Dear Colleagues,

Soil pollution caused by natural and anthropogenic activities has been drawing great public attention worldwide. Pollutants, such as toxic trace elements, excess mineral nutrients, salt, alkali, and organic compounds, are posing a great threat to crop production by impacting plant growth and quality. Correspondently, plants have been evolving various resilient strategies with physiological and biochemical modulations to survive in polluted soil. Improving plant resilience to the environmental challenge depends on a deep understanding of the way of plant adaption to polluted soil and genetic improvement for breeding crops for sustainable agriculture.

This Special Issue aims to collect the most current findings and research advancement on plant resilience to the pollutants, including the mechanism for plant stress adaption, plant–pollutant interactions, plant–microbe interaction against environmental pollutants, crop breeding and genetic improvements, exogenous regulation of plant tolerance, etc. It is open to different types of manuscripts such as original research articles, communications, or reviews relevant to the studies of plant resilience at morphological, physiological, biochemical, molecular, and ecological levels. Both field trials and laboratory studies are welcome.

Dr. Jian Chen
Prof. Dr. Zhimin Yang
Guest Editors

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• plant resilience
• plant adaption
• plant tolerance
• environmental pollutants
• abiotic stress
• genetic improvement