| Title |
Phytoremediation Potential of Aquatic Macrophyte, Azolla
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Ambio, June 2011
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| DOI | 10.1007/s13280-011-0159-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Anjuli Sood, Perm L. Uniyal, Radha Prasanna, Amrik S. Ahluwalia |
| Abstract |
Aquatic macrophytes play an important role in the structural and functional aspects of aquatic ecosystems by altering water movement regimes, providing shelter to fish and aquatic invertebrates, serving as a food source, and altering water quality by regulating oxygen balance, nutrient cycles, and accumulating heavy metals. The ability to hyperaccumulate heavy metals makes them interesting research candidates, especially for the treatment of industrial effluents and sewage waste water. The use of aquatic macrophytes, such as Azolla with hyper accumulating ability is known to be an environmentally friendly option to restore polluted aquatic resources. The present review highlights the phytoaccumulation potential of macrophytes with emphasis on utilization of Azolla as a promising candidate for phytoremediation. The impact of uptake of heavy metals on morphology and metabolic processes of Azolla has also been discussed for a better understanding and utilization of this symbiotic association in the field of phytoremediation. |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| India | 2 | <1% |
| Philippines | 1 | <1% |
| Russia | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 358 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 56 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 52 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 46 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 22 | 6% |
| Researcher | 20 | 6% |
| Other | 48 | 13% |
| Unknown | 119 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 86 | 24% |
| Environmental Science | 62 | 17% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 21 | 6% |
| Engineering | 21 | 6% |
| Chemistry | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 37 | 10% |
| Unknown | 130 | 36% |
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