Organic Xenobiotics and Plants

1. Plant Uptake of Xenobiotics
Chris D. Collins, Ian Martin, William Doucette

2. Haloorganics in Temperate Forest Ecosystems: Sources, Transport and Degradation
Nicholas Clarke, Milan Gryndler, Hans-Holger Liste, Reiner Schroll, Peter Schröder, Miroslav Matucha

3. Semivolatiles in the Forest Environment: The Case of PAHs
Claudio A. Belis, Ivo Offenthaler, Peter Weiss

4. A Case Study: Uptake and Accumulation of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Cucurbitaceae Species
András Bittsánszky, Gábor Gullner, Gábor Gyulai, Tamas Komives

5. Trichloroacetic Acid in the Forest Ecosystem
Miroslav Matucha, Peter Schröder

6. Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Switzerland Related to Long-Range Transboundary Transport – Results of a Case Study with Special Emphasis on the Spatial Distribution of Polycyclic Aromatic and Chlorinated Air Borne Pollutants
Rolf Herzig, Christoph Bieri, Andreas Weber, Peter Straehl

7. New Perspectives on the Metabolism and Detoxification of Synthetic Compounds in Plants
Robert Edwards, David P. Dixon, Ian Cummins, Melissa Brazier-Hicks, Mark Skipsey

8. Using Plants to Remove Foreign Compounds from Contaminated Water and Soil
Jean-Paul Schwitzguébel, Valérie Page, Susete Martins-Dias, Luísa C. Davies, Galina Vasilyeva, Elena Strijakova

9. Biodegradation of Organic Xenobiotic Pollutants in the Rhizosphere
Hassan Azaizeh, Paula M. L. Castro, Petra Kidd

10. Bioindicators and Biomonitors: Use of Organisms to Observe the Influence of Chemicals on the Environment
Bernd Markert, Simone Wünschmann

11. SAR Based Computational Models as Decision Making Tools in Bioremediation
Nick Price, Qasim Chaudhry

12. State-of-the-Art Chemical Analyses: Xenobiotics, Plant Proteomics, and Residues in Plant Based Products
Touradj Solouki, Mohammad Ali Khalvati, Mahsan Miladi, Behrooz Zekavat

Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Physiology, Ecotoxicology, Agriculture, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Plant Ecology