Phytoremediation: principles and perspectives

Human evolution has led to immense scientific and technological progress. Global development, however, raises new challenges, especially in the field of environmental protection and conservation. Technological ingenuity has enhanced the potential for improving industrial development and rapid progress is being made not only in the field of electronics but also in biological, medical and pharmaceutical applications. In recent decades, increasingly precise knowledge of basic biological functions has brought about biotechnological advances. The possibility to produce transgenic organisms has opened up new fields of experimentation and perspectives for scientific and technological development which go beyond the limits of natural evolution