With current intensive agriculture practices and industrialization, pollution of natural
resources like land and water with heavy metals, organic pollutants, radionuclides …

The contamination of soils with heavy metals represents a worldwide environmental
problem of great concern. Traditional methods for the remediation of metal contaminated …

Bioaugmentation is a promising method for assisting phytoextraction of heavy metals from
contaminated soil, and the development of bioaugmentation-assisted phytoextraction …

A short-term mesocosm experiment was conducted to ascertain the impact of tebuconazole
on soil microbial communities. Tebuconazole was applied to soil samples with no previous …

Microbes play a major role in medical technology, food processing, biotechnology,
agriculture and many other fields. The major route of pesticide exposure to microbes in the …

Soil pollution with heavy metals is a worldwide environmental problem. Phytoremediation
through phytoextraction and phytostabilization appears to be a promising technology for the …

Toxicity of metals released from mine tailings may cause severe damage to ecosystems. A
diversity of microorganisms, however, have successfully adapted to such sites. In this study …

Heavy metals when present in amounts equal to the geochemical background do not
interfere with the soil metabolism, which is associated with the growth and development of …

abstract In two long-term field experiments the zinc (Zn)/cadmium (Cd) hyperaccumulator
Sedum plumbizincicola (S. plumbizincicola) was examined to optimize the phytoextraction of …

An experiment was performed to study non-target effects of difenoconazole (fungicide),
deltamethrin (insecticide) and ethofumesate (herbicide) on microbial parameters in a clay …