Phytoremediation
Phytoremediation
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DOI:
10.1002/9781119693635.ch4
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2021-04
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Kajal Patel;Induja Tripathi;M. Chaurasia;K. S. Rao
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Kajal Patel;Induja Tripathi;M. Chaurasia;K. S. Rao
In order to boost the economy, most competitive economies worldwide use several tactics and exponential increases in urbanization, industrialization, and commercialization are the most important component of these tactics. Rapid industrialization and development lead to the extensive contamination of ecosystems due to various organic and inorganic wastes from anthropogenic activities. Heavy metals are serious contaminants that pose significant hazardous threats to living organisms and environmental health (soil, air, water, flora, and fauna) due to their long‐term persistence. Thus, it is necessary to remove these elemental contaminants. Several conventional in situ and ex situ techniques are used for remediation. These include various biological, physical, and chemical methods such as pneumatic fracturing, soil washing, vitrification, excavation, encapsulation, bioremediation, and so on. However, many of these standard methods demand high energy input and big‐budget machinery and cause degradation in the quality and productivity of the soil. Amidst various technologies, biological techniques are more cost‐efficient, less laborious, and eco‐friendlier methods for the decontamination of heavy metals. They routinely involve the use of biomaterials such as microorganisms and live plants. This chapter emphasizes the use of a plant‐based remediation technology that is commonly called “phytoremediation,” which depends on numerous physiological and molecular mechanisms of plants to sequester metal. They can be categorized into phytoextraction, phytostabilization, phytovolatilization, phytodegradation, and rhizofiltration. Thus, this chapter will provide a brief synopsis regarding the background, approach, implications, challenges, constraints, recent advancements, and future prospects for the phytoremediation technique to ameliorate heavy metal contamination from the environment. It also provides issues that can be used in the future to use this technique at a larger‐scale and help achieve greater profits from the field.