Table Of ContentNaser A. Anjum · Sarvajeet Singh Gill
Narendra Tuteja Editors
Enhancing
Cleanup of
Environmental
Pollutants
Volume 1: Biological Approaches
Enhancing Cleanup of Environmental Pollutants
Naser A. Anjum • Sarvajeet Singh Gill
Narendra Tuteja
Editors
Enhancing Cleanup
of Environmental Pollutants
Volume 1: Biological Approaches
Editors
Naser A. Anjum Sarvajeet Singh Gill
CESAM-Centre for Environmental Stress Physiology and Molecular
and Marine Studies Biology Laboratory
Department of Chemistry Centre for Biotechnology
University of Aveiro Maharshi Dayanand University
Aveiro, Portugal Rohtak, Haryana, India
Narendra Tuteja
Amity Institute of Microbial Technology
Amity University
Noida, India
ISBN 978-3-319-55425-9 ISBN 978-3-319-55426-6 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55426-6
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Preface
Environmental and organismal (flora, fauna, and human) health can be impacted by
varied chemical pollutants, continuously increasing in major environmental com-
partments. Notably, the bioavailability, stabilization, and degradation of pollutants
are the major drivers that control the pollutant’s exclusion, remediation/accumula-
tion, and/or metabolism, performed by innovative technology involving biological
(plants and associated microbes, etc.) and/or non-biological/(electro)chemical
strategies.
This two-volume work is an effort to gather information on and get insights into
biological and non-biological (chemical) approaches extensively studied and
adopted for the speedy cleanup of pollutants from environmental compartments. In
Volume 1, (a) important concepts such as biological remediation strategies to
enhance soil quality at contaminated sites were overviewed; (b) synergistic influ-
ences of tolerant plants and rhizospheric microbial strains on the remediation of
pesticide-contaminated soil were highlighted; and (c) the role of plant types such as
hyperaccumulator plants in the cleanup of polluted soils was discussed. Overall, the
literature available on the major mechanisms and underlying natural inherent traits
of various plants and microbes for tolerating, excluding, remediating, accumulating,
or metabolizing a variety of pollutants were critically appraised and elaborated in
Volume 1. Non-biological (chemical) approaches for enhancing the cleanup of con-
taminated soils have been dealt in Volume 2. In brief, Volume 2 (a) highlighted
important concepts such as the role of metallic iron in the decontamination of
hexavalent chromium polluted waters; (b) discussed nanoscale materials and elec-
trochemical approaches used in water and soil remediation; and (c) elaborated in
detail the synthesis and characterization of cation composite exchange material and
its application in removing toxic metals.
A good equilibrium between theory and practice without compromising the
basic conceptual framework of the concerned topic has been ensured in this treatise.
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This work can be a useful asset to students, researchers, and policy makers special-
izing in the areas of soils/sediments and aquatic pollution, environmental chemistry/
microbiology/plant physiology/molecular biology, sustainable development, ecol-
ogy, soil biology, and related disciplines.
Aveiro, Portugal Naser A. Anjum
Rohtak, India Sarvajeet Singh Gill
Noida, India Narendra Tuteja
Acknowledgements
We are thankful to the contributors for their interest, significant contributions, and
cooperation that eventually made this book possible. Thanks are also due to all the
teachers, seniors and research students. We would especially like to thank our fam-
ily members as without their unending support, motivation and encouragement, this
gruelling task would have never been accomplished.
We would like to offer our sincere thanks to Dr. Sherestha Saini (editor,
Environmental Sciences, New York, USA) for her kind consideration of this vol-
ume. The exceptional kind support provided by Dr. Saini and Mr. Silembarasanh
Panneerselvam (Simbu) (book project coordinator, Springer Nature) and their team
at Springer deserves praises, which made our efforts successful.
The financial support to our research from the Foundation for Science and
Technology (FCT), Portugal; the Aveiro University Research Institute/Centre for
Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM); the Department of Biotechnology
(DBT); the University Grants Commission (UGC); and the Department of Science
and Technology (DST), New Delhi, India is gratefully acknowledged.
Editors
Naser A. Anjum
Sarvajeet Singh Gill
Narendra Tuteja
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Contents
Biological Approaches for Enhancing the Cleanup
of Environmental Pollutants: An Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Naser A. Anjum, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, and Narendra Tuteja
Degradation of the Dinitrotoluene Isomers 2,4- and 2,6-DNT:
Appraising the Role of Microorganisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Arturo Aburto-Medina, Mohamed Taha, Esmaeil Shahsavari,
and Andrew S. Ball
Bioremediation Approaches for Petroleum
Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Esmaeil Shahsavari, Gregory Poi, Arturo Aburto-Medina,
Nagalakshmi Haleyur, and Andrew S. Ball
Bioremediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons-Polluted Soils
at Laboratory and Field Scale: A Review of the Literature
on Plants and Microorganisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Fabián Fernández-Luqueño, Fernando López-Valdez,
Cesar R. Sarabia- Castillo, Selvia García-Mayagoitia,
and Sergio R. Pérez-Ríos
Organic Micropollutants in the Environment:
Ecotoxicity Potential and Methods for Remediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Muhammad Arslan, Inaam Ullah, Jochen A. Müller, Naeem Shahid,
and Muhammad Afzal
The Contributions of Mycorrhizas in the Mineralization
of Organic Contaminants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Chris O. Nwoko
Remediation of Mine Tailings and Fly Ash Dumpsites: Role
of Poaceae Family Members and Aromatic Grasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Ilika Ghosh, Manosij Ghosh, and Anita Mukherjee
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Bioremediation of Sulfide Mine Tailings: Response
of Different Soil Fractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
H. Cortez, A. Ballester, F. González, M.L. Blázquez, and J.A. Muñoz
Remediation of Polluted Soils Using Hyperaccumulator Plants . . . . . . . . 187
Neerja Srivastava
Metal Bioaccumulation by Plants in Roadside Soils:
Perspectives for Bioindication and Phytoremediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Luís A.B. Novo, Viviani C. Onishi, Cassiano A.R. Bernardino,
and Eduardo Ferreira da Silva
Soil Quality Protection at Heavy Metal- Contaminated
Manufactured Gas Plant Sites: Role of Biological Remediation . . . . . . . . 231
Martina Grifoni, Gianniantonio Petruzzelli, Meri Barbafieri,
Irene Rosellini, and Francesca Pedron
Plant Physiology Processes Associated with “Plant-Plant
Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria” Bioassays
for the Enhanced Heavy Metal Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Angélica Rodríguez-Dorantes and Leonor Angélica Guerrero-Zúñiga
Exploiting Nitrogen-Fixing Rhizobial Symbionts Genetic
Resources for Improving Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soils . . . . . 275
Alice Checcucci, Marco Bazzicalupo, and Alessio Mengoni
Environmental Bioremediation by Biosorption
and Bioaccumulation: Principles and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Raluca-Maria Hlihor, Laura-Carmen Apostol, and Maria Gavrilescu
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Contributors
Arturo Aburto-Medina Centre for Environmental Sustainability and
Remediation, School of Science, RMIT University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Puebla,
México
Muhammad Afzal Environmental Biotechnology Division, National Institute for
Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Naser A. Anjum CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies &
Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Laura-Carmen Apostol “Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Faculty of
Food Engineering, Suceava, Romania
Muhammad Arslan Environmental Biotechnology Division, Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany
RWTH Aachen University, Institute for Environmental Research, Aachen, Germany
Andrew S. Ball Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Remediation, School
of Science, RMIT University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
A. Ballester Departamento de Ciencia e Ingeniería de los Materiales, Facultad de
Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Meri Barbafieri Insitute of Ecosystem Study, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Marco Bazzicalupo Dipartimento di Biology, Università di Firenze, Sesto
Fiorentino, Italy
Cassiano A.R. Bernardino Department of Civil Engineering, Federal University
of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
M.L. Blázquez Departamento de Ciencia e Ingeniería de los Materiales, Facultad
de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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