Dye Yielding Plant–Based Phytoremediation

“Dye Yielding Plant-Based Phytoremediation: A Chromatic, Ecological and Economic Alternative” is a single source on using dye yielding plants for phytoremediation. It is gaining global attention as a holistic approach due to ever-increasing number and area of polluted land. The main challenge is to develop new, affordable and potential solutions to clean up contaminated land. Plant-based remediation, especially using dye yielding plants, is a promising and affordable system for environmental remediation and management on a large scale level due to its ecological and economic sustainability. Moreover, changing environmental conditions also causes various biotic and abiotic stresses in dye yielding plants, thereby negatively affecting the dye yielding plant establishment, growth, and yield. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the field and looks in detail at the potential uses of dye yielding plants for phytoremediation, including root, wood, bark, leaf, flower, fruit and seed-based dye yielding plants. Plant-based dyes are renewable source of colouring materials that are intensively applied in colouration of substrates such as textiles (fiber), paper, cosmetics, hair, foods, medicine, and in handicraft items. Besides these benefits natural dyes are eco-friendly, pleasing colour to eyes and protective to skin. Thus, Dye Yielding Plant-Inspired Phytoremediation can play a key role in remediation of contaminated land, biobased economy generation and maintaining ecosystem services. This authored book is a key resource for scientists, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, entrepreneurs and stakeholders working in the fields of pollution management and remediation, forming an up-to-date collection on dye yielding plant-based phytoremediation that provides a holistic approach in terms of socioeconomic and environmental sustainability.