Soil Heavy Metals Threaten Agricultural Sustainability: Translocation Processes and Remediation Strategies

Dear Colleagues,

As a result of various mining activities and intensive agricultural practices, agricultural soils in extensive areas around the world are contaminated with heavy metals. Heavy metals are highly accumulative and toxic, and their accumulation through the food chain poses a significant public health hazard to local residents. Heavy metals in soil threaten the sustainability of agriculture and have attracted much attention from governments and researchers worldwide. Previous studies have shown that heavy metals are translocated through the soil–crop system, which is closely related to the processes of heavy metals in soil. However, the soil environment is complex and the activities of heavy metals are affected by many environmental factors. So far, our existing studies lack an in-depth understanding of this translocation process.

This Special Issue aims to comprehensively explore the heavy metal translocation process in soil, its environmental impacts, and remediation strategies in order to improve our understanding of heavy metal translocation patterns and remediation strategies. This Special Issue will summarize studies in different fields to optimize the available evaluation methods of assessing the public-health impacts of heavy metals, and will also feature papers on new methods and understanding of managing and classifying heavy metal-contaminated soil.

• The fractionation transformation process of heavy metals in soil its and influencing factors;
• Potential strategies for mitigating heavy metal activity in soil;
• The migration and translocation of heavy metals in soil–crop systems;
• A new approach to the evaluation and management of heavy metal-contaminated land parcels.

Dr. Wentao Yang
Guest Editor

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