ReviewJournal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology2005
Phytoremediation of toxic trace elements in soil and water.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Integration of physio-biochemical, biological and molecular approaches to improve heavy metal tolerance in plants.3 Biotech · 2025Review
- Phytoremediation as an Effective Remedy for Removing Trace Elements from Ecosystems.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Sustainable mitigation of heavy metals from effluents: Toxicity and fate with recent technological advancements.Bioengineered · 2021Review
- The role and effectiveness of monoculture and polyculture phytoremediation systems in fish farm wastewater.RSC advances · 2021Article
- In situ phytoremediation of heavy metal-contaminated soil and groundwater: a green inventive approach.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Review
- Floating Wetland Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage using Eichhornia crassipes (Water Hyacinth).Journal of health & pollution · 2018Article
- Draft Genome Sequence of the Arsenic-Resistant BacteriumGenome announcements · 2017Article
- Prospecting metal-tolerant rhizobia for phytoremediation of mining soils from Morocco using Anthyllis vulneraria L.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2015Article
- Biofortification and phytoremediation of selenium in China.Frontiers in plant science · 2015Article
- Establishing best practice for microbially aided phytoremediation.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2014Article
- Genome-wide association studies identify heavy metal ATPase3 as the primary determinant of natural variation in leaf cadmium in Arabidopsis thaliana.PLoS genetics · 2012Article
- Possible use of Serratia marcescens in toxic metal biosorption (removal).Environmental science and pollution research international · 2012Article
- Assessment of successful experiments and limitations of phytotechnologies: contaminant uptake, detoxification and sequestration, and consequences for food safety.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2009Review
- A bacterial view of the periodic table: genes and proteins for toxic inorganic ions.Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology · 2005Review
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Abstract
Toxic heavy metals and metalloids, such as cadmium, lead, mercury, arsenic, and selenium, are constantly released into the environment. There is an urgent need to develop low-cost, effective, and sustainable methods for their removal or detoxification. Plant-based approaches, such as phytoremediation, are relatively inexpensive since they are performed in situ and are solar-driven. In this review, we discuss specific advances in plant-based approaches for the remediation of contaminated water and soil. Dilute concentrations of trace element contaminants can be removed from large volumes of wastewater by constructed wetlands. We discuss the potential of constructed wetlands for use in remediating agricultural drainage water and industrial effluent, as well as concerns over their potential ecotoxicity. In upland ecosystems, plants may be used to accumulate metals/metalloids in their harvestable biomass (phytoextraction). Plants can also convert and release certain metals/metalloids in a volatile form (phytovolatilization). We discuss how genetic engineering has been used to develop plants with enhanced efficiencies for phytoextraction and phytovolatilization. For example, metal-hyperaccumulating plants and microbes with unique abilities to tolerate, accumulate, and detoxify metals and metalloids represent an important reservoir of unique genes that could be transferred to fast-growing plant species for enhanced phytoremediation. There is also a need to develop new strategies to improve the acceptability of using genetically engineered plants for phytoremediation.
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