Plant-driven Removal of Heavy Metals from Soil: Uptake, Translocation, Tolerance Mechanism, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

• Main Authors: Sveta, Thakur, Singh, Lakhveer, Zularisam, A. W., Muhammad Faisal, Siddiqui, Atnaw, Samson M., Mohd Fadhil, Md Din
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer International Publishing 2016
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12362/1/Plant-driven%20removal%20of%20heavy%20metals%20from%20soil.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12362/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-016-5211-9

Increasing heavy metal (HM) concentrations in the soil have become a significant problem in the modern industrialized world due to several anthropogenic activities. Heavy metals (HMs) are non-biodegradable and have long biological half lives; thus, once entered in food chain, their concentrations ke...