International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2016, Volume : 4, Issue : 2
First page : (327) Last page : (331)
Article doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2242
Phytoremediation and Phytotechnologies
Anamika Yadav, Neha Gheek Batra* and Ameeta Sharma
Department of Biotechnology, The IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: ngheek11@rediffmail.com
Received: 16.03.2016 | Revised: 23.03.2016 | Accepted: 26.03.2016
Abstract
Heavy metals are among the most important sorts of contaminant in the environment. Degradation of metals is not possible, so usually their removal is required in clean-up. Most of the technologies for conventional remediation are costly, inhibit soil fertility; and ultimately results in unfavourable impacts on the ecosystem. Currently, phytoremediation is an effective and affordable technological solution used to extract or remove inactive metals andmetal pollutants from contaminated soil and water. This technology is environmental friendly and potentially cost effective.The following review describes the stature of phytoremediation technologies. Natural metal hyperaccumulator phenotype is much more important than high-yield ability when using plants to remove metals from contaminated soils. The hypertolerance of metals is the key plant characteristic required for hyperaccumulation; vacuolar compartmentalization appears to be the source of hypertolerance of natural hyperaccumulator plants. In India, however phytoremediation is yet to become available as a commercial technology. Other initiatives targeted at dissemination, education and training should be activated in order to increase the familiarity and confidence of the public opinion in these new sustainable technologies.
Keywords: Contaminant, hyperaccumulator,metals, phytoremediation, technology.
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Cite this article: Yadav, A., Batra, N.G. and Sharma, A., Phytoremediation and Phytotechnologies, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci. 4(2): 327-331 (2016). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2242
