Aquatic Contamination

Tolerance and Bioremediation

Rouf Ahmad Bhat, Gowhar Hamid Dar, Fernanda Maria Policarpo Tonelli, Saima Hamid

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781119989288
• eBook ISBN: 9781119989301
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

Aquatic Contamination

Authoritative resource presenting techniques and technologies to sustainably neutralize environmental contamination in aquatic plants, microorganisms, and more

Two thirds of the Earth is covered with aquatic habitats that play a key role in stabilizing the global environment and providing a wide variety of services to increasing human needs. Nevertheless, anthropogenic activities are rapidly destroying the quality of both fresh and marine waters globally, due to excessive use of chemicals, fertilizers and pollution from suburban and industrial areas eventually making their way into the aquatic world.

Aquatic Contamination: Tolerance and Bioremediation presents the broader spectrum of biological applicability of microbes with better understanding of cellular mechanisms for remediation of aquatic contaminants. The book also focuses on practices involved in molecular and genetic approaches, necessary to achieve targets of bioremediation and phytoremediation to solve global water contamination problems. Such approaches pave the way for the utilization of biological assets to design new, efficient, and environmentally sound remediation strategies by inculcating genomic techniques at cellular and molecular levels with model assessment.

Aquatic Contamination provides a comprehensive background for readers interested in all perspectives of the contamination of aquatic environs. It covers various research aspects which are being carried out globally to understand simulation models in the assessment of xenobiotics, role of genomics, transgenic plants, and microbial enzymes for degradation and removal of toxic substances in aquatic environs.

Key features include:

• Extensive coverage of interactions between plants, metals and microbes including the influence of biotic and abiotic factors
• Comprehensive discussion of the details of molecular mechanisms from assimilation to detoxification levels
• Exploration of the enzymatic approaches of potential plants acting as hyper-accumulators for contaminants in aquatic environs
• Details of sustainable tools such as transgenic plants for the manipulation of important functional microbial genes to achieve higher certainty of bioremediation
• Details of advances in tools and models like micro-arrays and simulation models for the complete assessment of xenobiotic compounds from cellular to degradation hierarchies

Aquatic Contamination: Tolerance and Bioremediation will be substantially helpful to environmentalists, microbiologists, biotechnologists and scientists, providing essential information on various modern technologies for the remediation of contaminants in aquatic ecosystems.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Aquatic Contamination
• Copyright
• dedication
• About the Book
• About the Editors
• Preface
• 1 Emerging Techniques for Treatment of Wastewater
• 2 Aquatic Ecosystems and Health Threats
• 3 Endophytic Fungi and Bacteria
• 4 Mechanism of Heavy Metal‐Induced Stress and Tolerance
• 5 Biotechnology for Sustainable Remediation of Contaminated Wastewater
• 6 Novel Trends of Biotechnology in Wastewater Treatment
• 7 Role of Free‐Floating Macrophytes in the Abatement of Disturbed Environments
• 8 Enzymatic Approach for Phytoremediation
• 9 Phyto‐Metalloproteins and Restoration of Freshwater Ecosystems
• 10 Phytoremediation
• 11 Biotechnological Advancements in Phytoremediation
• 12 Phytoremediation of Pesticides and Heavy Metals in Contaminated Environs
• 13 Biotechnological Interventions for Removal of Heavy Metals and Metalloids from Water Resources
• 14 Microbial Biofilms – Pollutant Load Suppressor
• 15 Recent Advances in the Biodegradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons
• 16 Green Synthesized Nanomaterials as Tools to Remediate Aquatic Pollution
• 17 Nanotechnology-Based Applications
• 18 Reliability on Nanoscience
• 19 Transgenic Plant Technology and its Role in Bioremediation
• 20 Comprehensive Note on Various Wastewater Treatment Strategies
• 21 Case Studies of Aquatic Contamination and Bioremediation
• Glossary
• Index
• End User License Agreement