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- Title
Remediation of Heavy Metal Polluted Sites.
- Authors
Banger, K. C.; Kapoor, K. K.
- Abstract
This article presents the results of environmental science research into the bioremediation and phytoremediation of sites polluted by inorganic heavy metals such as copper, nickel, cadmium, zinc, chromium, and lead. Some algae, aquatic plants, and bacteria can be effective in the cleanup of heavy-metal-polluted industrial effluents and bodies of water. Metal accumulating plants have a detoxification mechanism that involves chelation and sequestration by peptides and small metal binding proteins. Transgenic plants have been created with increased efficiency for metal accumulation.
- Subjects
BIOREMEDIATION; PHYTOREMEDIATION; HEAVY metals; HEAVY metals removal (Sewage purification); BIODEGRADATION; BIODEGRADATION of industrial wastes; MARINE bioremediation; ENVIRONMENTAL remediation; SOIL remediation; ENVIRONMENTAL sciences
- Publication
International Journal of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, 2005, Vol 31, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
0377-015X
- Publication type
Article