Title :
Current Status of Poplar for Phytoremediation
Author :
Zi, Wang ; Lvyi, Ma ; Zhongkui, Jia ; Chao, Qin
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. for Silviculture & Conservation of Minist. of Educ., Beijing Forestry Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Contaminant, such as heavy metals, organic pollutant, are released into the environment by mining, industry, agriculture to be severely harmful to people´s health. Phytoremediation is a low-cost and environmentally-friendly technology to clean up polluted sites. This article makes systematic introduction of phytoremediation, from theory to application, particularly recent research achievement of poplar, and discusses the development tendency. It can be used a reference for understanding phytoremediation development.
Keywords :
contamination; metals; pollution; agriculture; contaminant; heavy metal; industry; mining; organic pollutant; phytoremediation; polluted site cleaning; poplar; Agriculture; Biomass; Metals; Microorganisms; Soil; Vegetation; Water pollution; environment; phytoremediation; poplar; transgenic plant;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Distributed Control and Intelligent Environmental Monitoring (CDCIEM), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Changsha
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-278-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4350-5
DOI :
10.1109/CDCIEM.2011.304
