Overview
- Provides a comprehensive review on the reason of chromium toxicity, health risk and its mitigation strategies
- Addresses the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by chromium contamination of soil and plants
- Presents the most advanced biotechnology to extract chromium from water and soil
Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)
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This edited book brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability, and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by chromium contamination of soil and plants. In recent years, contamination of the environment by chromium has become a major concern. Chromium is a non-degradable, harmful, and toxic pollutant which negatively affects the environment. It is unique among the heavy metals found in industrial wastewater and sewage and sludge, as it may exist as a trivalent cation and as anion in the hexavalent state in the pH range of agricultural soils. It is used on a large scale in many different industries, including metallurgy, electroplating, production of paints and pigments, tanning, wood preservation, chemical production, and pulp and paper production. These industries are contributing larger amount of chromium, which can ultimately have significant adverse effects on biological and ecological activities of ecosystem. Chromium enters the food chain through consumption of plant material. A high concentration of chromium has been found to be harmful to vegetation. As the chromium concentration in plants increases, it adversely affects several biological parameters and eventually renders the soil barren.
The book sheds light on this global environmental issue and proposes solutions to contamination through multi-disciplinary approaches and case studies from different parts of the world.
This book is a valuable resource to students, academicians, researchers, and environmental professionals who are doing field work on chromium contamination throughout the world.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chromium in Plants and Environment
Editors: Nitish Kumar, Clemens Walther, Dharmendra K. Gupta
Series Title: Environmental Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44029-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44028-1Published: 21 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44031-1Due: 21 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44029-8Published: 20 December 2023
Series ISSN: 1863-5520
Series E-ISSN: 1863-5539
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 479
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biogeosciences, Environmental Health, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology