This text details the plant-assisted remediation method ¿phytoremediation¿ which involves the
interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of
soil contaminated with high levels of metals pesticides solvents radionuclides explosives
crude oil organic compounds and various other contaminants. Many chapters highlight and
compare the efficiency and economic advantages of phytoremediation to currently practiced soil
and water treatment practices. Volume 5 of Phytoremediation: Management of Environmental
Contaminants provides the capstone of the series. Taken together the five volumes provide a
broad¿based global synopsis of the current applications of phytoremediation using plants and
the microbial communities associated with their roots to decontaminate terrestrial and aquatic
ecosystems.
