Bio- and Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soils
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2018) | Viewed by 9104
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant biochemistry; microbial biochemistry; phytoremediation; bioenergetics; biofuels; environmental biotechnology
Interests: phytomanagement; phytoremediation; bioremediation; ecological restauration, soil processes and functions; ecosystem services; ecotoxicology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last 20 years, bioremediation and phytoremediation to treat soils moderately contaminated by trace elements and/or organic pollutants have developed rapidly not only at laboratory scale, but also on demonstration sites and at full scale. Both approaches, based on the use of green plants and their associated microorganisms, have the advantage of being less invasive and less expensive than classical physico-chemical technologies, but they are relatively slow and mainly suitable for sites which economic or environmental status does not require urgent cleaning. They should thus be integrated into a long-term phytomanagement, depending also on the redevelopment and planning of the future use of the site.
The scope of the proposed Special Issue of Sustainability is to highlight the progress made recently to unravel the biochemical and physiological mechanisms involved in phytoextraction and phytostabilisation of trace elements, as well as in the dissipation/degradation of organic pollutants by plants and their associated rhizosphere and endophytic microorganisms, including the use of soil amendments and bioaugmentation and the option resilience regarding the climate and global change; on the other hand, the description of success stories at pilot and full scales, with their limitations and difficulties is warmly encouraged.
The purpose of the Special Issue is not only to wrap-up the state-of-the-art of bioremediation, phytoremediation, and phytomanagement of soils contaminated by trace elements and/or organic pollutants, but also to honestly consider the present bottlenecks of our scientific knowledge and the limiting steps of practical applications, as well as to propose innovative solutions to overcome them and contribute to the implementation of such promising green remediation.
Since you and your team are involved in the development of these approaches and in the understanding of the biochemical, physiological and ecological mechanisms at lab-scale and/or in the field, you should contribute to the special issue and submit a manuscript describing your most recent results or a review on some exciting aspects of this promising topic.
Dr. Jean-Paul SCHWITZGUEBEL
Dr. Michel MENCH
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Bioaugmentation
- biodegradation
- contaminated sites
- endophytic microorganisms
- green plants
- phytodegradation
- phytoextraction
- phytostabilisation
- phytostimulation
- rhizospheric microorganisms
- trace elements
- xenobiotic compounds
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