Environmental biotechnology: Utilisation of plant defensive mechanisms in phytoextraction

• Authors: M. Winska?Krysiak , S.W. Gawronski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This review summarises the mechanisms of heavy metal tolerance in plants. Plants have many endogenous genetic, biochemical, and physiological properties that make them ideal agents for soil and water remediation. Phytoremediation is widely viewed as an ecological alternative to the environmentally destructive physical remediation methods currently in use.

Keywords

EN

GLUTATHIONE; HEAVY METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN; PHYTOCHELATIN; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT

Discipline

• BIOTECHNOLOGY: BIOTECHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee of Biotechnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Biotechnologia
• Year: 2001
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 74-86

Contributors

author

M. Winska?Krysiak

author

S.W. Gawronski

• Document Type: REVIEW
• Publication order reference: M. Winska?Krysiak, Katedra Sadownictwa i Przyrodniczych Podstaw Ogrodnictwa, Szkola Glowna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego, ul. Nowoursynowska 166, 02?787 Warszawa, Poland