Description
Intensified agrarian and industrial activity has led to earth's soil and groundwater resources becoming polluted with hazardous materials. Bioremediation delivers a green technology using dynamics of living organisms, typically bacteria, fungi, microalgae and also plants to eliminate contaminants from ecosystem. This biological know-how is not only cost-effective compared to conventional physico-chemical approaches, but also very successful and is being employed in the field. This book focuses on important issues for several critical and common environmental pollutants, resulting in a compilation having recent updates on the bioremediation applications towards green and clean environment. This volume also describes updates on various novel approaches of bioremediation including nanotechnology, rhizomicrobiome technology, composting, metagenomics, and biosurfactants-based bioremediation. This volume is a resource for researchers, environmentalists, professionals and policy makers.
Table of Contents
Fungal Influence on Hydrophobic Organic Pollutants Dynamics within the Soil Matrices. Bioindication and Bioremediation of Mining Degraded Soil. Nanobioremediation of Contaminated Agro-Ecosystems: Applications, Challenges and Prospects. Challenges of Multi-Omics in Improving Microbial-Assisted Phytoremediation. Microbiomes and Metallic Nanoparticles in Remediation of Contaminated Environments. Roles of Nanoparticles in Bioremediation Rate Enhancement. Biosynthesized Metal Nanoparticles in Bioremediation. Nanoparticles, Biosurfactants and Microbes in Bioremediation. Recent Updates on the Role of Biosurfactants for Remediation of Various Pollutants. Mycorrhizoremediation: A Novel Tool for Bioremediation. Agro-Ecosystem Bioremediation Mediated by Plant-Microbe Associations. Heavy Metal Contamination in Groundwater and Potential Remediation Technologies. Application of Plant-Microbe Interactions in Contaminated Agro-Ecosystem Management. Heavy Metals, Hydrocarbons, Radioactive Materials, Xenobiotics, Pesticides, Hazardous Chemicals, Explosives, Pharmaceutical Waste and Dyes Bioremediation. Bioremediation of Hydrocarbons and Classic Explosives: An Environmental Technology Removing Hazardous Wastes. Soil Bioremediation and Sustainability. Nitrogen Cycle Bacteria in Agricultural Soils: Effects of Nitrogen Fertilizers, Heavy Metals, Pesticides and Bioremediation Approaches. Bioremediation of Toxic Metals from Wastewater for Water Security. Plant-Microbe Interaction in Attenuation of the Toxic Waste in the Ecosystem. Phytoremediation of Contaminated Agro-ecosystem through Plants and Fungi. Potential of Aquatic Macrophytes in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals: A Case Study from the Lake Sevan Basin, Armenia. Microbial Surfactants: Current Perspectives and Role in Bioremediation.
