Soil Heavy Metals

1. Soil: The Living Matrix
Helwig Hohl, Ajit Varma

2. Definition of “Heavy Metals” and Their Role in Biological Systems
Klaus-J. Appenroth

3. Soil Microbial Diversity in Relation to Heavy Metals
Shwet Kamal, Ram Prasad, Ajit Varma

4. Uptake and Effect of Heavy Metals on the Plant Detoxification Cascade in the Presence and Absence of Organic Pollutants
Lyudmila Lyubenova, Peter Schröder

5. Arbuscular Mycorrhiza, Heavy Metal,and Salt Tolerance
Hermann Bothe, Marjana Regvar, Katarzyna Turnau

6. Quantitative Analyses of Trace Elements in Environmental Samples: Options and (Im)possibilities
Katarina Vogel-Mikuš, Peter Kump, Marijan Nečemer, Primož Pelicon, Iztok Arčon, Paula Pongrac, Bogdan Povh, Marjana Regvar

7. At the Crossroads of Metal Hyperaccumulation and Glucosinolates: Is There Anything Out There?
Paula Pongrac, Roser Tolrà, Katarina Vogel-Mikuš, Charlotte Poschenrieder, Juan Barceló, Marjana Regvar

8. Plants Under Heavy Metal Stress in Saline Environments
Valentina Kholodova, Kirill Volkov, Vladimir Kuznetsov

9. Utilizing Microbial Community Structure and Function to Evaluate the Health of Heavy Metal Polluted Soils
M. Belén Hinojosa, Roberto García-Ruiz, José A. Carreira

10. Streptomycete Heavy Metal Resistance: Extracellular and Intracellular Mechanisms
Erika Kothe, Christian Dimkpa, Götz Haferburg, André Schmidt, Astrid Schmidt, Eileen Schütze

11. Effects of Heavy Metals on Soil Enzyme Activities
Ayten Karaca, Sema Camci Cetin, Oguz Can Turgay, Ridvan Kizilkaya

12. Effect of Heavy Metals on Saprotrophic Soil Fungi
Petr Baldrian

13. Copper-Containing Oxidases: Occurrence in Soil Microorganisms, Properties, and Applications
Harald Claus

14. Biomethylation of Heavy Metals in Soil and Terrestrial Invertebrates
Burkhard Knopf, Helmut König

15. Phytostabilization of Lead-Polluted Sites by Native Plants
Andrea Zanuzzi, Angel Faz Cano

16. Impact of Heavy Metals on Sugarcane
D. V. Yadav, Radha Jain, R. K. Rai

17. Effects of Earthworms on the Availability and Removal of Heavy Metals in Soil
Ayten Karaca, Ridvan Kizilkaya, Oguz Can Turgay, Sema Camci Cetin

18. Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils
T. J. Purakayastha, P. K. Chhonkar

19. Remediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Tropical Land
Preeti Saxena, Neelam Misra

Nyckelord: Life Sciences, Agriculture, Soil Science & Conservation, Plant Biochemistry, Terrestrial Pollution