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Bioremediation of Contaminated Paddy Soil

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Environmental Pollution of Paddy Soils

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 53))

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Rice is one of the most important cash crops in the world and is the sole source of food in many countries, such as China, Vietnam, and Bangladesh. With the rising global population, rice production has increased to a certain level to meet the nutritional demand, but there are still many challenges regarding its production and preservation. Paddy fields, which are found everywhere in the world, including in uplands, wetlands, rainfed pastures, or areas with deep water, provide an excellent environment for the natural production of rice.

The use of paddy fields is the major and most productive method for the production of rice. But problems related to paddy soil are enormous and are getting worse with the massive use of insecticides, pesticides, and herbicides. The accumulation of heavy metals in plants adversely affects human health. Remediation of these health hazardous compounds from paddy fields has always been a big challenge for producers, and many chemical methods have been adopted to detoxify and neutralize such hazardous compounds, but these methods have other side effects on the soil or the crop, or both. Bioremediation is a green technology that is used to remove heavy metals and other non-degradable substances from contaminated paddy soil, and it has significant effects in combating this disastrous problem. Designing and biosynthesis of potential microorganisms have always been topics of interest for scientists.

In this chapter, we have described many old and modern potential methods of bioremediation to enlighten the importance the importance and significance of this phenomenon in controlling contaminated paddy soil and eliminating contaminants.

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    Naseer Ali Shah, Imdad Kaleem, Asghar Shabbir & Ayesha Hammed Khattak

  2. Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Female Campus, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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Shah, N.A., Kaleem, I., Shabbir, A., Moneeba, S., Khattak, A.H. (2018). Bioremediation of Contaminated Paddy Soil. In: Hashmi, M., Varma, A. (eds) Environmental Pollution of Paddy Soils. Soil Biology, vol 53. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93671-0_16

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