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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 27, Issue 22, Pages 27181-27201Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-019-04974-w
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Mercury; Bioremediation; Biosorption; Biosorbent; Bioaccumulation; Mercury reductase enzyme; Exopolysaccharides; Phytoremediation
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Mercury (Hg), the environmental toxicant, is present in the soil, water, and air as it is substantially distributed throughout the environment. Being extremely toxic even at low concentration, its remediation is utterly important. Therefore, it is necessary to detoxify the contaminant within the acceptable limits before threatening the environment. Although various conventional methods are being used, irrespective of high cost, it produces intermediate toxic by-product too. Biological methods are eco-friendly, clean, greener, and safer for the remediation of heavy metals corresponding to the conventional remediation due to their economic and high-tech constraints. Bioremediation is now being used for Hg (II) removal, which involves biosorption and bioaccumulation mechanisms or both, also mercuric ion reductase, exopolysaccharide play significant role in detoxification of mercury by acting a potential instrument for the remediation of heavy metals. In this review paper, we shed light on problems caused by mercury pollution, mercury cycle, and its global scenario and detoxification approaches by biological methods and result found in the literature.
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