Ecopiling: A combined phytoremediation and passive biopiling system for remediating hydrocarbon impacted soils at field scale

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Germaine, Kieran J ^a   Byrne, John ^a   Liu, Xuemei ^b   Keohane, Jer ^c   Culhane, John ^a   Lally, Richard D ^a   Kiwanuka, Samuel ^a   Ryan, David ^a   Dowling, David N ^a  

^a South East Technological University   (Ireland)

^b MicroGen Biotech Ltd Enterprise and Research Incubation Campus Centre for Research and Innovation   (Ireland)

^c Innovation Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Biopiling; Bioremediation; Field trials; Phytoremediation; TPH

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LOLIUM PERENNE; TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

EID: 84922268564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00756     Document Type: Article

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