Fungi in Bioremediation

Book Overview

Bioremediation is an expanding area of environmental biotechnology, and may be defined as the application of biological processes to the treatment of pollution. Much bioremediation work has concentrated on organic pollutants, although the range of substances that can be transformed or detoxified by micro-organisms includes both natural and synthetic organic materials and inorganic pollutants, such as toxic metals. The majority of applications developed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521065313
• ISBN13: 9780521065313
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"