Agricultural Chemicals: Other Methods of Cleanup

Agricultural Chemicals

Phytoremediation is bioremediation using plants and is often proposed for bioaccumulation of metals, although there are many other different types of phytoremediation.

Bioaugmentation refers to the introduction of a group of natural microbial strain or a genetically engineered variant so as to achive bioremediation.

Phytoextraction - Uptake of substances from the environment, with storage in the plant (phytoaccumulation). Phytostabilisation - Reducing the movement or transfer of substances in the environment.