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Soil Pollution on Water Quality and Plant Health
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Soil Pollution on Water Quality and Plant Health

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant–Soil Interactions".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 1796

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Joseph Adu-Gyamfi

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International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, FAO/IAEA Joint Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Vienna International Centre, 1400 Vienna, Austria
Interests: integrated soil fertility and plant nutrition, nuclear techniques to trace source and transport of contaminants (agro-contminants, antimicrobial resistance, microplastics etc in the environment, environmental physiology, advances of nuclear-based instrumental and analytical techniques
Dr. Peter Ampim

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Department of Agriculture, Nutrition and Human Ecology, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Prairie View A and M University, Prairie View, TX 77446, USA
Interests: sustainable and climate-smart agriculture including controlled environment production; soil health; water quality; best management practices for reducing the impacts of agriculture on the environment and environmental sustainability

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

‘Soil pollution’ represents the contamination of soil with harmful content or higher-than-normal concentrations of substances that have poisonous and/or adverse effects on water quality, plants and creatures. Soil pollution is an alarming issue and there is increasing awareness of its importance, leading to research on the methods of tracing, assessing and remediation. The uptake of contaminants via the transfer of the soil and water pollutants to plants poses risks to food security and health, water resources, rural livelihoods and human health. In addition, sediments from soil erosion and non-point source runoff can adversely affect water quality, aquatic life and various plant systems.

This Special Issue focuses on the different analytical techniques (nuclear and conventional) used for identifying sources and transport of pollutants for a better understanding and management strategies. Our goal is to highlight th original research methods to understand the mechanisms of sources and fate of contaminants and their effects on water quality, plant health and productivity.

Dr. Joseph Adu-Gyamfi
Dr. Peter Ampim
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • soil pollution
  • water pollution
  • agro-contaminants
  • crop health and productivity
  • water quality
  • non-point source pollution

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Application and Experimental Substantiation of the Radioecological Model for Prediction in Behavior 90Sr in Cultivated Soil-Crop System: A Case Study of Two Experimental Agricultural Fields
by Nataša B. Sarap, Marko Ž. Daković, Ivica Djalovic, Željko Dolijanović, P.V. Vara Prasad and Marija M. Janković
Plants 2024, 13(13), 1798; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13131798 - 29 Jun 2024
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The radioactive fission product 90Sr has a sufficient half-life (28.8 years) to be detected long after its appearance in the environment. After its uptake into the soil-edible plant system, it enters the food chain and represents a potential source of contamination that [...] Read more.
The radioactive fission product 90Sr has a sufficient half-life (28.8 years) to be detected long after its appearance in the environment. After its uptake into the soil-edible plant system, it enters the food chain and represents a potential source of contamination that threatens human health. Due to these facts, tracking the distribution of the artificial radionuclide 90Sr in the soil–edible plant system is a subject of intense research. The tracking of the 90Sr radionuclide distribution in the soil profile, as well as in the crops on the long-term experimental fields was carried out using beta radiation spectrometry. The radiochemical analytical method was used to analyze the 90Sr content in cultivated soil and crops. The conducted study focused on the experimental substantiation of the developed model for predicting the behavior of 90Sr in the cultivated soil–crop system. The results of using the applied radioecological model for the transfer of 90Sr from the soil to the above-ground part of crops showed a relatively good agreement with the experimentally determined values of the soil–crop transfer factor, which indicates that the used model can be successfully applied for the prediction of the behavior of 90Sr in the soil–soil solution–crop system. Full article
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