10 Environment Remediation Tools: Chemosensors and Biosensors . . 267
J. Brindha, Milind Shrinivas Dangate, and M. M. Balamurali
11 Adsorptive Chromatography: A Sustainable Strategy for Treatment
of Food and Pharmaceutical Industrial Effluents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Anand S. Gupta, Piyush Kumar, Soumya Pandit, and Ram Prasad
12 Remediation of Heavy Metals Through Genetically Engineered
Microorganism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Neerja Srivastava
13 Heavy Metal Removal Processes by Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria . . . . 367
María Isabel Neria-González and Ricardo Aguilar-López
14 Biological Implications of Dioxins/Furans Bioaccumulation in
Ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Jose Gnanaleela Aswin Jeno, Ravichandran Rathna,
and Ekambaram Nakkeeran
15 The Role of Microorganisms in Remediation of Environmental
Contaminants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Gaganpreet Kaur, Damanjeet Kaur, and Saurabh Gupta
16 Causes, Effects and Sustainable Approaches to Remediate
Contaminated Soil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Meenu Gautam, Srishti Mishra, and Madhoolika Agrawal
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