Biochemical Mechanisms of Detoxification in Higher Plants: Basis of Phytoremediation

by George Kvesitadze, Gia Khatisashvili, Tinatin Sadunishvili, Jeremy J. Ramsden

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540289968
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	03/22/2006
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contaminants in the environment.- Uptake, translocation and effects of contaminants in plants.- The fate of organic contaminants in the plant cell.- The ecological importance of plants for contaminated environments.