The use of in vivo biosensors to acquire environmental pollution data is an emerging and promising paradigm. One major challenge is the identification of highly specific biomarkers that selectively report exposure to a target pollutant, while remaining quiescent under a diverse set of other, often ...

The use of plant species to remove pollutants from soils is generally defined as phytoextraction. In order to evaluate phytoextraction of contaminated soils, a pot experiment was conducted using two plants Broad bean (Vicia faba), Wild mustard (Brassica arvensis) and three kinds of heavy metals...

Among the different contaminants in the environment, heavy metals (HMs) are unique due to the fact that they cannot be broken down to non-toxic forms. According to the reports published worldwide, these metals are released into the environment by both natural and anthropogenic sources, especially,...

Phytoremediation consists in treating environmental pollutions through the use of plants and their associated microbes. Phytoremediation can be used for pollutant stabilization, extraction, degradation or volatilization. Cadmium is one of the most toxic trace metallic elements for living organisms ...

Chemical speciation greatly influences the accumulation and distribution of metallic pollutants in plants. This study aimed at evaluating plant differential responses to various speciations of a same element. Uranium (U) was chosen as a model, to which wheat, oilseed rape and sunflower were...

This proceedings comprises 19 articles presenting topics on climate aspects of agricultural pollution, biological and chemical control of plant pathogens, toxicity and side effects of pesticides, uptake of toxic compounds by plants, regulations on hazardous compounds and pesticides, toxin...

Studying tolerance limits in organisms exposed to climatic variations is key to understanding effects on behaviour and physiology. The presence of pollutants may influence these tolerance limits, by altering the toxicity or bioavailability of the chemical. In this work, the plant species Brassica...

X-ray computed microtomography is a non-destructive technique which allows to study in 3D the texture of a solid material and of great interest for non-homogeneous ones. Coupled with image analyses software, the soil properties visually determined can be easily supported by statistics. This work...

Chemical and ecotoxicological properties of 28 sewage sludge samples from Spanish wastewater treatment plants were studied in order to assess their suitability for agricultural purposes. Sludge samples were classified into five categories according to specific treatment processes in terms of...

The fate of tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) and hexabromocyclododecane diastereomers (α-, β-, and γ-HBCD) and uptake by plants (cabbage and radish) was investigated. In a short-term (8 weeks) experiment, sorption to soil matrix resulted in 90% decline in recovery of these compounds in the...