Arsenic Contamination in the Environment

Dharmendra K. Gupta is Sr. Scientist of Environmental Biotechnology at Institut für Radioökologie und Strahlenschutz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany and already published more than 80 refereed research papers/review articles in peer reviewed journals and edited nine books. His field of research includes abiotic stress by heavy metals/radionuclides and xenobiotics in plants; antioxidative system in plants; environmental pollution (heavy metal/radionuclide) remediation through plants (phytoremediation).Soumya Chatterjee is Sr. Scientist and head of the Department of Biodegradation Technology at Defence Research Laboratory (DRDO) at Tezpur, Assam, India. His area of research includes microbial biodegradation; abiotic stress in plants; bioremediation and phytoremediation; wastewater bacteriophages; sanitation; metagenomics. He has already published more than 60 refereed research papers/review articles, book chapters in peerreviewed journals/books (includes as editor of book and journal special issue).

• 1.Arsenic contamination from historical aspects till present situation.- 2.Arsenic: Source, occurrence, cycle and detection.- 3.Studies on arsenic and human health.- 4.Epigenetics in arsenic toxicity:Mechanistic response, alterations, and regulations.- 5.Prospects of combating arsenic: Physico-chemical aspects.- 6.Arsenic and its effect on major crop plants:  Stationary awareness to paradigm with special reference to rice crop.- 7.Uptake, transport and remediation of arsenic by plants.- 8.Genomics and genetic engineering in phytoremediation of arsenic.- 9.Perspectives of plant tissue culture research with a special focus on environmental arsenic pollution.- 10.Potential role of microbes in bioremediation of arsenic.