Overview
- Offers comprehensive background on emerging contaminants and their effects on plants
- Presents comprehensive coverage of metabolization and translocation of emerging contaminants by plants
- Covers phyto- and bio-remediation of contaminants by plants
Part of the book series: Emerging Contaminants and Associated Treatment Technologies (ECAT)
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About this book
Emerging contaminants (ECs) are predominantly unregulated anthropogenic chemicals that occur in air, soil, water, food, and plant/animal tissues in trace concentrations. ECs are persistent in the environment, capable of perturbing the physiology of target receptors and, therefore, are increasingly regarded as a subject of concern. This volume aims to enhance understanding of emerging contaminants’ effects on plants and the environment and to highlight and address the need of sustainable and eco-friendly approaches in mitigating and remediating the effects of ECs. The book comprises chapters from diverse areas dealing with biotechnology, microbial technology, nanotechnology, molecular biology, remediation, and more. This volume will be useful to remediation practitioners, researchers, regulators and graduate students.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Tariq Aftab received his Ph.D. in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India, and is currently an Assistant Professor there. He is the recipient of a prestigious Leibniz-DAAD fellowship from Germany, Raman Fellowship from the Government of India, and Young Scientist Awards from the State Government of Uttar Pradesh (India) and Government of India. After completing his doctorate, he has worked as Research Fellow at National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi and as Post-doctorate Fellow at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India. Dr. Aftab also worked as Visiting Scientist at Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany, and in the Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, USA. He has edited 15 books with with international publishers, co-authored several book chapters, and published over 70 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals. His research interests include physiological, proteomic, andmolecular studies on medicinal and crop plants.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emerging Contaminants and Plants
Book Subtitle: Interactions, Adaptations and Remediation Technologies
Editors: Tariq Aftab
Series Title: Emerging Contaminants and Associated Treatment Technologies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22269-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22268-9Published: 17 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22271-9Published: 17 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22269-6Published: 16 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-6402
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6410
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 353
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment, general, Environmental Chemistry, Plant Sciences