Phytoremediation of toxic metals: a sustainable green solution for clean environment

SMOF Babu, MB Hossain, MS Rahman, M Rahman… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Contamination of aquatic ecosystems by various sources has become a major worry all over
the world. Pollutants can enter the human body through the food chain from aquatic and soil …

Climate change driven plant–metal–microbe interactions

M Rajkumar, MNV Prasad, S Swaminathan… - Environment …, 2013 - Elsevier
Various biotic and abiotic stress factors affect the growth and productivity of crop plants.
Particularly, the climatic and/or heavy metal stress influence various processes including …

Rice production threatened by coupled stresses of climate and soil arsenic

EM Muehe, T Wang, CF Kerl, B Planer-Friedrich… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Projections of global rice yields account for climate change. They do not, however, consider
the coupled stresses of impending climate change and arsenic in paddy soils. Here, we …

Soil contamination, risk assessment and remediation

MA Ashraf, MJ Maah, I Yusoff - Environmental risk assessment of …, 2014 - books.google.com
Environment pollution is a burning topic of the day. Air, water and soil are being polluted
alike. Soil being a" universal sink" bears the greatest burden of environmental pollution. It is …

[HTML][HTML] Soil ecotoxicology: state of the art and future directions

CAM van Gestel - ZooKeys, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Developments in soil ecotoxicology started with observations on pesticide effects on soil
invertebrates in the 1960s. To support the risk assessment of chemicals, in the 1980s and …

Concentration levels of metals in vegetables grown in soils irrigated with river water in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Y Weldegebriel, BS Chandravanshi… - … and Environmental Safety, 2012 - Elsevier
Samples of vegetables, water and soil were collected from four vegetable farms in Addis
Ababa to evaluate the extent and trend of metal accumulation in these systems and health …

Ecological risk threshold for Pb in Chinese soils

L Qin, X Sun, L Yu, J Wang, S Modabberi… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Derivation of ecological risk threshold (the threshold concentration value that protect a
certain proportion of species within the acceptable hazard level) of lead (Pb) is a yardstick …

Earthworm indicators as tools for soil monitoring, characterization and risk assessment. An example from the national Bioindicator programme (France)

G Pérès, F Vandenbulcke, M Guernion, M Hedde… - Pedobiologia, 2011 - Elsevier
Considering the limited number of bioindicators available to assess soil quality, a national
research programme was set up in France to develop such indicators (2006–2012), the …

Biotesting of soil ecotoxicity in case of chemical contamination: modern approaches to integration for environmental assessment (a review)

VA Terekhova - Eurasian Soil Science, 2022 - Springer
The main directions of using biotesting to assess the environmental risk of pollution—(a)
predictive (predicting possible effects of chemicals and determining safe levels of their use) …

Microbial community structure and functioning along metal pollution gradients

H Azarbad, M Niklińska, CAM van Gestel… - Environmental …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Toxic effects of heavy metals on soil microorganisms have been confirmed in a number of
laboratory studies. However, most real‐field studies do not allow for strong general …