Reviews in Advances in Bioremediation

Wastes and pollution are by-products of urbanization and industrialization, which has been an indispensable component of our modern civilization. Pollution, which was ignored originally, have grown into a chronic menace, causing more damage to the biosphere. Pollution control measures have gradually developed across the globe, however, they are not adequate and effective in many countries. There are many mitigation techniques including bioremediation to remediate polluted environments. In recent years many advancements have been made in every area of bioremediation. Starting from traditional culture-based bioremediation to recent ‘-omics’ based bioremediation has seen many advancements especially in last two decades. Though present bioremediation technologies have not provided universal solutions, nevertheless, many new technologies have been developed in the recent past and numerous approaches were studied and discussed at various depths. Many of these approaches were successful, but only at lab scale. For example, the use of nanoparticles or nano-bioremediation, electro-bioremediation, metabolic or protein engineering/nano-biotechnology, microbial-assistance phytoremediation, etc. A few of these technologies were combined or integrated, which have provided comparatively better results. There is much potential in such technologies for their field applications, however, there still exists a large gap between lab to field transition. The studies developing these technologies are continuous and an ample amount of them is now reported. Collating reviews on recent advances in these technologies is now needed to highlight the real promises of bioremediation and to focus on the remaining limitations for further development.

Therefore, the Research Topic is intended to have an in-depth coverage of all advancement made in the last decade in the area of bioremediation, which would emphasize on the key issues and new potentials. We anticipate the views presented here, should stimulate discussion in the community for further progression of bioremediation and bring it from lab studies into field applications.

The Reviews in Advances in Bioremediation welcome comprehensive, systematic or mini-review articles from the subjects of interest from point and non-point sources including (which is indicative),
(1) Synthetic organic pollutants in liquid and solid wastes
(2) Metals and inorganic compounds
(3) Mining wastes and land restoration
(4) Industrial effluents

Keywords: Pollution, mining, land restoration, organic pollutants, inorganic compounds, waste, mining waste, bioremediation, xenobiotics, recalcitrant, biodegredation, synthetic organic compounds

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