Plants for Sustainable Improvement of Indoor Air Quality

Federico Brilli; Silvano Fares; Andrea Ghirardo; Pieter de Visser; Vicent Calatayud; Amalia Muñoz; Isabella Annesi-Maesano; Federico Sebastiani; Alessandro Alivernini; Vincenzo Varriale; Flavio Menghini

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2018.03.004

Plants for Sustainable Improvement of Indoor Air Quality

Federico Brilli^*, Silvano Fares, Andrea Ghirardo, Pieter de Visser, Vicent Calatayud, Amalia Muñoz, Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Federico Sebastiani, Alessandro Alivernini, Vincenzo Varriale, Flavio Menghini

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Indoor pollution poses a serious threat to human health. Plants represent a sustainable but underexploited solution to enhance indoor air quality. However, the current selection of plants suitable for indoors fails to consider the physiological processes and mechanisms involved in phytoremediation. Therefore, the capacity of plants to remove indoor air pollutants through stomatal uptake (absorption) and non-stomatal deposition (adsorption) remains largely unknown. Moreover, the effects of the indoor plant-associated microbiome still need to be fully analyzed. Here, we discuss how a combination of the enhanced phytoremediation capacity of plants together with cutting-edge air-cleaning and smart sensor technologies can improve indoor life while reducing energy consumption.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	507-512
Journal	Trends in Plant Science
Volume	23
Issue number	6
Early online date	19 Apr 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2018.03.004
Publication status	Published - Jun 2018

UN SDGs

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

air cleaning bio-systems
air phytoremediation
indoor air quality (IAQ)
plant microbiome
smart buildings

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