This 4-volume set focuses on the use of microbial bioremediation and phytoremediation to clean up pollutants in soil, such as pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons, metals, and chlorinated solvents, which reduce the soil's fertility and renders it unfit for plant growth.
Volume 2: Microbial Approaches and Recent Trends focuses on new and emerging techniques and approaches to address soil pollution. These include the use of rhizobacteria, archaea, cyanobacteria, and microalgae as biofertilizers and for soil bioremediation efforts. New technologies for assessment of soil bioremediation are explored also. The chapters provide in-depth coverage of the mechanisms, advantages, and disadvantages of the technologies used and highlight the use of different microbial enzymes that are used in the process of bioremediation and phytoremediation to clean up different pollutants without causing damage to the natural environment.
Other volumes in the 4-volume set:
Volume 1: Fundamental Aspects and Contaminated Sites
Volume 3: Inventive Techniques, Research Methods, and Case Studies
Volume 4: Degradation of Pesticides and Polychlorinated Biphenyls
Together, these four volumes provide in-depth coverage of the mechanisms, advantages, and disadvantages of the bioremediation and phytoremediation technologies for safe and sustainable soil management. The diverse topics help to arm biologists, agricultural engineers, environmental and soil scientists and chemists with the information and tools they need to address soil toxins that are a dangerous risk to plants, wildlife, humans and, of course, the soil itself.
Volume 2 of this 4-volume set focuses on rhizobacteria, archae, cyanobacteria, and microalgae as biofertilizers and for soil bioremediation. New technologies for assessment of soil bioremediation are explored.
PART 1: RHIZOREMEDIATION AND ARCHAEA
1. Role of Rhizobacteria in
Phytoremediation of Metal Contaminated Lands
2. Role of Archaea in the
Remediation of Contaminated Soils PART 2: ROLE OF MICROALGAE AND FUNGI IN
BIOREMEDIATION
3. Microalgae and Cyanobacteria: Potential Biofertilizers
4.
Microalgae as Biofertilizer for Sustainable Agricultural Productivity
5.
Microbial Biotechnology: Potential of Fungal Enzymes in Soil Bioremediation
6. Soil Bioremediation Strategies Based on Fungal Enzymes PART 3: RECENT
TRENDS AND APPROACHES IN BIOREMEDIATION
7. Assessment of Current Soil
Bioremediation Technologies
8. Sustainable Agroecosystems: Recent Trends and
Approaches in Phytoremediation and Rhizoremediation
9. Sustainable Soil
Health and Crop Improvement: Recent Trends in Bioremediation Tools
10.
Assessment of Remediation Efficiency: Microbial Indicators of Soil Health
11.
Recent Trends in Transgenic Plants for Enhanced Phytoremediation
12.
Nanobioremediation: An Integrated Approach for Management of Contaminated
Sites
Junaid Ahmad Malik, PhD, is a Lecturer with the Department of Zoology at Government Degree College, Bijbehara, Kashmir (J&K), India. He has published research articles and technical papers in international journals and has authored and edited books, book chapters, and popular editorial articles. He also serves as an editor and reviewer for several journals.
Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE, is a prolific author and editor. He is a retired professor from the College of Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico. A former soil conservation inspector, Dr. Goyal was proclaimed as the Father of Irrigation Engineering in Puerto Rico for the twentieth century by the ASABE, Puerto Rico Section, for his pioneering work on micro irrigation, evapotranspiration, agroclimatology, and soil and water engineering.
