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Raluca Maria Hlihor [1; 2] and Maria Gavrilescu [2; 3] and Teresa Tavares [4] and Lidia Favier [5] and Giuseppe Olivieri [6; 7]

1, Department of Horticultural Technologies, Faculty of Horticulture, “Ion Ionescu de la Brad” University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, 3 Mihail Sadoveanu Alley, 700490 Iași, Romania, usamvcluj.ro

2, Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iași, 73 Prof. Dr. Docent D. Mangeron Street, 700050 Iași, Romania, tuiasi.ro

3, Academy of Romanian Scientists, 54 Splaiul Independentei, 050094 Bucharest, Romania, aos.ro

4, Centre of Biological Engineering (CEB), University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal, uminho.pt

5, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, CNRS, UMR 6226, 11 Allée de Beaulieu, CS 50837, 35708 Rennes Cedex 7, France, ensc-rennes.fr

6, Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Piazzale V. Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy, unina.it

7, Bioprocess Engineering Group, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 AA Wageningen, Netherlands, wur.nl

Received Oct 7, 2017; Accepted Oct 10, 2017

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Environmental pollution generated the need to search for new environmentally friendly, low-cost, and more efficient environmental clean-up techniques for its removal or reduction. Bioremediation, a branch of environmental biotechnology, is nowadays considered as one of the most promising alternatives. This technology uses the amazing ability of microorganisms or plants to accumulate, detoxify, degrade, or remove...

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