Phytoremediation: a sustainable environmental technology for heavy metals decontamination

B Nedjimi - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Toxic metal contamination of soil is a major environmental hazard. Chemical methods for
heavy metal's (HMs) decontamination such as heat treatment, electroremediation, soil …

Common explosives (TNT, RDX, HMX) and their fate in the environment: Emphasizing bioremediation

S Chatterjee, U Deb, S Datta, C Walther, DK Gupta - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Explosive materials are energetic substances, when released into the environment,
contaminate by posing toxic hazards to environment and biota. Throughout the world, soils …

Phytoremediation—an overview

EL Arthur, PJ Rice, PJ Rice, TA Anderson… - Critical Reviews in …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
The use of plants (directly or indirectly) to remediate contaminated soil or water is known as
phytoremediation. This technology has emerged as a more cost effective, noninvasive, and …

[KNIHA][B] Phyto: principles and resources for site remediation and landscape design

K Kennen, N Kirkwood - 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
Winner of the 2017 CBHL Literature Award of Excellence in Landscape Design and
Architecture Phyto presents the concepts of phytoremediation and phytotechnology in one …

Transgenic plants for enhanced phytoremediation of toxic explosives

B Van Aken - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2009 - Elsevier
Phytoremediation of organic pollutants, such as explosives, is often a slow and incomplete
process, potentially leading to the accumulation of toxic metabolites that can be further …

Phytoremediation and sequestration of soil metals using the CRISPR/Cas9 technology to modify plants: a review

N Bhattacharyya, U Anand, R Kumar, M Ghorai… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Soil contamination by toxic metals is a major health issue that could be partly solved by
using genetically-modified plants. For that, the recently developed technique of clustered …

An explosive-degrading cytochrome P450 activity and its targeted application for the phytoremediation of RDX

EL Rylott, RG Jackson, J Edwards, GL Womack… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
The widespread presence in the environment of hexahydro-1, 3, 5-trinitro-1, 3, 5-triazine
(RDX), one of the most widely used military explosives, has raised concern owing to its …

Field trial demonstrating phytoremediation of the military explosive RDX by XplA/XplB-expressing switchgrass

TJ Cary, EL Rylott, L Zhang, RM Routsong… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The explosive hexahydro-1, 3, 5-trinitro-1, 3, 5-triazine (RDX), a major component
of munitions, is used extensively on military training ranges. As a result, widespread RDX …

Phytoremediation, bioaugmentation, and the plant microbiome

RA Simmer, JL Schnoor - Environmental science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Understanding plant biology and related microbial ecology as a means to phytoremediate
soil and groundwater contamination has broadened and advanced the field of …

Plants disarm soil: engineering plants for the phytoremediation of explosives

EL Rylott, NC Bruce - Trends in biotechnology, 2009 - cell.com
Explosives are toxic, recalcitrant to degradation and contaminate large areas of land and
ground water. Remediation of these synthetic compounds is difficult and an enormous …