Designer Cropping Systems for Polluted Land

Book excerpt: 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