Plant-driven removal of heavy metals from soil: uptake, translocation, tolerance mechanism, challenges, and future perspectives
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...
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| author | Thakur, Sveta Singh, Lakhveer Ab. Wahid, Zularisam Siddiqui, Muhammad Faisal Atnaw, Samson Mekbib Md. Din, Mohd. Fadhil |
| author_facet | Thakur, Sveta Singh, Lakhveer Ab. Wahid, Zularisam Siddiqui, Muhammad Faisal Atnaw, Samson Mekbib Md. Din, Mohd. Fadhil |
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| description | 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 keep on increasing through biomagnification. The increased concentrations of heavy metals ultimately pose threat on human life also. The one captivating solution for this problem is to use green plants for HM removal from soil and render it harmless and reusable. Although this green technology called phytoremediation has many advantages over conventional methods of HM removal from soils, there are also many challenges that need to be addressed before making this technique practically feasible and useful on a large scale. In this review, we discuss the mechanisms of HM uptake, transport, and plant tolerance mechanisms to cope with increased HM concentrations. This review article also comprehensively discusses the advantages, major challenges, and future perspectives of phytoremediation of heavy metals from the soil. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-727132017-11-27T05:05:23Z http://eprints.utm.my/72713/ Plant-driven removal of heavy metals from soil: uptake, translocation, tolerance mechanism, challenges, and future perspectives Thakur, Sveta Singh, Lakhveer Ab. Wahid, Zularisam Siddiqui, Muhammad Faisal Atnaw, Samson Mekbib Md. Din, Mohd. Fadhil TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) 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 keep on increasing through biomagnification. The increased concentrations of heavy metals ultimately pose threat on human life also. The one captivating solution for this problem is to use green plants for HM removal from soil and render it harmless and reusable. Although this green technology called phytoremediation has many advantages over conventional methods of HM removal from soils, there are also many challenges that need to be addressed before making this technique practically feasible and useful on a large scale. In this review, we discuss the mechanisms of HM uptake, transport, and plant tolerance mechanisms to cope with increased HM concentrations. This review article also comprehensively discusses the advantages, major challenges, and future perspectives of phytoremediation of heavy metals from the soil. Springer International Publishing 2016 Article PeerReviewed Thakur, Sveta and Singh, Lakhveer and Ab. Wahid, Zularisam and Siddiqui, Muhammad Faisal and Atnaw, Samson Mekbib and Md. Din, Mohd. Fadhil (2016) Plant-driven removal of heavy metals from soil: uptake, translocation, tolerance mechanism, challenges, and future perspectives. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 188 (4). ISSN 0167-6369 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84959570988&doi=10.1007%2fs10661-016-5211-9&partnerID=40&md5=5035447e3d89432a2f29267e76e1e7ab |
| spellingShingle | TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Thakur, Sveta Singh, Lakhveer Ab. Wahid, Zularisam Siddiqui, Muhammad Faisal Atnaw, Samson Mekbib Md. Din, Mohd. Fadhil Plant-driven removal of heavy metals from soil: uptake, translocation, tolerance mechanism, challenges, and future perspectives |
| title | Plant-driven removal of heavy metals from soil: uptake, translocation, tolerance mechanism, challenges, and future perspectives |
| title_full | Plant-driven removal of heavy metals from soil: uptake, translocation, tolerance mechanism, challenges, and future perspectives |
| title_fullStr | Plant-driven removal of heavy metals from soil: uptake, translocation, tolerance mechanism, challenges, and future perspectives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Plant-driven removal of heavy metals from soil: uptake, translocation, tolerance mechanism, challenges, and future perspectives |
| title_short | Plant-driven removal of heavy metals from soil: uptake, translocation, tolerance mechanism, challenges, and future perspectives |
| title_sort | plant driven removal of heavy metals from soil uptake translocation tolerance mechanism challenges and future perspectives |
| topic | TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
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