Lead in Plants and the Environment

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This book examines the way that lead enters the biosphere and the subsequent environmental impact. The contributing authors include international experts who provide methods for assessing and characterizing the ecological risk of lead contamination of soil and plants. Information is provided on the consequences for human health as a result of lead pollution. This book reveals that approximately 98% of stable lead in the atmosphere originates from human activities. Lead in Plants and the Environment reports on methods for detecting, measuring, and assessing the concentration of lead in plants. The authors provide a method for the measurement of 210Pb isotopes in plants. This method can be applied extensively in different environmental settings, not only as a way of revealing sources of lead, but also as a way to monitor lead transport in plants and animals that ingest them. The chapters include coverage on the following topics: · Lead bioavailability in the environment and its exposure and effects · Radioanalytical methods for detecting and identifying trace concentrations of lead in the environment · Lead contamination and its dynamics in soil plant systems · Lead pollution monitoring and remediation through terrestrial plants in mesocosm constructed wetlands · A review of phytoremediation of lead This book is a valuable resource to students, academics, researchers, and environmental professionals doing field work on lead contamination throughout the world. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Major Analytical Methods for Determining Lead in Environmental and Biological Samples (Jozef Sabol)....Pages 1-13 Environmental Distribution and Modelling of Radioactive Lead (210): A Monte Carlo Simulation Application (Fatih Külahcı)....Pages 15-32 Lead Pollution and Human Exposure: Forewarned is Forearmed, and the Question Now Becomes How to Respond to the Threat! ( Natasha, Camille Dumat, Muhammad Shahid, Sana Khalid, Behzad Murtaza)....Pages 33-65 Impact of Lead Contamination on Agroecosystem and Human Health (Vasudev Meena, Mohan Lal Dotaniya, Jayanta Kumar Saha, Hiranmoy Das, Ashok Kumar Patra)....Pages 67-82 Lead Contamination and Its Dynamics in Soil–Plant System (M. L. Dotaniya, C. K. Dotaniya, Praveen Solanki, V. D. Meena, R. K. Doutaniya)....Pages 83-98 Lead Toxicity in Plants: A Review (Anindita Mitra, Soumya Chatterjee, Anna V. Voronina, Clemens Walther, Dharmendra K. Gupta)....Pages 99-116 Mechanisms Involved in Photosynthetic Apparatus Protection Against Lead Toxicity (Krzysztof Tokarz, Barbara Piwowarczyk, Wojciech Makowski)....Pages 117-128 Physiological and Biochemical Changes in Plant Growth and Different Plant Enzymes in Response to Lead Stress (Eda Dalyan, Elif Yüzbaşıoğlu, Ilgın Akpınar)....Pages 129-147 Biological Strategies of Lichen Symbionts to the Toxicity of Lead (Pb) (Joana R. Expósito, Eva Barreno, Myriam Catalá)....Pages 149-170 Phytoremediation of Lead: A Review (Bhagawatilal Jagetiya, Sandeep Kumar)....Pages 171-202 Back Matter ....Pages 203-207