Enhancing Cleanup of Environmental Pollutants

This two-volume workis an effort to provide a common platform to environmental engineers, microbiologists, chemical scientists, plant physiologists and molecular biologists working with a common aim of sustainable solutions to varied environmental contamination issues. Chapters explore biological and non-biological strategies to minimize environmental pollution.Highly readable entries attempt to close the knowledge gap between plant - microbial associations and environmental remediation. Volume 1 focuses on important concepts such asbiological remediation strategies to enhance soil quality at contaminated sites;synergistic influences of tolerant plants and rhizospheric microbial strains on the remediation of pesticide contaminated soil, andthe role of plant types such as hyperaccumulator plants in the cleanup of polluted soils. Readers will discovermechanisms and underlying natural inherent traits of various plants and microbes fortolerating, excluding, remediating, accumulating, or metabolizing a variety of pollutants.