LITHIUM & NICKEL CONTAMINATION IN PLANTS & THE ENVIRONMENT

This edited volume brings together a diverse group of environmental science, sustainability and health researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by lithium and nickel contamination of soil and plants. The book sheds light on this global environmental issue and proposes solutions to contamination through multi-disciplinary approaches and case studies from different parts of the world.

This book is a valuable resource to students, academicians, researchers, and environmental professionals who are doing field work on lithium and nickel contamination throughout the world.

Contents:

• Distribution of Lithium/Nickel in Soil and Its Uptake by Plants (Pavel Otřísal and Jozef Sabol)
• Contamination of Lithium in Soils and Its Uptake in Plant Species (Anitha Karri, Tamanna Parida, Shaik Riyazuddin, Namuduri Srinivas)
• Physiological Responses of Plants to Environmental Lithium Pollution (David W M Leung and Peter J Prendergast)
• Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Crop Plants to Nickel Toxicity (Kiran Saroy, Aditi Bisht, and Neera Garg)
• Approaches to Antioxidant Defense System: An Overview of Coping Mechanism Against Lithium/Nickel Exposure in Plants (Rania M Mahmoud and Mai Sayed Fouad)
• Different Impacts of Ni²⁺ and Li⁺ to Plants and Mycorrhiza Systems: Roles of Bioligands Forming Metal-Binding Complexes in Cells and Apoplasts (Masahiro Inouhe, Yui Katsuta, Aki Kato, Hirotaka Kato, Yoh Sakuma, Clemens Walther, Veenu Joon and Dharmendra K Gupta)
• Nickel Disorder in Plants on Ultramafic Soils (Takafumi Mizuno)
• Ecotoxicity, Oxidative Stress and Phytoremediation of Nickel on Aquatic Plants (Walter Darío Di Marzio, María Elena Sáenz and Ricardo Santiago Martinez)
• Bioremediation of Lithium and Nickel from Soil and Water (Veysel Turan)
• Occurrence and Speciation of Ni in the Environment and the Health Risk to Living Organisms (Arnab Patra, Nargis Khatun, Trishna Mandal, Sk Mehebub Rahaman, and Bidyut Saha)
• Health Risks and the Regulations Linked to the Li/Ni Toxicity in Food and the Environment (Jozef Sabol and Pavel Otřísal)

Readership: Teachers, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in related fields, especially those specializing in the remediation of heavy metals and metalloids.

Key Features:

• This book will provide an overview on, and present the state-of the art in lithium and nickel and their remediation processes in a form comprehensible to environmental scientists and researchers
• This book will also be helpful for university students and teachers in related fields, especially those specializing in the remediation of heavy metals and metalloids
• This book will be a ready reference for people working with lithium and nickel mitigation, like Government bodies, NGOs, and implementers