Book Details

Biochemical Mechanisms of Detoxification in Higher Plants

Publication year: 2006

: 978-3-540-28997-5

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Plants play a key role in purifying the biosphere of the toxic effects of industrial activity. This book shows how systematic application of the results of investigations into the metabolism of xenobiotics (foreign, often toxic substances) in plants could make a vastly increased contribution to planetary well-being. Deep physiological knowledge gained from an accumulation of experimental data enables the great differences between the detoxifying abilities of different plants for compounds of different chemical nature to be optimally exploited. Hence planting could be far more systematically adapted to actual environmental needs than is actually the case at present.


: Chemistry and Materials Science, Plant physiology, biochemistry, biodegradation, biotechnology, ecosystem, metabolism, microorganism, organic pollutants, physiology, phytoremediation, xenobiochemistry