About the Book: Soil Remediation and Plants: Prospects and Challenges
The soil is being contaminated continuously by a large number of pollutants.
Among them, heavy metals are an exclusive group of toxicants because they are
stable and difficult to disseminate into non-toxic forms. The ever-increasing
concentrations of such pollutants in the soil are considered serious threats
toward everyones health and the environment. Many techniques are used to clean,
eliminate, obliterate or sequester these hazardous pollutants from the soil.
However, these techniques can be costly, labor intensive, and often disquieting.
Phytoremediation is a simple, cost effective, environmental friendly and
fast-emerging new technology for eliminating toxic heavy