Phytoremediation

Pollution as a consequence of anthropogenic actions represents a serious threat to life on Earth and in order to restore damaged environs it is necessary to apply remediation strategies. These strategies can involve (biological remediation) or not (physicochemical remediation) the participation of living organisms. However biological strategies generally present lower costs for large scale remediation of organic and/or inorganic pollutants. Among these strategies is phytoremediation: the use of plants to promote in a sustained way ecosystems restoration. Phytoremediation: Biotechnological Strategies for Promoting Invigorating Environs offers a new approach the market lacks, focusing phytoremediation’s history, present and future potential discussing in the same book in addition to themes generally discussed (mechanisms of remediation, different types of pollutant and polluted environs), cell signaling, biotechnology, molecular biology including site-directed DNA and the omics related to plant sciences. The book is divided in two parts and focused on phytoremediation as an economically feasible and environmentally safe strategy that provides a set of mechanisms to deal with different kinds of pollutants in different environs. The first part is dedicated to exploring phytoremediation’s history and discusses its mechanisms from macroscopic to microscopic level, strategies of assisted phytoremediation, the role of omics on innovations on the field, the development of genetically modified plants (GMPs) to deal with pollutants, the future prospects of targeted genetic engineering in phytoremediation and these kinds of remediation advantages and disadvantages. The second part is dedicated to exploring phytoremediation of specific environs (water and soil) and specific contaminants that are of major concern worldwide. It also contains a chapter dedicated to exploring strategies capable of assisting researches to determine phytoremediation strategies’ efficiency. The book will offer readers (from undergraduate students to researchers) extensive knowledge on phytoremediation from the first strategies proposed to its recent characteristic as a very relevant biotechnological approach to fight pollution harmful consequences. Presents phytoremediation mechanisms at a microscopic level (molecular mechanisms)Covers remediation in different environs and of different kinds of pollutantsDisplays economic aspects relation to phytoremediation