Question

Phytoremediation strategies of heavy metals toxity in plants, state only one main strategy on how to mitigate plant heavy metal contamination (reduce plant toxity) and provide intext citation and references.

Answer 1

One main strategy to mitigate plant heavy metal contamination is the use of chelating agents to help sequester and immobilize heavy metals in the soil, preventing their uptake by plants. Chelating agents such as EDTA can form stable complexes with metal ions, reducing their availability for plant uptake (Raskin and Ensley, 2000).

Reference:

Raskin, I., & Ensley, B. D. (2000). Phytoremediation of toxic metals: Using plants to clean up the environment. John Wiley & Sons.