
Designer Cropping Systems for Polluted Land
- 1st Edition - October 24, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Vimal Chandra Pandey, Gordana Gajic, Manhattan Lebrun, Pooja Mahajan
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 6 1 8 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 6 1 9 - 2
Designer Cropping Systems for Polluted Land explores the processes and techniques of making polluted land safe for planting edible and non-edible crops. The book provides reader… Read more
Purchase options

Designer Cropping Systems for Polluted Land explores the processes and techniques of making polluted land safe for planting edible and non-edible crops. The book provides readers and practitioners with a comprehensive understanding of contaminated land use through designer cropping systems. It seeks to present promising and affordable practices for transforming polluted lands while also providing an excellent basis from which scientific knowledge can grow and widen in the fields of phytoremediation-based biofortification.
- Provides basic understanding on how to produce edible crops on polluted lands with biofortification
- Explores cropping systems for the extraction of metals for industrial use
- Discovers the role of designer cropping systems in phytoremediation programs
Students, researchers, and environmental community related to phytoremediation/phytomanagement of polluted lands, especially who work on plant-based remediation of polluted lands Students and researchers of agriculture and plant biology
1: Agriculture extensification on polluted lands Abstract1. Introduction2. Increasing polluted lands over the world3. What is the need of agriculture extensification on polluted lands?4. Agriculture extensification for sustainable food system 5. Global food security is current need for rapidly growing population6. Regular monitoring, quality and quantity assessment of produced food from polluted lands7. Consideration of legal, ethical and consumer-acceptability aspects8. Conclusion and future perspectives2: Edible crop production on polluted lands for biofortificationAbstract1. Introduction 2. Phytoremediation based biofortification3. Selenium Biofortification4. Zinc-Biofortification5. Iron Biofortification6. Future prospects7. Conclusion3: Strategies for reducing toxic metal(loid)s in edible crop partsAbstract1. Introduction2. Potential tools for reducing toxic metal(loid)s in edible parts2.1. Soil amendments (Biochar, compost, industrial wastes, etc.)2.2. Microbes’ involvement (fungi and bacteria)2.3. Co-cropping systems2.4. Using genetically modified crops3. Future prospects 4. Conclusions 4: Cash/Valuable crop production on polluted landsAbstract1. Increase in polluted lands2. Cash crops production on polluted lands2.1. Energy crops2.2. Fibre crops 2.3. Essential oil producing crops2.4. Dye yielding crops2.5. Floriculture crops 2.6. Ornamental crops2.7. Valuable timber trees2.8. Firewood trees 3. Economic aspect of cash crops production on polluted lands4. Pros and cons of using cash crops cultivation on polluted lands5. Future prospects6. Conclusions 5: Cropping systems for extraction of metals for industrial useAbstract 1. Introduction2. Cadmium and zinc phytoextraction: Perspectives for phytomining and soil remediation3. Nickel phytomining 4. Phytoextraction of Cd and Zn with hyperaccumulator plants at the field scale5. Metal recovery in hyperaccumulator biomass6. Arsenic phytoextraction7. Future prospects8. Conclusions6: Designer cropping systems in phytoremediation programsAbstract 1. Introduction2. What are designer cropping systems?3. Benefits of cropping patterns on polluted lands3.1. Co-cropping for reducing heavy metal contents in crops3.2. Co-cropping for enhancing phytoextraction4. Pros and cons of Crop Rotation on polluted land4.1. Increased soil fertility4.2. Crop yield enhancement4.3. Soil nutrients improvement4.4. Cuts soil erosion4.5. Automatic pests and diseases control4.6. Increases carbon sequestration4.7. Improved soil structure4.8. Reduced land and water pollution4.9. The Nutrient Uptake Regulation5. Short rotation coppice for revaluation of polluted land6. Intercropping/row cropping on polluted land7. Coppicing cropping system on polluted lands8. Growing contaminant-free rice in contaminated wetland soils9. Reuse and/or disposal of agricultural wastes specific to designer crop systems10. Ensuring ecological and socio-economic sustainability through designer cropping systems11. Conclusion and future prospects7: Designing crops for remediating polluted land and their adaptationsAbstract1. Introduction2. Designing crops by genetic and genome engineering2.1. Genetically modified edible crops2.2. Genetically modified non-edible crops 2.2.1. Engineered energy crops2.2.2. Engineered fibre crops2.2.3. Engineered aromatic crops3. Omics approaches for understanding heavy metal adaptation in plants 3.1 Genomics3.2 Transcriptomics3.3 Metabolomics3.4 miRNAomics3.5 Metallomics4. Conclusion and future perspectives
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 24, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
VP
Vimal Chandra Pandey
Dr. Vimal Chandra Pandey is an applied research scientist of phyto- and phycoremediation at Chandigarh University, India. He obtained his PhD from Dr. RML Avadh University and conducted post-doctoral research at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India. Dr. Pandey’s research focuses on the remediation and management of polluted sites using ecologically and socio-economically valuable plants and algae. His work focuses strongly on restoring ecosystem services and developing a bio-based economy in support of the UN SDGs. Dr. Pandey is a member of the IUCN commission on Ecosystem Management and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He is the author and editor of several books, including Elsevier’s Algae and Aquatic Macrophytes in Cities, Bioremediation of Pollutants, and more.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Scientist, University Center for Research and Development (UCRD), Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, IndiaGG
Gordana Gajic
Dr. Gordana Gajić is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Ecology, Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković,” National Institute of Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her research areas are phytoremediation, ecorestoration, plant ecophysiology, and biochemistry. Dr. Gajić has published more than 30 research papers in reputed journals and contributed five book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Associate, Department of Ecology, Institute for Biological Research, University of Belgrade, SerbiaML
Manhattan Lebrun
Dr. Manhattan Lebrun received her master’s degree in Environmental Science at the University of Orleans, France, and a Ph.D. in Bioenvironmental at the University of Molise, Italy. During her Ph.D., she mainly focused on the rhizosphere area, analyzing the root physiology (root proteome profile, root oxidative stress, root exudates) and of the microbial community (sequencing, enzyme activities, community level physiological profiles). Following her postdoc research, she focused on using amendments to ameliorate the fertility of agriculture soil. Dr. Lebrun primarily studied the physiological responses of plants to drought and amendments (leaf gas exchange, proline content) and the nitrogen cycle (N2O emissions, nitrogen related enzymes). She has published over 36 research papers in reputable journals and 2 book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Orleans, FrancePM
Pooja Mahajan
Dr. Pooja Mahajan is Assistant Professor, Centre for Water Sciences, Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Punjab, India. Her research focuses on Phytoremediation of contaminated sites, Waste Water Treatment, Drinking water purification, Dye Removal, Heavy Metal Removal, etc. She has published several research articles and review articles in peer –review international journal having good impact factor. Dr. Mahajan is a reviewer of several reputed national and international journals. She also credited 6 patents in her profile.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Centre for Water Sciences, Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Punjab, IndiaRead Designer Cropping Systems for Polluted Land on ScienceDirect