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Year: 2014 | Volume: 13 | Issue: 1 | Page No.: 28-31
DOI: 10.3923/biotech.2014.28.31
Phytoremediation Characteristics of Weeds and Mushrooms as a Metal Scavenger in Restoring Metal Contaminated Soil
Rafia Azmat, Sumeria Moin, Neelofer Hamid, Ailiya Saeed, Hajira Nasreen and Noushab Qamar

Abstract: The switch of polluted soils from heavy metals is the utmost challenging mission, predominantly on a huge scale. The soil is composed of organic and inorganic solid constituents, water and mixture of different gases present in various proportions. During prospective study about the accumulation of metals in plants; the enormous growth of weeds and mushrooms attract our attention to check these in comparison with growth of plant under investigation in the contaminated soil. It was established after checking the growth of plant under study that these weeds were supportive in growth regulation via accretion of metal leaving soil for growth of regular plant. It was observed that Myco-remediation competently collapse contaminants and heavy metals by directing them to the fruit bodies of mushrooms. It was related with capability of mushrooms to absorb the metal and act as a scavenger. The function was very clear after observing the growth of the plants under study and can easily be understood that fungal mycelia grip soil organized, aid in hold water and makes the nutrient accessible for vegetation. The mechanism of mushroom action to absorb the toxins via enzymes secretion into soil was developed. Their growth in contaminated environment opens new biological remediation techniques to secure the food chain even in presence of toxins. It was suggested on the basis of naturally grown spore of wild mushroom and weeds in metal contaminated environment; that it may be powerful tool in new emerging remediation technology at domestic and global hazardous waste management sites especially in developing countries, where toxins are in action and it’s a dream of safe atmosphere for just health of concerns.

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Rafia Azmat, Sumeria Moin, Neelofer Hamid, Ailiya Saeed, Hajira Nasreen and Noushab Qamar, 2014. Phytoremediation Characteristics of Weeds and Mushrooms as a Metal Scavenger in Restoring Metal Contaminated Soil. Biotechnology, 13: 28-31.

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