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Phytoremediation of organic pollutants-contaminated environment: A research review

WEI Shuhe1; ZHOU Qixing1; Pavel V. Koval2;Galina A. Belogolova2   

  1. 1Key Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecological Process, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China;2Applied Geochemistry Department, Vinogradov Institute of Geochemistry, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk 664033, Russia

  • Received:2005-08-16 Revised:2005-12-20 Online:2006-06-10 Published:2006-06-10

Abstract: Phytoremediation is a kind of technology which can thoroughly remove organic pollutants from contaminated sites through phytoextraction, phytodegradation, and rhizosphere biodegradation. In contrast to many physical and chemical remediation technologies which are hardly used to clean organic pollutants- contaminated soil in large area because of their expensive cost and potential destruction to polluted environment, phytoremediation has the advantages of relatively lower cost, smaller environmental disturbance, and reuse of natural resources, and has been one of the hot spots and frontiers of environmental science. This paper reviewed the contamination mechanisms of main organic pollutants in environment and the recent studies on phytoremediation, and gave prospects on the strengthening methods of organic pollutantsphytoremediation.

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