Plant-driven removal of heavy metals from soil: uptake, translocation, tolerance mechanism, challenges, and future perspectives

• Main Authors: Thakur, Sveta, Singh, Lakhveer, Ab. Wahid, Zularisam, Siddiqui, Muhammad Faisal, Atnaw, Samson Mekbib, Md. Din, Mohd. Fadhil
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer International Publishing 2016
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/72713/; https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84959570988&doi=10.1007%2fs10661-016-5211-9&partnerID=40&md5=5035447e3d89432a2f29267e76e1e7ab

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...