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Biochemical Mechanisms of Detoxification in Higher Plants - Basis of Phytoremediation
Kvesitadze, G., Khatisashvili, G., Sadunishvili, T., Ramsden, J.
Springer
2006
Hardcover X, 256 p. 96 illus ISBN 3540289968
£100.00
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Plants play a key role in purifying the biosphere of the toxic effects of industrial activity. This book shows
how systematic application of the results of investigations into the metabolism of xenobiotics (foreign,
often toxic substances) in plants could make a vastly increased contribution to planetary well-being. Deep
physiological knowledge gained from an accumulation of experimental data enables the great differences
between the detoxifying abilities of different plants for compounds of different chemical nature to be optimally
exploited. Hence planting could be far more systematically adapted to actual environmental needs than is actually
the case at present.
The book could form the basis of specialist courses in universities and polytechnics devoted to
environmental management, and advanced courses in plant physiology and biochemistry, for botany and
integrative biology students. Fundamental plant physiology and biochemistry from the molecular level to
whole plants and ecosystems are interwoven in a powerful and natural way, making this a unique contribution
to the field.
Written for: Chemical industry, agricultural and food industry; biotechnologists, biologists, chemists, postgraduate and
graduate students in the mentioned fields, environmental planners
Contents
Chapter 1. Plant and environment
1.1 Sources of pollution
1.2 Pollutants migration in different ecological systems
1.3 Plants, microorganisms, animals and environment
1.4 Physiology of pollutants absorption and penetration in plants
1.5 Action of penetrated pollutants on plant cell: ultrastructural organization, energetic
and metabolic processes
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Chapter 2. The fate of pollutants in plant cell
2.1 Distribution of penetrated pollutants
2.2 Transformation
2.2.1 Conjugation with endogenous compounds
2.2.2 Degradation, Excretion, Plants potential and efficiency to absorb and metabolize pollutants
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Chapter 3. Ecotechnologies based on phytoremediation
3.1 Ecotechnological importance of plants
3.2 Existing phytoremediation technologies
3.3 Phytoremediation - effective natural tool for healthy planet
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