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Phytoremediation of Lead by Brassica juncea and Vetiver zizanioidus

Seema Dwivedi

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The engineering-based remediation technologies of heavy metals from contaminated soil are time consuming, expensive, and create noise to the environment. Accumulation of heavy metals such as Pb, Cd, Hg, Cr, and Ni is destructive to not only plants and animals but also to complete ecosystem. Lead contamination keeps on increasing day by day from industrial waste, paints, ceramics, use of biosolids, and many more. Metals cannot easily degrade, so effective remediation is required to reduce the toxicity. Phytoremediation is the most promising approach to degrade the contamination, this is environmental friendly, cost effective, socially accepted, easy to maintain, and it also has long-term applicability. It involves the growing hyperaccumulator plant species to detoxify and remove environmental contamination by biological, chemical, and physical processes of plants. Hyperaccumulators are plant species that achieve shoot to root metal concentration ratio greater than one. Brassica juncea and Vetiver grass are well known Pb hyperaccumulator. This paper describes the phytoremediation of lead using B. juncea and V. grass along with advantages and limitations of phytoremediation, effects of ROS in phytoremediation, and chelate-assisted phytoremediation.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijpb.v1i1-2.47

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