@misc{Welsh2024, author = {Welsh, Colin}, title = {Metal-plants and plant-metals phytoextraction by metallophytes : a review}, doi = {10.26127/BTUOpen-6795}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus4-67953}, year = {2024}, abstract = {Carbon emission output is one major global problem. Technologies considered environmentally friendly often come with massive drawbacks since current technologies rely on the use of (heavy) metals and rare earth elements (REEs) which have toxic effects when released into the environment. Phytoextraction may depict an innovative supply of metals, while removing contamination of agricultural land at the same time. Metallophytes are not only capable of surviving the toxicity of released metals, they are also able to extract metals from soil making the land usable for agricultural purposes. After doing so the biomass of these plants can be harvested and used to produce bio-ores with 99-100\% purity. Being deemed a scientific curiosity for long, research about these plants and their potential use has awakened from its 20 years long slumber and is growing at an accelerating pace. Usage of those phytes to recycle bottom ashes from municipal solid waste incineration, treat waste water and remediate closed mining sites and much more is germinating. Accumulating plants were put from field to the lab and more recently are being put back from the laboratories on the fields. The current gaps in available data are about to be filled and will show if these plants are able to deal with greater challenges than surviving under the conditions they do, which in itself is astonishing already.}, subject = {Bergbaufolgelandschaften; Bio-Erz; Phytoremediation; Bodensanierung; Chalkophyten; Bodensanierung; Hyperakkumulatoren; Agromining; Metallophytes; Phytoextraction; Phytomining; Metallophyten}, language = {en} } @misc{Welsh2024, author = {Welsh, Colin}, title = {Metal-plants and plant-metals phytoextraction by metallophytes : a review}, doi = {10.26127/BTUOpen-6669}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus4-66696}, year = {2024}, abstract = {Carbon emission output is one major global problem. Technologies considered environmentally friendly often come with massive drawbacks since current technologies rely on the use of (heavy) metals and rare earth elements (REEs) which have toxic effects when released into the environment. Phytoextraction may depict an innovative supply of metals, while removing contamination of agricultural land at the same time. Metallophytes are not only capable of surviving the toxicity of released metals, they are also able to extract metals from soil making the land usable for agricultural purposes. After doing so the biomass of these plants can be harvested and used to produce bio-ores with 99-100\% purity. Being deemed a scientific curiosity for long, research about these plants and their potential use has awakened from its 20 years long slumber and is growing at an accelerating pace. Usage of those phytes to recycle bottom ashes from municipal solid waste incineration, treat waste water and remediate closed mining sites and much more is germinating. Accumulating plants were put from field to the lab and more recently are being put back from the laboratories on the fields. The current gaps in available data are about to be filled and will show if these plants are able to deal with greater challenges than surviving under the conditions they do, which in itself is astonishing already.}, subject = {Phytomining; Phytoextraction; Metallophytes; Bodensanierung; Bio-Erz; Metallophyten; Hyperakkumulatoren; Agromining; Bergbaufolgelandschaften; Phytoremediation; Bodensanierung; Chalkophyten}, language = {en} }