ADVANCEMENTS IN PLANT

PHYSIOLOGY AND HOW IT

CONTRIBUTES TO THE MITIGATION
OF POLLUTION

RHIZOSPHERE BIODEGRADATION
In agroecosystems, the rhizosphere is a major bottleneck
limiting nutrient transfer from soil to food chain.

WHAT IS RHIZOSPHERE BIODEGRATION?

Rhizosphere ecological
processes depicting
interactions between
plants, soils, and
microbes. Carbon
input from
aboveground to
belowground is a
driving force for the
rhizosphere
ecosystem's
functioning as well as
plant nutrient
acquisition from soil.

PROCESS OF RHIZOSPHERE
BIODEGRATION

Rhizoremediation
necessitates the
laboratory augmentation
of the necessary bacteria
(or consortia) to get a
sufficient number of
degradative bacteria to
inoculate plant seeds or
roots. The bacteria must
be able to flourish on the
root system under
natural settings after
being grown in the lab.

APPLICATIONS ON RHIZOSPHERE BIODEGRATION

 PHYTOEXTRACTION

WHAT IS PHYTOEXTRACTION?

Plants are used to remove

pollutants from soils.
Pollutant-accumulating
plants move and concentrate
pollutants (metals or
organics) from the soil into
above-ground branches; the
phrase is most commonly
used to apply to metal
removal from soils.

PROCESS OF
PHYTOEXTRACTION

BENEFITS OF PHYTOEXTRACTION

The plant-based
techniques have some
advantages over the
conventional strategies.
Therefore, the present
research has focused on
the various technologies
used to remove the metal
pollutants from natural
resources especially from
water and soil. These
affordable and effective
technologies are
potentially cost-effective
and environmental
friendly.
 PHYTOTRANSFORMATION

WHAT IS PHYTOTRANSFORMATION?

It is the breakdown of organic

pollutants sequestered by
plants through one of two
mechanisms: (1) internal
metabolic processes within
the plant; or (2) the action of
substances produced by the
plant, such as enzymes.

PROCESS OF
PHYTOTRANSFORMATION