Soil Bioremediation

This book is presented on bioremediation of soil including different aspects for sustainable development of agriculture, environment, etc. In the current book, significant attention is being paid to soil remediation utilizing plants and microbes because of their metabolomics, molecular mechanisms, biochemical pathways, bioengineering, and cost-effective nature in an eco-friendly green approach. The chapters of this book present a detailed account on phytoremediation, microbial remediation; application of different plants and microorganisms for bioremediation in agricultural soil; nanoparticles and metabolites produced by plants and microbes for bioremediation of soil; multidisciplinary approaches of bioremediation to alleviate major soil contamination issues, molecular mechanisms, and biochemical approach of bioremediation of soil; plants and microbial engineering for bioremediation; recent advances and challenges; and future prospects of bioremediation of contaminated soil.All the chapters are focused on utilization of plants and microbial diversity for sustainable development of the soil ecosystem. This book provides an outline of the science behind the multidisciplinary aspects of bioremediation. It summarizes a solid foundation in the fundamentals and progresses to practical applications in this field. It structures stepwise route for a number of effective techniques to screen, select, identify, and utilize plants and microbes for the remediation of a contaminated site. It also focuses on the recent technologies related to bioengineering like myco-engineering technologies utilized for remediation of a polluted site soil. The book also includes the theoretic groundworks of bioremediation, bio-metabolism in remediation, or modeling approaches to plant and microbial physiology in remediation. The techniques covered in this book will ensure that scientists have the knowledge to practice effective bioremediation techniques themselves in a contaminated ecosystem. Recent progress in the field of bioremediation using genetic engineering has larger perspectives in commercial-scale production. However, its large-scale implementation is still challenging; hence, to resolve this problem, it is essential to utilize proper biological agents by developing novel technologies to improve the process of bioremediation to fulfill the current and future agricultural and other demands. Considering this fact, this book has concentrated also on recent advances, challenges, and future prospects in soil bioremediation. This book is useful to biologists, botanists, environmentalists, agronomists, soil scientists, chemical engineers, bioengineers, genetic engineers, physiologists, molecular biologists, policymakers, conservationists, NGOs working for environment protection, etc. The authors are thankful to the contributors of this book for their cooperation and patience in the compilation of this task. The authors are also thankful to Springer team, for their constant support in the publication of this book.