Heavy Metal Pollution and Mycorrhiza

Heavy metal pollution due to various industrial and agricultural activities is causing serious threat both to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Some of these metals are essential as trace elements but they become toxic when their concentration exceeds certain level. Certain microbes and plants detoxify metabolically such lutants and may reduce the vulnerability of h heavy metals. Various anthropogenic activities like mining, smeltering, disposal of wastes excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers etc. enhance the metal toxicity affecting.