Diesel Phytotoxicity

 Phytotoxicity may be a toxic effect by a compound on plant growth. Such damage could also be caused by a good sort of compounds, including trace metals, pesticides, salinity, phytotoxins or allelopathy. Fossil fuels are still the most source of energy representing approximately 80% of the entire world supply. However, its exploration, recovery and use present serious environmental problems, which are mainly related to the assembly of greenhouse gases and contamination of land and water resources. Phytoremediation is an alternate to costlier remediation technologies because it's a feasible, effective and non-intrusive technology that utilizes natural plant processes to reinforce degradation and removal of contaminants from the environment. Phytotoxicity studies with petroleum on native Brazilian trees included plant growth, root length, produced biomass, tissue analysis, etc.

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