Description
Designer Cropping Systems for Polluted Land explores the processes and techniques of making polluted land safe for planting edible and non-edible crops. The book provides readers and practitioners with a comprehensive understanding of contaminated land use through designer cropping systems. It seeks to present promising and affordable practices for transforming polluted lands while also providing an excellent basis from which scientific knowledge can grow and widen in the fields of phytoremediation-based biofortification.- Provides basic understanding on how to produce edible crops on polluted lands with biofortification- Explores cropping systems for the extraction of metals for industrial use- Discovers the role of designer cropping systems in phytoremediation programs
Table of Contents
1. Agriculture extensification on polluted lands 2. Edible crop production on polluted lands for biofortification3. Strategies for reducing toxic metal(loid)s in edible crop parts4. Cash/Valuable crop production on polluted lands5. Cropping systems for extraction of metals for industrial use6. Designer cropping systems in phytoremediation programs7. Designing crops for remediating polluted land and their adaptations
