Microbial Communities in Stressed and Polluted Soils Related to Plant Phylogeny Volume II
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant–Soil Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 4638
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Interests: environmental catalysts, bioremediation, nanoparticles, wastewater treatment, microbial ecology
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Interests: environmental microbiology; plant-microbe interaction; mycorrhizal symbiosis; fungal biology; microbial genomics
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Interests: carbon and nitrogen cycling in agroecosystems; soil health and sustainable agriculture; soil management and greenhouse gas emission; CBD hemp best management practices
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
Aims and Scope
The journal Plants is planning to publish a Special Issue entitled “Microbial Diversity in Stressed and Polluted Soils Related to Plant Phylogeny.” A relevant understanding of how microbial communities respond to natural and stressed environments that contain a broad variety of toxic organic and inorganic compounds will substantially expand our knowledge of microbial ecology, evolution, behaviour and conservation. Variation of the microbial community structure in natural or polluted soils is directly related to plant phylogeny. This has implications for plant selection in phytoremediation, as microbial associations may affect the health of introduced plants and the success of co-inoculated microbial strains. An integrated understanding of the relationships between microorganisms and plants will enable the design of treatments that specifically promote effective bioremediating communities.
Research areas of interest to this Special Issue include:
- Microbial interactions and plant phylogeny;
- Molecular, genomic, and metagenomic analysis of microbial biodiversity;
- Other culture-dependent methods will be considered, if they cover significant aspects of plant-microbe interactions;
- Microbial and plant ecology in stressed environments;
- Phytoremediation.
Related Special Issue
Microbial Communities in Stressed and Polluted Soils Related to Plant Phylogeny
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/plants/special_issues/Microbial_Plant
Dr. Saad El-Din Hassan
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Hijri
Dr. Arnab Bhowmik
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biotechnology of microbial ecology
- plant ecology
- biodiversity
- plant-microbe interactions
- high throughout sequencing
- phytoremediation
- microbial endophytes
- nanotechnology
- polluted soil
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