Lead Toxicity Mitigation: Sustainable Nexus Approaches

Dr. Nitish Kumar is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research–Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He has more than 12 years of research and teaching experience in the field of plant and microbial biotechnology and bioremediation. He has published more than 70 research articles in leading international and national journals, more than 20 book chapters and 7 books with Springer and Taylor & Francis. He has received many awards/fellowships/projects from various organizations, for example, the CSIR, DBT, ICAR and SERB-DST, BRNS-BARC, among others. He is Active Reviewer for journals, including Biotechnology Reports, Aquatic Botany, Industrial Crops and Products, PLoS One, Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, and 3Biotech. He also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal Gene (Elsevier).Dr. Amrit Kumar Jha is Scientist (Soil Science) and Head at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sahibganj, Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. Dr. Jha completed his doctoral research in subject Soil science and Agricultural Chemistry from Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. He has more than 18 years of research experience in the field of soil chemistry, soil fertility, and soil pollution. He has published more than 40 research articles in leading international and national journals, more than 11 technical bulletins and 2 books. He has received many awards such as Young Scientist Award conferred by Society of Krishi Vigyan in 2018, Best KVK Scientist Award conferred by Indian Society of Extension Education in 2018, and Best KVK Scientist Award conferred by Society of Krishi Vigyan in 2020.

• Environmental lead exposure - A continuing challenge.- Effects of Lead: Neurological and Cellular Perspective.- Lead exposure and poisoning in livestock and wildlife.- A systematic review of lead exposure on mental health.- Human health hazards and risks generated by the implication/bioaccumulation of lead from the environment in the food chain.- Cellular and Neurological Effects of Lead (Pb) Toxicity.- Phytoremediation of lead present in environment: A review.- Application of nanoadsorbents for lead decontamination in water.- Microbial tolerance strategies against Lead toxicity.- Effects and responses of lead toxicity in plants.- Lead removal from naturally contaminated waters: a review of methods combining chemical and biological treatments.- Antioxidant defense: Key mechanism of lead intolerance.