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Hazardous and Trace Materials in Soil and Plants
Sources, Effects, and Management
Presents current status and future prospects for managing biotic and abiotic environmental stress using innovative, scientific strategies
M. Naeem (Edited by), Tariq Aftab (Edited by), Abid Ali Ansari (Edited by), Sarvajeet Singh Gill (Edited by), Anca Macovei (Edited by)
9780323916325
Paperback / softback, published 24 August 2022
390 pages, 80 illustrations (35 in full color)
23.5 x 19 x 2.5 cm, 0.45 kg
Hazardous and Trace Materials in Soil and Plants: Sources, Effects and Management explores the latest advancements in reducing, avoiding and eliminating soil contaminants that challenge the health and safety of agricultural plants. With a focus on minimizing the production of those hazardous substances, controlling their distribution and ensuring safe utilization, the book explores each contributing area and provides insights toward improved, sustainable and secure production. This is an excellent reference resource on both current research and future directions from laboratory research to field applications. The combined impacts of climate change and industrialization have led to increased and diversified threats to the health of the soil in which our food crops are grown, as well as in the plants themselves. This dual-hazard scenario is increasingly recognized as a threat to not just the environment, but to global food security as agricultural soils contaminated with pollutants alter plant metabolism, thus resulting in reduced crop quality and production quantity.
SECTION-A: OVERVIEW OF HAZARDOUS AND TRACE MATERIALS IN SOIL, PLANTS AND ENVIRONMENT 1. An Overview of the Hazardous and Trace Materials in Soil and Plants 2. Biological contamination and the control of biological contaminants in environment 3. Long-term challenges, the characteristics and behavior of each hazardous material and trace element in soil 4. Effect of selenium on soils and plants and its management SECTION-B: HAZARDOUS AND TRACE MATERIALS IN THE SOIL ENVIRONMENT 5. Heavy metals in contaminated soils: A bird’s eye view of causes, risks and strategies for remediation 6. Soil chemical pollution, risk assessment and remediation 7. Soil heavy metal pollution: Impact on plants and methods of bioremediation SECTION-C: HAZARDOUS AND TRACE MATERIALS IN THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT 8. Removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) from water and wastewater through biological processes: an overview 9. Sediment pollution in aquatic environments in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires (MABA), Argentina SECTION-D: HAZARDOUS AND TRACE MATERIALS IN PLANTS 10. Hazardous elements in Plants: Sources, Effects and Management 11. Bioaccumulation and translocation of some trace elements in co-occurring halophytes (Amaranthaceae) from Algerian saline areas 12. Heavy metal toxicity and underlying mechanisms for heavy metal tolerance in medicinal legumes 13. Biochemical responses of plants towards heavy metals in soil 14. Spatial distribution of arsenic species in soil ecosystem and their effect on plant physiology 15. Aluminium in tea plants: Phytotoxicity, tolerance and mitigation 16. Role of phytohormones in mitigating the harmful impacts of hazardous and trace materials on agriculture crops 17. Cadmium-mediated oxidative stress and hazard in plants and its management SECTION-E: HAZARDOUS AND TRACE MATERIALS AND MICROORGANISMS 18. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria as bioremediators of polluted agricultural soils: challenges and prospects 19. Bacterial polyamines: A key mediator to combat stress tolerance in plants 20. Plants and microbes assisted remediation of cadmium contaminated soil 21. The efficiency of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on sequestration of potentially toxic elements in soil SECTION F- MANAGEMENT AND RAMEDIATION OF HAZARDOUS AND TRACE MATERIALS 22. Biomonitoring of heavy metals contamination in soil ecosystem 23. Role of nanoparticles in remediation of environmental contaminants 24. Genomic approaches for phytoremediation of trace & hazardous materials
Subject Areas: Pest control [TVP], Agronomy & crop production [TVK], Biotechnology [TCB], Soil science, sedimentology [RBGB], Botany & plant sciences [PST], Microbiology [non-medical PSG], Ecological science, the Biosphere [PSAF], Agriculture & related industries [KNAC]
