water that will waste or deteriorate our raw material resources. Modern technological innovations have increased pollution levels above the self cleaning capacities of the environment. In recent times, one of the major issues is the threat to human life from the progressive deterioration ...

We often think of plants primarily as a source of wood, food, and fiber. Secoridarily we may also appreciate their presence for aesthetic reasons as well as for “altruistically” providing habitat for other species. Increasingly, however, their value as an environmental counterbalance to industrialization processes is being appreciated. These processes include the burning of fossil fuels, genera...