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T1 Ornamental plants for the phytoremediation of heavy metals: Present knowledge and future perspectives
A1 Khan, Aqib Hassan Ali
A1 Kiyani, Amna
A1 Mirza, Cyrus Raza
A1 Butt, Tayyab Ashfaq
A1 Barros García, Rocío
A1 Ali, Basit
A1 Iqbal, Mazhar
A1 Yousaf, Sohail
A1 Barros, Rocío
K1 Ornamental plants
K1 Heavy metals
K1 Horticulture
K1 Phytoremediation
K1 Plant toxicity
K1 Suelos-Contenido de metales pesados
K1 Soils-Heavy metal content
K1 Plantas ornamentales
K1 Plants, Ornamental
AB Environmental matrices are polluted with the plethora of contaminants, and among these, the concerns related to heavy metals (HMs) are also included. Due to the low cost in a long-term application and environmental friendliness, the use of biological remediation has gained significant attention in recent decades. The use of ornamental plants (OPs) in the field of phytoremediation is scarcely reported, and the impacts of HMs on OPs have also not been investigated in great depth. The OPs mediated HMs remediation can simultaneously remove contaminants and bring improvement in aesthetics of the site. The biomass of OPs produced after such activities can be used and sold as pot plants, cut flowers, essential oils, perfumes, air fresheners production, metal phytomining, and feedstock in silk production. The OPs also present a lower risk of HMs bioaccumulation compared to crop plants. This review focuses on the current knowledge of HMs toxicity to OPs, their applicability advantages, methods to improve the tolerance of OPs with incremented HMs uptake, challenges in the field, and future application perspectives. The case studies realted to practical application of OPs, from China, Iran, India, Oman, Pakistan, and Turkey, were also discussed. This work fetches the inter-disciplinary features and understanding for the sustainable treatment of HMs in a new novel way, to which no previous review has focused
PB Elsevier
SN 0013-9351
YR 2021
FD 2021-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11833
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11833
LA eng
NO The authors acknowledge the contribution of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan for funding to the first author, Mr. Khan (Indigenous 5000 PhDs scheme, 2AV1-084, 2012)
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 10-jun-2026