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to plant-based remediation may prove beneficial to decontaminate environment of
contemporary nuclear age.
Acknowledgements S.C. sincerely acknowledges and thanks Director, DRL (DRDO), Assam,
India.
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67:45–53
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a uranium mining site. Rad Phys Chem 141:200–206
Chatterjee S, Singh L, Chattopadhyay B, Datta S, Mukhopadhyay SK (2012) A study on the waste
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Monit Assess 184:5139–5150
Chatterjee S, Mitra A, Datta S, Veer V (2013) Phytoremediation protocols: an overview. In: Gupta
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uranium contamination of groundwater resources in India. Environ Sci Technol Lett 5:341–347
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to plant-based remediation may prove beneficial to decontaminate environment of
contemporary nuclear age.
Acknowledgements S.C. sincerely acknowledges and thanks Director, DRL (DRDO), Assam,
India.
References
Acharya C (2015) Microbial bioremediation of uranium: an overview. BARC Newslett. March–
April: 27–30 (Online: www.barc.gov.in/publications/nl/2015/2015030407.pdf)
Acharya C, Apte SK (2013) Novel surface associated polyphosphate bodies sequester uranium in
the filamentous, marine cyanobacterium, Anabaena torulosa. Metallomics 5:1595–1598
Acharya C, Joseph D, Apte SK (2009) Uranium sequestration by a marine cyanobacterium,
Synechococcus elongatus strain BDU/7504. Bioresour Technol 100:2176–2181
Acharya C, Chandwadkar P, Apte SK (2012) Interaction of uranium with a filamentous, heterocystous, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium, Anabaena torulosa. Bioresour Technol 116:290–294
Amarillo National Resource Centre for Plutonium (ANRCP) (1998) Phytoaccumulation of chromium, uranium, and plutonium in plant systems (Online: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b5b
d/7e6656d9c1da24615d6ef3ad217d3843209a.pdf)
Anderson TA, Kruger EL, Coats JR (1994) Enhanced degradation of a mixture of three herbicides
in the rhizosphere of a herbicide-tolerant plant. Chemosphere 28:1551–1557
Baumann N, Arnold T, Haferburg G (2014) Uranium contents in plants and mushrooms grown on a
uranium-contaminated site near Ronneburg in Eastern Thuringia/Germany. Environ Sci Pollut
Res 21:6921–6929
Beazley MJ, Martinez RJ, Sobecky PA, Webb SM, Taillefert M (2007) Uranium biomineralization
as a result of bacterial phosphatase activity: insights from bacterial isolates from a contaminated subsurface. Environ Sci Technol 41:5701–5707
Berlin M, Rudell B (1986) Uranium. In: Friberg L, Nordberg GF, Vouk VB (eds) Handbook on the
toxicology of metals, 2nd edn. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, pp 623–637
Boghi A, Roose T, Kirk GJD (2018) A model of Uranium uptake by plant roots allowing for rootinduced changes in the soil. Environ Sci Technol 52:3536–3545
Bryan ND, Abrahamsen L, Evans N, Warwick P, Buckau G, Weng L, Van Riemsdijk WH (2012)
The effects of humic substances on the transport of radionuclides: recent improvements in the
prediction of behaviour and the understanding of mechanisms. Appl Geochem 27:378–389
Bunzl K, Kretner R, Schramel P, Szeles M, Winkler R (1995) Speciation of
238 U,
226
Ra,
210
Pb,
228 Ra, and Stable Pb in the soil near an exhaust ventilating shaft of a uranium mine. Geoderma
67:45–53
Charro E, Moyano A (2017) Soil and vegetation influence in plants natural radionuclides uptake at
a uranium mining site. Rad Phys Chem 141:200–206
Chatterjee S, Singh L, Chattopadhyay B, Datta S, Mukhopadhyay SK (2012) A study on the waste
metal remediation using floriculture at East Calcutta Wetlands, a Ramsar site in India. Environ
Monit Assess 184:5139–5150
Chatterjee S, Mitra A, Datta S, Veer V (2013) Phytoremediation protocols: an overview. In: Gupta
DK (ed) Plant Based Remediation Processes. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 1–18
Chen B, Roos P, Zhu YG, Jakobsen I (2008) Arbuscular mycorrhizas contribute to phytostabilization of uranium in uranium mining tailings. J Environ Radioact 99:801–810
Coyte RM, Jain RC, Srivastava SK, Sharma KC, Khalil A, Ma L, Vengosh A (2018) Large-scale
uranium contamination of groundwater resources in India. Environ Sci Technol Lett 5:341–347
Cumberland SA, Douglas G, Grice K, Moreau JW (2016) Uranium mobility in organic matter-rich
sediments: a review of geological and geochemical processes. Earth Sci Rev 159:160–185
D. K. Gupta et al.