Overview
- Based on 40 years experimental data of the authors
- Written as a homogeneous whole
- Practical recommendations for environmental planners in a carefully compiled appendix
- Includes worked examples and solutions to problems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Plants play a key role in purifying the biosphere of the toxic effects of industrial activity. This book shows how systematic application of the results of investigations into the metabolism of xenobiotics (foreign, often toxic substances) in plants could make a vastly increased contribution to planetary well-being. Deep physiological knowledge gained from an accumulation of experimental data enables the great differences between the detoxifying abilities of different plants for compounds of different chemical nature to be optimally exploited. Hence planting could be far more systematically adapted to actual environmental needs than is actually the case at present.
The book could form the basis of specialist courses in universities and polytechnics devoted to environmental management, and advanced courses in plant physiology and biochemistry, for botany and integrative biology students. Fundamental plant physiology and biochemistry from the molecular level to whole plants and ecosystems are interwoven in a powerful and natural way, making this a unique contribution to the field.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biochemical Mechanisms of Detoxification in Higher Plants
Book Subtitle: Basis of Phytoremediation
Authors: George Kvesitadze, Gia Khatisashvili, Tinatin Sadunishvili, Jeremy J. Ramsden
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28997-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-28996-8Published: 25 January 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06702-0Published: 12 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-28997-5Published: 05 April 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 256
Number of Illustrations: 96 b/w illustrations
Topics: Biotechnology, Food Science, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Ecology, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Environmental Management