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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. The book could form the basis of specialist courses in universities and polytechnics devoted to environmental management, and advanced courses in plant physiology and biochemistry, for botany and integrative biology students. Fundamental plant physiology and biochemistry from the molecular level to whole plants and ecosystems are interwoven in a powerful and natural way, making this a unique contribution to the field.

Phytoremediation. --- Plants --- Metabolic detoxification. --- Metabolism. --- Effect of pollution on. --- Plants, Effect of pollution on --- Pollution --- Plant metabolism --- Metabolism --- Plant physiology --- Vegetation-based remediation --- Vegetative bioremediation --- Bioremediation --- Chemicals --- Detoxication, Metabolic --- Detoxification, Metabolic --- Metabolic detoxication --- Biotransformation (Metabolism) --- Metabolic conjugation --- Physiological effect --- Effect of anaerobiosis on --- Metabolic detoxification --- Biotechnology. --- Food science. --- Biochemistry. --- Plant Ecology. --- Environmental protection. --- Environmental management. --- Food Science. --- Plant Biochemistry. --- Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution. --- Environmental Management. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Botany --- Ecology --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Biology --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Science --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Composition --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Food—Biotechnology. --- Plant biochemistry. --- Plant ecology. --- Air pollution. --- Air --- Air contaminants --- Air pollutants --- Air pollution --- Air pollution control --- Air toxics --- Airborne pollutants --- Atmosphere --- Contaminants, Air --- Control of air pollution --- Pollutants, Air --- Toxics, Air --- Air quality --- Atmospheric deposition --- Phytochemistry --- Plant biochemistry --- Plant chemistry --- Biochemistry --- Phytochemicals --- Plant biochemical genetics --- Control --- Floristic ecology