Phytoremediation of agricultural soils: Using plants to clean metal- contaminated arable land

Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental Contaminants, Volume 1

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 159-168

  Neilson, Sarah ^a   Rajakaruna, Nishanta ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Policy and Design   (United States)

^c NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Green technology; Habitat restoration; Heavy metal tolerance; Metal toxicity; Metal uptake; Phytoremediation; Plant soil relations; Soil remediation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938856650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10395-2_11     Document Type: Chapter

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