@article{1433180,
      recid = {1433180},
      author = {Ent, Antony van der, and Baker, Alan J. M., and  Echevarria, Guillaume, and Simonnot, Marie-Odile, and  Morel, Jean-Louis,},
      title = {Agromining: farming for metals : extracting unconventional  resources using plants /},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 489 pages) :},
      abstract = {This second and expanded edition of the first book on  agromining (phytomining) presents a comprehensive overview  of the metal farming & recovery of the agromining  production chain. Agromining is an emerging technology that  aims to transform the extraction of sources of target  elements not accessible by traditional mining and  processing techniques. Agromining, which is based on  sustainable development, uses hyperaccumulator plants as  'metal crops' farmed on sub-economic soils or minerals  wastes to obtain valuable target elements. This volume is  edited and authored by the pioneers in the rapidly  expanding field of agromining and presents the latest  insights and developments in the field. This book provides  in-depth information on the global distribution and ecology  of hyperaccumulator plants, their biogeochemical pathways,  the influence of rhizosphere microbes, the physiology and  molecular biology of hyperaccumulation, as well as aspects  of propagation and conservation of these unusual plants. It  describes the agronomy of metal crops and opportunities for  incorporating agromining into rehabilitation and mine  closure, including test cases for agromining of nickel,  cobalt, manganese, arsenic, selenium, cadmium, zinc,  thallium, rare earth elements and platinum group elements.  Since the first edition was published, there have  successful nickel agromining field trials in the tropics  (in Malaysia and Guatemala), and these are presented in a  dedicated case study chapter. Other new chapters focus on  the processing of bio-ore for elements other than nickel,  such as rare earth elements and cadmium, and on agromining  from industrial wastes such as tailings, and industrial  by-products and sites. Furthermore, the book features two  new chapters that provide a comprehensive assessment of  accumulation a very wide range elements from the Periodic  Table in various plant species around the globe, and a  chapter on practical methods for discovery of  hyperaccumulator plant species in the field and in the  herbarium. This book is of interest to environmental  professionals in the minerals industry, government  regulators, and academics.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1433180},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58904-2},
}