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Phytoremediation toward Air Pollutants: Latest Status and Current Developments

In: Air Pollution - Latest Status and Current Developments

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  • Mahinder Partap
  • Diksha Sharma
  • Deekshith HN
  • Meenakshi Thakur
  • Vipasha Verma
  • Bhavya Bhargava
  • Anjali Chandel

Abstract

In recent years, air pollution has become one of the major environmental concerns that threaten health of the living organisms and its surroundings. Increasing urbanization, industrialization, and other anthropogenic activities impaired the air quality of indoor and outdoor environment. However, global organizations are focusing on ecological and biological means of solutions to reduce or eliminate dangerous contaminants from ecosystems in a sustainable manner. In this fact, plants are capable of improving or cleansing air quality and reduce the concentration of harmful pollutants from the environment through various remediation processes. Plants interact with air pollutants and fix them through various biological mechanisms in both associated and non-associated forms of microbes. In association forms, the mutualistic interaction of plant and microbes leads to higher growth efficiency of plants and results in enhanced pollutant degradation in rhizosphere as well as phyllosphere. In this background, the book chapter provides a comprehensive discussion of the existing literature and recent advances in phytoremediation process for the mitigation of harmful air pollutants. The role of indoor plants and aids for the enhancement of phytoremediation process towards air pollutants are also discussed.

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  • Mahinder Partap & Diksha Sharma & Deekshith HN & Meenakshi Thakur & Vipasha Verma & Bhavya Bhargava & Anjali Chandel, 2023. "Phytoremediation toward Air Pollutants: Latest Status and Current Developments," Chapters, in: Murat Eyvaz & Ahmed Albahnasawi & Motasem Y. D. Alazaiza (ed.), Air Pollution - Latest Status and Current Developments, IntechOpen.
  • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:307946
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.111559
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    Keywords

    air pollution; phytoremediation; microbes; indoor gardens; biotechnological advancement;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling

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