phytoextraction
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English
Etymology
From phyto- + extraction.
Noun
phytoextraction (usually uncountable, plural phytoextractions)
- A form of phytoremediation that exploits the process in which plants absorb substances, particularly heavy metals, from the environment and store them in their tissues.
- 1999, Rufus L. Chaney, Yin-Ming Li, Sally L. Brown, Faye A. Homer, Minnie Malik, J. Scott Angle, Alan J. M. Baker, Roger D. Reeves, Mel Chin, Chapter 7: Improving Metal Hyperaccumulator Wild Plants to Develop Commercial Phytoextraction Systems: Approaches and Progress, Norman Terry, Gary S. Banuelos (editors), Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soil and Water, page 151,
- Phytoextraction is fundamentally an agricultural technology. Connecting this agricultural production system to metal recovery technologies will be a challenge for researchers and managers of phytoextraction enterprises.
- 2008, R. D. Tripathi, S. Srivastava, Seema Mishra, S. Dwivedi, “7: Strategies for Phytoremediation of Environmental Contamination”, in Bandana Bose, A. Hemantaranjan, editors, Developments in Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, volume 2, page 183:
- The success of phytoextraction depends on two components, the contaminated soil and the plant species.
- 2009, M. C. Lobo Bedmar, A. Pérez-Sanz, M.J. Martínez-Iñigo, A. Plaza Beníto, 20: Influence of Coupled Electrokinetic-Phytoremediation on Soil Remediation:
- Changes in the polarity of eletrodes during the process can avoid fixed redistribution of heavy metals and soil pH values that are associated with different rates of plant biomass and phytoextractions to the proximity to electrodes.
- 1999, Rufus L. Chaney, Yin-Ming Li, Sally L. Brown, Faye A. Homer, Minnie Malik, J. Scott Angle, Alan J. M. Baker, Roger D. Reeves, Mel Chin, Chapter 7: Improving Metal Hyperaccumulator Wild Plants to Develop Commercial Phytoextraction Systems: Approaches and Progress, Norman Terry, Gary S. Banuelos (editors), Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soil and Water, page 151,