ABSTRACT
Phytoremediation is a popular word associated with contaminants and contaminated sites. Many successful and unsuccessful experiments are done daily to strengthen the approach to remediate and restore the sites naturally. This chapter enlightens the role of medicinal and aromatic plants in remediation, their application, key points in selection of species and various contaminants that are extracted via plants. Medicinal plants such as basil, vetiver and lemongrass have shown increased level of phenolic and other by-products after heavy metal stresses, thus boosting the commercial values together with phytoremediation. Biofortification is playing a major role in expanding the possibilities of phytoremediation by providing usage of contaminated plant as feed, fodder and food for the inhabitants having deficiency of those metals or as fertilizers for specific plants. Se is the most researched metal being remediated and fortified along with Zn and Fe.
