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An Introduction to Bioremediation

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Book cover Fungi as Bioremediators

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 32))

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With the rising population of the world and daily life demands supplied through industries and modern industrialized agricultural systems, the need for preservation of ecosystems is increasingly revealed. The repeated occurrence of the calamities such as wars, earthquakes, and tsunamis are additional reasons that necessitate further attention to the cleaning of the polluted and/disrupted ecosystems. One of the most economical and stable approaches to cope with this vital task is the use of the techniques developed through progresses in an interdisciplinary science, bioremediation. Bioremediation as a branch of environmental biotechnology takes advantage of various living organisms including bacteria, fungi, algae, and plants in order to remediate the contaminated ecosystems. Here in this introductory chapter, bioremediation and bioremediation techniques are introduced, and fungal bioremediation (mycoremediation) is paid in detail as the main introductory part to the remnant of the present book.

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    Babak Pakdaman Sardrood

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    Ebrahim Mohammadi Goltapeh

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    Ajit Varma

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Sardrood, B.P., Goltapeh, E.M., Varma, A. (2013). An Introduction to Bioremediation. In: Goltapeh, E., Danesh, Y., Varma, A. (eds) Fungi as Bioremediators. Soil Biology, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33811-3_1

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