Environmental Pollution Impact on Plants: Survival Strategies under Challenging Conditions

ISBN-13: 9781774911242 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 276 str.

Tariq Aftab; Khalid Rehman Hakeem

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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.

Spis treści

1. Effect of Heavy Metal Polluted Soil on Physiology and Biochemistry of Plants 2. Pesticides and Their Impacts: Benefits and Hazards 3. Antioxidant, Photosynthesis, and Growth Characteristics of Plants Grown in Polluted Soils 4. Impact of Pesticides Use in Agriculture 5. Effect of Environmental Pollution on the Generation of Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plant Tissues 6. Plants and Microbe-Assisted Bioremediation of Heavy Metals Polluted Environments 7. Bioinformatical and Biotechnological Advances for Bioremediation and Plant Pollution Control 8. Ceratophyllum demersum (L.): An Aquatic Macrophyte for Phytoremediation 9. Genetically Modified Plants (GMPs) and Their Potential in Protection, Constraints, Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities against Environmental Pollution 10. Detoxification of Sewage Sludge by Natural Attenuation and Application as a Fertilizers