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Soil is a complex structure and encompasses five major components i.e. mineral matter, water, air, organic matter and living organisms. Soil pollution with heavy metals has become a critical environmental concern due to its potential adverse ecological impacts. The rapid industrialization and intensive agricultural activities over the last few decades have resulted in accumulation of various pollutants in the environment, which are distributed over wide areas by means of air and water. This type of contamination typically arises from the application of pesticides, percolation of contaminated surface water to subsurface strata, oil and fuel dumping, leaching of wastes from landfills or direct discharge of industrial wastes on land. During the past decades, the prevention of soil pollution and cleanup of contaminated soils have become a world-wide environmental priority. The goal of soil bioremediation is not only limited to enhance the timely degradation, transformation, remediation, or detoxification of these pollutants by biological means, but also to protect soil quality. The present book is an attempt to introduce several approaches by various scientist and researchers for soil remediation and risk assessment, including advances in phytoremediation and implementation of metabolomics in soil sciences.

Contents: Preface. 1. Effects of Contaminated Environment on Human Being, Animals and Plants/Farzana Khan Perveen. 2. Assessment of PGPR Bioinoculation in Heavy Metal Contaminated Agriculture Soils and their Impact on Morphological, Physiological, and Yield Behaviors of Crop Plants/Poonam Gusain ,Vir Singh, D.P. Uniya and B.S. Bhandari. 3. A Review on Contamination of Soil through Heavy Metals/Veethika Tilwankar, Swapnil Rai and S. P. Bajpai. 4. Contamination of Heavy Metals in Agricultural Soils: Sources, Ecological Consequences, and Remediation Measures/Vinod Kumar, A. K. Chopra, Roushan K. Thakur and Jogendra Singh. 5. An Efficient Approach Towards the Bioremediation of Heavy Metal Pollution from Soil and Aquatic Environment: An Overview/Vikas Kumar, Anjali Tiwari and Amar Prakash Garg. 6. Role of Earthworms in Managing Soil Contamination/Payal Garg and Geetanjali Kaushik. 7. Heavy Metal Contamination of Soil and Groundwater due to E-Waste Handling in Mandoli Industrial Area of Delhi, India/Sirajuddin Ahmed, Rashmi Makkar Panwar and Anubhav Sharma. 8. Riparian Vegetation Functions and Ecological Services: Interlinking Soil Environment Perspectives/M.K. Jhariya* and D.K. Yadav. 9. Impact of Textile Effluents on Soil Fertility in Pali District of Rajasthan/Meenu Srivastava and Vinita Koka. 10. An Introduction to Soil Contamination/Preeti Sharma, Geetanjly, AnkitaVerma and Anchala Nautiyal. 11. Study of Genetic Variability, Correlation and Path Analysis in Finger Millet (Eleusine Coracana Gaertn)/D.D.Kadam.