Bioremediation and Biotechnology

Preface.- Foreword.- 1. Concerns and Threats of Contamination on Aquatic Ecosystems.- 2. Effect of Pesticides on Fish Fauna: Threats, Challenges and Possible Remedies.- 3. Impact of Invasive Plants in Aquatic Ecosystems.- 4. Role of Modern Innovative Techniques for Assessing and Monitoring Environmental Pollution.- 5. Global Scenario of Remediation Techniques to Combat Environmental Pollution.- 6. Biopesticides: clean and viable technology for healthy environment.- 7. Inoculum addition in the presence of plant rhizosphere for petroleum polluted soil remediation.- 8. Vermicomposting: An Eco-friendly Approach for Recycling /Management of Organic Wastes.- 9. Bio-Fertilizers: Ecofriendly Approach for Plant and Soil Environment.- 10. Phytoremediation of heavy metals: an ecofriendly and sustainable approach.- 11. Credibility of in situ Phytoremediation for Restoration of Disturbed Environments.- 12. Role of White Willow (Salix alba L.) for Cleaning up the Toxic Metal Pollution.- 13. Mycoremediation: a Sustainable Tool for Abating Environmental Pollution.- 14. Microbial Biofilm Cell Systems for Remediation of Wastewaters.- 15. Pollution remediation by way of using genetically modified plants (GMP).- Index.

Khalid Rehman Hakeem (Ph.D.) is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After completing his doctorate (Botany; specialization in Plant Eco-physiology and Molecular Biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, in 2011, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, for a short period. Later, he joined Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, and worked there as Postdoctorate Fellow in 2012 and Fellow Researcher (Associate Professor) from 2013 to 2016. Dr. Hakeem has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in plant eco-physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions as well as in environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels; also, he has served as the visiting scientist at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Currently, he is involved with a number of international research projects with differentgovernment organizations. So far, Dr. Hakeem has authored and edited more than 35 books with international publishers, including Springer Nature, Academic Press (Elsevier), and CRC Press. He also has to his credit more than 85 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 60 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers. At present, Dr. Hakeem serves as an editorial board member and reviewer of several high-impact international scientific journals from Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Cambridge, and John Wiley Publishers. He is included in the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is also a fellow of Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, member of the World Academy of Sciences, member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan, and member of Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Korea. Dr. Hakeem has been listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World, since 2014-2019. Currently,