Review article

https://doi.org/10.15255/KUI.2019.033

Phytoremediation – Overview and Perspective

Nevena Milčić orcid.org/0000-0003-0712-2417 ; Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology University of Zagreb, Marulićev trg 19 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Zvjezdana Findrik Blažević orcid.org/0000-0002-5312-8951 ; Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology University of Zagreb, Marulićev trg 19 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Marija Vuković Domanovac orcid.org/0000-0001-5818-7347 ; Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology University of Zagreb, Marulićev trg 19 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Remediation of soils contaminated with complex mixtures of organic compounds and heavy metals is one of the greatest challenges of environmental renewal. Phytoremediation is the name for a set of techniques that employ plants, their enzymes, and associated microorganisms in the root zone for isolation, transport, detoxification, and mineralization of xenobiotics in the soil, thereby reducing their concentration, mobility or toxic effects. Phytoextraction, phytostabilization, phytovolatization, phytodegradation, and rhizodegradation have a great potential for non-destructive remediation of soils as shown by numerous laboratory-scale studies. In order for phytoremediation to become a reliable technology for a wide range of applications at a larger scale, resources need to be invested in a new research with an aim to better understand the process as a whole, especially at the genetic and biochemical levels.


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Keywords

phytomediation; soil contamination; heavy metals; organic pollutants; xenobiotics

Hrčak ID:

225293

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/225293

Publication date:

7.10.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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