Microbiology in Paddy Soil
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Sustainable Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2024) | Viewed by 4643
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions for the Special Issue on Microbiology in Paddy Soil.
Rice is the most stable food for more than 50% of the world's population. Globally, paddy fields for rice production cover almost 150 million, constituting the largest anthropogenic wetlands on earth. The depletion of oxygen and other electron acceptors upon flooding results in a decrease in redox potential that proliferates microbial activities directing the redox reactions in paddy soils, such as aerobic respiration, denitrification, ferric iron/arsenate/sulfate reduction, methanogens, etc. The highly complex microbiology mediates the biogeochemical processes in paddy soil and is closely related to rice security and global climate change.
The Special Issue aims to present fundamental research exploring the ecological processes and mechanisms by which microbial groups interact with each other and with the paddy environment, including microbial diversity and interaction, elemental biogeochemistry, and coupling among different processes. The Issue will focus on identifying the functional microbes and the underlying mechanisms involved in different biogeochemical processes, such as arsenic or mercury transformation, methane production and anaerobic oxidation, denitrification, and sulfate reduction. We hope this Issue will improve our insights into the Microbiology in Paddy Soil.
Kind Regards,
Dr. Chuan Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- paddy soil
- microorganisms
- biogeochemical processes
- arsenic
- methane
- denitrification
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