Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils by Echinacea purpurea and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

As a potential bioremediation system for contaminated soils, I evaluated the use of an arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus, Glomus intraradices on roots and shoots uptake of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), alkyl PAHs, and toxic metals in Echinacea purpurea, in using a controlled 20-week gree...

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Main Author: Pretorius, Travers
Other Authors: Blais, Jules
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32500
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-5493