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PHYTOREMEDIATION

       
  Name: Professor Alan J. M. Baker
 
 
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School of Botany
University of Melbourne
VIC 3010
Australia

 
       

Key Research Interests

Long-standing research focuses on the ecophysiological responses of plants to heavy metal toxicity; evolution of heavy metal tolerance; hyperaccumulation of metallic elements; serpentine ecology; geobotanical and biogeochemical exploration; biomonitoring of heavy metal pollution; revegetation of metalliferous mine wastes; development of phytoremediation technology for metal-polluted soils and effluents.


Career

BSc, ARCS (1970), PhD, DIC (1974) Imperial College, University of London
Independent Research Worker, Unit of Comparative Plant Ecology (NERC), Department of Botany, University of SheffieId (1973-2000)
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in Plant Science and Reader in Environmental Science, University of Sheffield (1976-2000
Visiting Lecturer, and First Royal Society of London Anglo-Australasian
Research Fellow, Department of Botany and Zoology, Massey University, New Zealand (1982)
Senior Environmental Advisor/Research Manager, Applied Environmental Research Centre Ltd, Great Bentley, Colchester, Essex (1990)
Visiting Professor and C M Cha Research Fellow Hong Kong Baptist University (1995-96) and Visiting Professor, Institute for Natural Resources and Waste Management, Hong Kong Baptist University (1998-present)
Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (FLS)
Fellow of the Institute of Biology (CBiol, FIBiol)
Founder Member of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (MIEEM)
Currently Professor of Botany (Ecology and Environmental Science), University of Melbourne


Professional Activities (1995 onwards):

Visiting Professor and Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Natural Resources and Waste Management, Hong Kong Baptist University;   Specialist Advisor to the Hong Kong Research Council

Joint Co-ordinator of Working Group 2 (Toxic Metals) EU COST Action 837
Technical Committee on Agriculture and Biotechnology (1999-2000).
Senior Editor (Inorganics), International Journal of Phytoremediation
Subject Editor, Plant and Soil
Member of the Editorial Boards of Land Contamination and Reclamation,
Journal of Soils and Sediments, Environment International.
Editorial Consultant, The New Phytologist

Conference Chair/Co-organiser: 2nd International Conference on Serpentine Ecology, New Caledonia (1995); 3rd International Conference on Serpentine Ecology, Kruger National Park, South Africa (1999); 4th Annual IBC Conference on Phytoremediation, Toronto (1999); 5th International Conference on Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements (Phytoremediation Symposium), Vienna (1999); 3rd International Conference on Environmental Chemistry & Geochemistry in the Tropics (GEOTROP'99), Hong Kong (1999).

Plenary Lectures:
14th Annual Missouri Symposium, Current Topics in Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, Columbia, USA (1995);
87th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and the Soil Science Society of America, St Louis (1995);
IBC Phytoremediation Conference, Washington DC (1996);
International Conference on the Remediation and Management of Degraded Land, Hong Kong (1996);
4th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements, University of California, Berkeley (1997);
VII International Congress of Ecology (INTECOL), Florence (1998);
4th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry Conference, Seville (1998);
International Conference on Environmental Contamination, Toxicology and Health, Hong Kong (1998);
17th Congress of the Italian Society of Agricultural Chemistry, Portoferraio, Italy (1999);
International Congress 'Perspectives and Limitations of Biotechnology in Developing Countries', San José, Costa Rica (2000)
8th Otto Warburg Symposium, 'Biotechnology for a Better Environment',
Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot,Israel (2000).
Association for the Environmental Health of Soils (AEHS) 10th Annual West Coast Conference on Contaminated Soils and Water, San Diego, USA (2000).
International Workshop, 'Phytomanagement of Contaminated Environments', Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK*CEN), Mol, Belgium (2000).
ISEB 2000. International Society for Environmental Biotechnology, Conference. Kyoto, Japan (2000).
SOILREM 2000. International Conference of Soil Remediation, Hangzhou, PR China (2000).
Advanced Study Institute: 'Restoration and Management of Derelict Lands', Hong Kong Baptist University/Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong (2000).
Remade Lands 2000. International Conference on the Remediation and Management of Degraded Lands. Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia (2000).
6th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements (ICOBTE), Toronto, Canada (2001).
1st International Symposium on Biotechnology for Environmental Management, Turin, Italy (2001).
The Robert Brooks Workshop on Metallophytes, Mine Waste and Land Reclamation, Rio Tinto plc/Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London (2001)
USEPA International Applied Phytotechnologies Conference, Chicago (2003)
Advanced Study Institute: ‘Wetland Systems in Asia: Function and Management’, Hong Kong Baptist University/Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong (2003)..


Current Research

Professor Alan Baker heads the new Applied Plant Ecology Research Group in the School of Botany.  The group adopts an integrated science/application-driven approach to develop sustainable biotechnologies for the prevention, management and remediation of environmental contamination.  The main research themes are:

  • Reclamation:  Revegetation and stabilization of contaminated and degraded soils, mineral wastes and brownfield sites.
  • Phytoremediation:  A 'green' technology that harnesses the power of plants and microbes to remove metals/metalloids from soils, and also to degrade organic contaminants in situ on these sites.
  • Biomining:  The use of plants and bacteria to enhance the extraction of metals from low grade or part-processed ores that would be uneconomical to process by chemical means.
  • Bioprospecting/biogeochemical reconnaissance:  The use of indicator species, plant community structure and the metal contents of plants and surface soils as tools for identifying the mineral composition of the underlying geology.

Professor Baker's research group is actively involved in several restoration projects. One is focused on the revegetation of gold mine tailings contaminated with copper, arsenic and cyanide compounds.  Using a range of novel biosolids and amendment techniques, the plan is to cap a highly toxic tailings dam and waste products storage areas in a way that will promote sustainable management of the area.  In the long term it is hoped that the revegetated area will produce a variety of cash crops, adding value to the local community after the mine is no longer profitable.  This project is funded through an ARC-LINK contract with Curtin University and Stawell Gold Mines, Victoria.  Dr Steve Whiting (Research Fellow) has recently shown that some plants which naturally bioaccumulate metals in their tissues are able to ameliorate the toxic environment around their roots, allowing the concurrent establishment of less-tolerant species.  With more research, including a field-scale trial, this discovery may add a whole new technology to the field of soil revegetation and rehabilitation

.Phytoremediation is the use of plants as a cost-effective method of 'harvesting' pollutants from contaminated substrates.  Some plants naturally accumulate exceptionally high concentrations of metals (hyperaccumulators) and Professor Baker’s group is studying the growth and physiology of these hyperaccumulator plants, and how they can be improved to enhance the rate and efficiency of phytoextraction.  Recent findings indicate that these plants have exceptional root systems which have evolved for scavenging metals from the soil.  Furthermore, the roots of some of these plants actively mobilize (solubilize) metals in the soil to maximize their bioavailability.  An additional breakthrough is the discovery that soil microbes (bacteria and fungi) might be pivotal for mobilizing metals for hyperaccumulator plants growing on some soils.


Publications 1996-2003

(a) Refereed Journal Articles:

U. Krämer, J. Cotter-Howells, J. M. Charnock, A. J. M. BAKER & J. A. C. Smith (1996).  Free histidine as a metal chelator in plants that accumulate nickel. Nature, 379, 635-638.

A. J. Pollard & A. J. M. BAKER (1996).  Quantitative genetics of zinc hyperaccumulation in Thlaspi caerulescens.  New Phytologist, 132, 113-118.

R. D. Reeves, A. J .M. BAKER, A. Borhidi & R. Berazaín. (1996). Nickel-accumulating plants from the ancient serpentine soils of Cuba.
New Phytologist
, 133, 217-224.

M. M. Lasat, A. J. M. BAKER & L. V. Kochian (1996).  Physiological characterization of root Zn2+ absorption and translocation to shoots in Zn hyperaccumulator and nonaccumulator species of Thlaspi. Plant Physiology, 112, 1715-1722.

A. J. Pollard & A. J. M. BAKER (1997).  Deterrence of herbivory by zinc hyperaccumulation in Thlaspi caerulescens (Brassicaceae). New Phytologist, 135, 655-658.

R. L. Chaney, M. Malik, Y. M. Li, S. L. Brown, J. S. Angle & A. J. M. BAKER (1997).  Phytoremediation of soil metals.  Current Opinions in Biotechnology, 8, 279-284.

A. J. M. BAKER, J. L. Morel & C. Schwartz (1997).  Des plantes pour dépolluer les friches industrielles.  Biofutur, 169, 30-33.

Z. H. Ye, A. J. M. BAKER, M. H. Wong & A. J. Willis (1997).  Zinc, lead and cadmium tolerance, uptake and accumulation by Typha latifolia. New Phytologist, 136, 469-480.

Z. H. Ye, A. J. M. BAKER, M. H. Wong & A. J. Willis (1997).  Copper and nickel uptake, accumulation and tolerance in Typha latifolia with and without iron plaque on the root surface.  New Phytologist, 136, 481-488.

A. Dobson, A. D. Bradshaw & A. J. M. BAKER (1997).  Hopes for the future: resortation ecology and conservation biology.  Contributed article for Special Issue on The Biology of Human-dominated Ecosystems, Science, 277, 515-522, 25 July 1997.

Z. H. Ye, A. J. M. BAKER, M. H. Wong & A. J. Willis (1997).  Zinc, lead and cadmium tolerance, uptake and accumulation by Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steudel.  Annals of Botany, 80, 363-370.

U. Krämer, G. W. Grime, J. A. C. Smith, C. R. Hawes & A. J. M. BAKER (1997).  Micro-PIXE as a technique for studying nickel localization in leaves of the hyperaccumulator plant Alyssum lesbiacum.  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 130, 346-350.

K. I. Köhl, F. A. Harper, A. J. M. BAKER & J. A. C. Smith (1997).  Defining a metal-hyperaccumulator plant: the relationship between metal uptake, allocation and metal tolerance.  Plant Physiology, 114, 124.

A. Dobson, A. D. Bradshaw & A. J. M. BAKER (1997).  Response to Letters on Restoring Ecosystems, by W. Richer; J. Aronson & R. Hobbs and A. M. Shapiro, Science, 278, 999-1000, 7 November 1997.

Z. Ye, A. J. M. BAKER, M.-H. Wong & A. J. Willis (1998).  Lead, zinc and cadmium accumulation and tolerance in Typha latifolia as affected by iron plaque on the root surface.  Aquatic Botany, 61, 55-67.

Z. H. Ye, M. H. Wong, A. J. M. BAKER & A. J. Willis (1998).  Comparison of biomass and metal uptake between two populations of Phragmites australis grown in flooded and dry conditions.  Annals of Botany, 82, 83-87.

M. M. Lasat, A. J. M. BAKER & L. V. Kochian (1998).  Altered Zn compartmentation in the root symplasm and stimulated Zn absorption into the leaf as mechanisms involved in Zn hyperaccumulation in Thlaspi caerulescens. Plant Physiology, 118, 875-883.

R. D. Reeves, A. J. M. BAKER, A. Borhidi & R. Berazaín (1999). Nickel hyperaccumulation  in the serpentine flora of Cuba. Annals of Botany, 83, 29-38.

D. E. Salt, R. C. Prince, A. J. M. BAKER, I. Raskin & I. J. Pickering (1999).  Zinc ligands in the metal hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens as determined using X-ray absorption spectroscopy.  Environmental Science & Technology, 33, 713-717.

F. Malaisse, A. J. M. BAKER & B. Leteinturier (1999)  Les espèces de Buchnera L. (Scrophulariaceae) des gisements cupro-cobaltifères du Haut-Katanga (Rép. Dém. du Congo).  Géo-Eco-Trop, 21 (1997), 51-64 .

B. Leteinturier, A. J. M. BAKER & F. Malaisse (1999).  Early stages of natural revegetation of metalliferous mine workings in South Central Africa: a preliminary survey.  Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 3, 28-41.

Z. H. Ye, J. W. C. Wong, M. H. Wong, C. Y. Lan & A. J. M. BAKER (1999).  Lime and pig manure as ameliorants for the revegetation of lead/zinc mine tailings: a greenhouse study.  Bioresource Technology, 69, 35-45.

C. Schwartz, J. L. Morel, S. Saumier, S. N. Whiting & A. J. M. BAKER (1999).  Root development of the zinc-hyperaccumulator plant Thlaspi caerulescens as affected by metal origin, content and localization in the soil.  Plant and Soil, 208, 103-115.

F. Malaisse, A. J. M. BAKER & S. Ruelle (1999).  Diversity of plant communities and leaf heavy metal content at Luiswishi copper/cobalt mineralization, Upper Katanga, Dem. Rep. Congo. Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 3, 104-114.

J. Proctor, L. A. Bruijnzeel & A. J. M. BAKER (1999).  What causes the vegetation types on Mount Bloomfield, a coastal tropical mountain of the western Philippines?  Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters, 8, 347-354.

J. Proctor, A. J. M. BAKER, M. M. J. van Balgooy, L. A. Bruijnzeel, S. H. Jones & D. A. Madulid (2000).  Mount Bloomfield, Palawan, Philippines: forests on greywacke and serpentinized peridotite.  Edinburgh Journal of Botany, 57, 121-139.

S. N. Whiting, J. R. Leake, S. P. McGrath & A. J. M. BAKER (2000).  Positive responses to Zn and Cd by the roots of the Zn and Cd hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens. New Phytologist, 145, 199-210.

Y. M. Luo, P. Christie & A. J. M.BAKER (2000).  Soil solution Zn and pH dynamics in non-rhizosphere soil and in the rhizosphere of Thlaspi caerulescens grown in Zn/Cd-contaminated soil.  Chemosphere, 41, 161-164.

G. M. Tordoff, A. J. M. BAKER & A. J. Willis (2000).  Current approaches to the revegetation and reclamation of metalliferous mine wastes.  Chemosphere, 41, 219-228.

Z. H. Ye, J. W. C. Wong, M. H. Wong, A. J. M. BAKER, W. S. Shu & C. Y. Lan. (2000).  Revegetation of Pb/Zn mine tailings: field trials to compare different waste materials and plant species.  Restoration Ecology, 8, 87-92.

Y. S. M. Ghaderian, A. J. E. Lyon & A. J. M. BAKER (2000).  Seedling mortality of metal hyperaccumulator plants resulting from damping off by Pythium spp. New Phytologist, 146, 219-224.

J. Proctor, A. J. M. BAKER, L. A. Bruijnzeel, M. M. J. van Balgooy, G. M. Fairweather & D. A. Madulid (2000).  Foliar chemistry and leaf herbivory on Mount Bloomfield, Palawan, Philippines. Botanical Journal of Scotland, 52, 79-89.

J. J. Hutchinson, S. D. Young, S. P. McGrath, H. M. West, C. R. Black & A. J. M. BAKER (2000).  Determining uptake of 'non-labile' soil cadmium by Thlaspi caerulescens using isotopic dilution.  New Phytologist, 146, 453-460.

L. C. Batty, A. J. M. BAKER, B. D. Wheeler & C. D. Curtis (2000).  The effect of pH and plaque on the uptake of Cu and Mn by Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin ex Steudel. Annals of Botany, 86, 647-653.

C. Gonnelli, S. Marsili-Libelli, A. J. M. BAKER & R. Gabbrielli (2000). Assessing plant phytoremediation potential through mathematical modelling.  International Journal of Phytoremediation, 2, 343-351.

B. Leteinturier, A. J. M. BAKER, L. Bock, J. Matera & F. Malaisse (2001).  Copper and vegetation at the Kansanshi Hill (Zambia) copper mine. Belgian Journal of Botany, 134, 41-50.

S. N. Whiting, J. R. Leake, S. P. McGrath & A. J. M. BAKER. (2001). Hyperaccumulation of Zn by Thlaspi caerulescens can ameliorate Zn toxicity in the rhizosphere of cocropped Thlaspi arvense. Environmental Science & Technology, 35, 3237-3241.

S. N. Whiting, J. R. Leake, S. P. McGrath & A. J. M. BAKER (2001). Zinc accumulation by Thlaspi caerulescens from soils with different Zn availability: a pot study. Plant and Soil, 236, 11-18.

M. R. Broadley, N. J. Willey, J. C. Wilkins, A. J. M. BAKER, A. Mead & P. J. White (2001).  Phylogenetic variation in heavy metal accumulation in angiosperms. New Phytologist, 152, 9-27.

S. N. Whiting, J. R. Leake, S. P. McGrath & A. J. M. BAKER. (2001).  Assessment of zinc mobilization in the rhizosphere of Thlaspi caerulescens by bioassay with non-accumulator plants and soil extraction.  Plant and Soil 237, 147-156.

D. van der Lelie, J.-P. Schwitzguébel, D. J. Glass, J. Vangronsveld & A. J. M. BAKER (2001).  Assessing phytoremediation progress in the United States and Europe. Environmental Science & Technology 35, 446-452.

J. S. Angle, R. L. Chaney, A. J. M. BAKER, Y. Li, R. Reeves, V. Volk, R. Roseberg, E. Brewer, S. Burke & J. Nelkin  (2001).  Developing commercial phytoextraction technologies: practical considerations.  South African Journal of Science, 97, 619-623. 

P. J. White, S. N. Whiting, A. J. M. BAKER & M. R. Broadley (2002).
Does zinc move apoplastically to the xylem in roots of Thlaspi caerulescens? New Phytologist, 153, 199-211

S. N. Whiting, R. D. Reeves & A. J. M BAKER (2002).  Conserving biodiversity: mining, metallophytes and land reclamation: conservation of biodiversity. Mining Environmental Management, 10 (2), 11-16.

L. C. Batty, A. J. M. BAKER & B. D. Wheeler (2002).  Aluminium and phosphate uptake by Phragmites australis: the role of Fe, Mn and Al root plaques. Annals of Botany, 89, 443-449.

A. J. M. BAKER & S. N. Whiting (2002).  In search of the Holy Grail ­ a further step in  understanding metal hyperaccumulation?  New Phytologist, 155, 1-4.

J.-P. Schwitzgübel, D. van der Lelie, A. J. M., BAKER, D. J. Glass & J. Vangronsveld  (2002).  Phytoremediation: European and American trends, successes, obstacles and needs.  Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2, 91-99.

Z. H. Ye, A. J. M. BAKER, M. H. Wong & A. J. Willis (2003).  Copper tolerance, uptake and accumulation by Phragmites australis.  Chemosphere, 50, 795-800.

X. J., Jiang, Y. M. Luo, Q. G. Zhao, A. J. M. BAKER, P. Christie & M. H. Wong (2003).  Soil Cd availability to Indian mustard and environmental risk following EDTA addition to Cd-contaminated soil.  Chemosphere, 50, 813-818.

Y-M. Li, R. Chaney, E. Brewer, R. Roseberg, J. S. Angle, A. BAKER, R. Reeves & J. Nelkin (2003).  Development of a technology for commercial phytoextraction of nickel: economic and technical considerations.  In: Advances in Phytoremediation, Ed. by A. J. M. Baker, D. van der Lelie, J. Vangronsveld & F. J. Zhao, Plant and Soil, 249, 107-115.

S. N. Whiting, P. M. Neumann & A. J. M. BAKER (2003).  Nickel and zinc hyperaccumulation by Alyssum murale and Thlaspi caerulescens (Brassicaceae) do not enhance survival and whole-plant growth under drought stress. Plant, Cell and Environment, 26, 351-360.

P. Hoffmann, A. J. M. BAKER, D. A. Madulid & J. Proctor (2003) Phyllanthus balgooyi (Euphorbiaceae s.l.), a new nickel-hyperaccumulating species from Palawan and Sabah.  Blumea (in press).

L. R. Peterson, V. Trivett, A. J. M. BAKER & A. J. Pollard (2003).  Spread of metals through an invertebrate food chain as influenced by a plant that hyperaccumulates nickel.  Chemoecology (accepted).

S. N. Whiting, D. Richards & A. J. M. BAKER (2003).  Plants with mettle – growing the hard way.  Materials World April 2003, 10-12.

P. Hoffmann, A. J. M. BAKER, D. A. Madulid & J. Proctor (2003) Phyllanthus balgooyi (Euphorbiaceae s.l.), a new nickel-hyperaccumulating species from Palawan and Sabah.  Blumea, 48, 193-199.

A. Mengoni, A. J. M. BAKER, M. Bazzicalupo, R. D. Reeves, N. Adiguzel,

E. Chianni, F. Galardi, R. Gabbrielli & C. Gonnelli (2003).  Evolutionary dynamics of nickel hyperaccumulation in Alyssum revealed by ITS nrDNA analysis. New Phytologist, 159, 691-699.

L. R. Peterson, V. Trivett, A. J. M. BAKER, C. Aguiar & A. J. Pollard (2003).

Spread of metals through an invertebrate food chain as influenced by a plant that hyperaccumulates nickel. Chemoecology, 13, 103-108.

N. A. Linacre, S. N. Whiting, A. J. M. BAKER, J. S. Angle & P. K. Ades (2003). Transgenics and phytoremediation: the need for an integrated risk assessment, management, and communication strategy. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 5, 181-185.

J. S. Angle, A. J. M. BAKER, S. N. Whiting & R. L. Chaney (2003).  Soil moisture effects on uptake of heavy metals by Thlaspi, Alyssum and Berkheya. Plant and Soil (in press).

N. P. Bhatia, I. Orlic, R. Siegele, N. Ashwath, A. J. M. BAKER & K. Walsh (2003). Elemental mapping using PIXE shows the main pathway of nickel movement is principally symplastic within the fruit of the hyperaccumulator Stackhousia tryonii.  New Phytologist 160 (in press, December 2003).

S. N. Whiting, R. D. Reeves, D. Richards, M. S. Johnson, J. A. Cooke, F. Malaisse,

A. Paton, J. A. C. Smith, J. S. Angle, R. L. Chaney, R. Ginocchio, T. Jaffré, R. Johns, T. McIntyre, O. W. Purvis, D. E. Salt, H. Schat, F. J. Zhao & A. J. M. BAKER  (2004).  Research priorities for conservation of metallophytes and their potential for restoration and site remediation.   Restoration Ecology (in press, March 2004).

 

 (b) Books and Chapters in Books:

S. Scannerini, A. BAKER, B. V. Charlwood, C. Damiano, C. Frantz & S. Gianinazzi (Eds) (1998).  Proceedings of the Symposium on Plant Biotechnology as a Tool for the Exploitation of Mountain Lands, Torino, Italy, 25-27 May 1997.  Acta Horticulturae No. 457, International Society for Horticultural Science, Leuven, Belgium, 424 p.

A. J. M. BAKER (1999).  Revegetation of asbestos mine wastes.  In: ECO-TEC: Architecture of the In-between, Ed by A. Marras, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, USA, pp. 119-125.

M. H. Wong, J. W. C. Wong & A. J. M. BAKER (Eds.) (1999).  Remediation and Management of Degraded Lands. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, USA, 364 p.

A. J. M. BAKER, S. P. McGrath, R. D. Reeves & J. A. C. Smith.  (2000).  Metal hyperaccumulator plants: a review of the ecology and physiology of a biological resource for phytoremediation of metal-polluted soils.  In: Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soil and Water,  Ed. by N. Terry & G. S. Bañuelos, CRC Press Inc, Boca Raton, FL, USA, pp. 85-107.

R. L. Chaney, Y.-M. Li, J. S. Angle, A. J. M. BAKER, R. D Reeves, S. L. Brown, F. A. Homer, M. Malik & M. Chin  (2000).  Improving metal hyperaccumulator wild plants to develop commercial phytoextraction systems: approaches and progress. Ibid., pp. 129-158.

R. D. Reeves & A. J. M. BAKER (2000).  Metal-accumulating plants. In: Phytoremediation of Toxic Metals: Using Plants to Clean Up the Environment. Ed. by I. Raskin & B. D. Ensley, John Wiley & Sons Inc., NY, USA, pp. 193-229.

D. A. Salt & A. J. M. BAKER (2000).  Phytoremediation of metals. In: Environmental Processes - Soil Decontamination, Waste-Gas Treatment, Potable Water Preparation, Biotechnology Vol. 11b, 2nd Edn, Ed by H.-J. Rehm, G. Reed, A. Pühler & P. Stadler, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, pp. 385-397.

Y.-M. Li, R. L. Chaney, J. S. Angle & A. J. M. BAKER (2000).  Phytoremediation of heavy metal contaminated soils. In: Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils, Ed. by

D. L. Wise, D. J. Trantolo, E. J. Cichon, H. I. Inyang & U. Stottmeister, Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY and Basel, Switzerland, pp. 837-884.

Z. H. Ye, A. J. M. BAKER & M. H. Wong (2002).  Problems of toxicities. In: The Restoration and Management of Derelict Land. Modern Approaches, Ed. by M. H. Wong & A. D. Bradshaw, World Scientific Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, Chap 7, pp. 66-79.

A. J. M. BAKER (2002).  The use of tolerant plants and hyperaccumulators. In: The Restoration and Management of Derelict Land. Modern Approaches, Ed. by M. H. Wong & A. D. Bradshaw, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, Chap 12, pp. 138-148

A. J. M. BAKER, D. van der Lelie, J. Vangronsveld & F. J. Zhao  (Eds.) (2002). Advances in Phytoremediation, Plant and Soil, 249 (1) (Special Issue), 236 p.

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