Environmental Microbes in Antimicrobial Resistance and Soil Pollution Mitigation
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 6
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and soil pollution are two of the most pressing environmental and public health challenges in the world. Environmental microbes play a paradoxical role: they act as both reservoirs of resistance genes and powerful agents of bioremediation. This Special Issue explores the dual function of microbial communities in disseminating AMR and mitigating soil contamination, highlighting cutting-edge research on microbial ecology, biodegradation mechanisms, and sustainable remediation strategies.
We invite original research articles, reviews, and case studies addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
1. AMR in Environmental Microbes
- Natural and anthropogenic drivers of AMR spread in environment
- Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) mechanisms (plasmids, integrons, transposons)
- Co-selection of resistance genes under heavy metal stress
- Microbial degradation of antibiotics in wastewater and agricultural systems and so on.
2. Microbial Bioremediation of Soil Pollution
- Degradation of organic pollutants (PAHs, pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons)
- Heavy metal dtoxification via biosorption, precipitation, or redox reactions
- Synergistic plant-microbe interactions (rhizoremediation)
- Bioaugmentation and biostimulation strategies for polluted soils
- Innovative Technologies and Solutions
- Engineered microbes for targeted pollutant degradation or AMR suppression
- Role of biochar, compost, and other amendments in microbial remediation
- Omics approaches (metagenomics, transcriptomics) to study pollutant-microbe interactions
Prof. Dr. Yan Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance
- genes
- microbial bioremediation
- soil
- microbial communities
- pollutant degradation
- bioremediation
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