Genetically Modified Organism in phytoremediation of organic contamination

• Authors: A. Zemleduch , B. Tomaszewska
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In order to increase remediation potential of the plants used for recultivation of contaminated environment, attempts are being made to increase their tolerance, accumulation and degradation of particular pollutants. The plants are modified by conventional methods of reproduction, hybridization, formation of interspecies hybrids, as well as by genetic modification. Owing to the introduction of foreign genes, the produced plants show increased or decreased activity of the desired metabolic pathways, higher biomass and growth, and increased activity of the enzymes limiting phytoremediation of particular xenobiotics or the presence of relatively new biochemical properties. The paper discusses the latest results of plant modification at the level of natural metabolic pathways, transgenic plants with new properties, genetic modifications of endophytes and application of immunonodulation that increases protection against xenobiotics

Keywords

EN

PHYTOREMEDIATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT

Discipline

• BIOTECHNOLOGY: BIOTECHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee of Biotechnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Biotechnologia
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 66-81

Contributors

author

A. Zemleduch

author

B. Tomaszewska

• Document Type: REVIEW
• Publication order reference: Barbara Tomaszewska, Zaklad Biochemii, Instytut Biologii Molekularnej i Biotechnologii, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, ul. Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznan, Poland