Environmental Pollution Impact on Plants
eBook - ePub

Environmental Pollution Impact on Plants

Survival Strategies under Challenging Conditions

  1. 276 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Environmental Pollution Impact on Plants

Survival Strategies under Challenging Conditions

About this book

This new volume studies the impact and management of environmental pollution on plants, often resulting in plant abiotic stress physiology, which causes reduction in growth due to alterations in biochemical and physiological processes, thus threatening food security, the ecosystem, and the plants themselves. This volume details the harm to plants caused primarily by heavy metal contamination in soils, by pesticides use, and by air pollution and presents several mitigation strategies as well.

Soils contaminated with heavy metals is a major challenge worldwide due to increase in anthropogenic and geologic activities. Despite the effectiveness of pesticides in preventing pest invasions and yield decline, pesticides and other air pollutants cause biochemical changes that can instigate leaf damage, stomatal impairment, early senescence, decrease in photosynthetic efficiency, interruption of membrane perviousness, and decrease of growth and yield in sensitive plant types.

Chapters in this volume address these issues. Topics include the antioxidant, photosynthesis, and growth characteristics of plants grown in polluted soils; the benefits and hazards of pesticides; microbe-assisted bioremediation and biotechnological advances for plant pollution control; genetically modified plants and their potential resistance to environmental pollution; and more.

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Yes, you can access Environmental Pollution Impact on Plants by Tariq Aftab, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Tariq Aftab,Khalid Rehman Hakeem in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Biology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. About the Editors
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Preface
  10. 1 Effect of Heavy Metal Polluted Soil on Physiology and Biochemistry of Plants
  11. 2 Pesticides and Their Impacts: Benefits and Hazards
  12. 3 Antioxidant, Photosynthesis, and Growth Characteristics of Plants Grown in Polluted Soils
  13. 4 Impact of Pesticide Use in Agriculture
  14. 5 Effect of Environmental Pollution on the Generation of Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plant Tissues
  15. 6 Plants and Microbe-Assisted Bioremediation of Heavy Metal Pollution in the Environment
  16. 7 Bioinformatical and Biotechnological Advances for Bioremediation and Plant Pollution Control
  17. 8 Ceratophyllum demersum (L.): An Aquatic Macrophyte for Phytoremediation
  18. 9 Genetically Modified Plants (GMPs) and Their Potential in Protection, Constraints, Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities Against Environmental Pollution
  19. 10 Detoxification of Sewage Sludge by Natural Attenuation and Application as a Fertilizer
  20. Index