Phytoremediation of Polluted Environments: Current Status and Future Directions
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 68349
Special Issue Editors
Interests: phytoremediation; phytomining; plant metal hyperaccumulation; ecosystem services
Interests: plant-microbe interactions; mycorrhiza; plant beneficial bacteria; sustainable agriculture; phytoremediation
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Dear Colleagues,
Tackling environmental pollution is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The ever-growing contamination of soil, water, and air has taken a severe toll on the planet and constitutes a major threat to public health. In this backdrop, a plant-based technology known as phytoremediation has emerged as a low-cost, sustainable, and green alternative to the often costly, impractical, and environmentally hazardous conventional solutions. Approximately three decades after its formal inception, phytoremediation has profited from numerous breakthroughs that have improved its effectiveness and broadened the array of potential applications. From mine tailings to wetlands, and oil spill sites to derelict industrial areas, phytoremediation has steadily become one of the most prolific research fields in environmental science, bridging disciplines like plant, soil, and water sciences, microbiology, and genetics, to list but a few.
This Special Issue aims to gather the foremost developments in phytoremediation of terrestrial and aquatic environments afflicted by organic and inorganic contamination. We also welcome novel research on any phytoremediation-related subjects (e.g., plant metal hyperaccumulation; bioindication; phytomining; bioremediation), as well as high-quality reviews. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Phytoremediation of metal polluted soils and waters;
- Phytoremediation of soils and waters contaminated with organic compounds;
- Phytoremediation of saline soils;
- Amendments-enhanced phytoremediation of polluted soils;
- Bacteria and mycorrhiza-assisted phytoremediation;
- Phytoremediation of polluted air;
- Modelling of phytoremediation processes.
Dr. Rui S. Oliveira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- phytoremediation
- metal pollution
- phytoextraction
- phytostabilization
- organic pollution
- plant growth-promoting bacteria
- phytodesalination
- constructed wetlands
- soil amendments
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