Soil Heavy Metals

Soil: The Living Matrix.- Definition of “Heavy Metals” and Their Role in Biological Systems.- Soil Microbial Diversity in Relation to Heavy Metals.- Uptake and Effect of Heavy Metals on the Plant Detoxification Cascade in the Presence and Absence of Organic Pollutants.- Arbuscular Mycorrhiza, Heavy Metal,and Salt Tolerance.- Quantitative Analyses of Trace Elements in Environmental Samples: Options and (Im)possibilities.- At the Crossroads of Metal Hyperaccumulation and Glucosinolates: Is There Anything Out There?.- Plants Under Heavy Metal Stress in Saline Environments.- Utilizing Microbial Community Structure and Function to Evaluate the Health of Heavy Metal Polluted Soils.- Streptomycete Heavy Metal Resistance: Extracellular and Intracellular Mechanisms.- Effects of Heavy Metals on Soil Enzyme Activities.- Effect of Heavy Metals on Saprotrophic Soil Fungi.- Copper-Containing Oxidases: Occurrence in Soil Microorganisms, Properties, and Applications.- Biomethylation of Heavy Metals in Soil and Terrestrial Invertebrates.- Phytostabilization of Lead-Polluted Sites by Native Plants.- Impact of Heavy Metals on Sugarcane.- Effects of Earthworms on the Availability and Removal of Heavy Metals in Soil.- Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils.- Remediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Tropical Land.