Contamination in a Paddy Field System with Toxic Elements

Dear Colleagues,

The pollution of the rice field system with heavy metals has affected the safety of rice and human health, and is a prominent concern. Bioremediation is gaining widespread popularity due to its advantages of low treatment cost, low environmental impact and high efficiency. Rhizosphere microorganisms are closely connected with plant roots, and play an important role in changing soil heavy metal forms, reducing the heavy metal phytotoxicity of soil, increasing the biomass of host plants, and enhancing the resistance of host plants to heavy metals. The mechanisms implicated in the capacity of rhizosphere microorganisms to enhance plant heavy metal resistance and bioremediation has become a research hotspot.

Aim and scope of the special Issue:

• Bioremediation of heavy metal pollution;
• Detoxification mechanism of rhizosphere microorganisms;
• Rhizosphere microbial ecology under heavy metals contamination;
• Screening and application of rhizosphere microorganisms;
• Role of rhizosphere microorganisms in resistance to heavy metals;
• Metabolic and ecological effects of rhizosphere microorganisms;
• Microbial combined plant remediation of heavy metal pollution;
• Mechanisms of microbial–plant interaction;
• Soil health and plant safety in paddy field system.

Cutting-edge research:

The foci of current research are the rhizosphere microbial composition, root–microbial interaction, rhizosphere microbial resistance to plant heavy metal stress, and related mechanisms of resistance to heavy metal stress. Through these studies, we can clarify the regulatory effects of plant–microbial bonding on plant growth and stress tolerance under heavy metal stress. Simultaneously, we will be provided with a scientific basis for the rhizosphere microbial remediation of heavy metal polluted environment.

What kind of papers we are soliciting:

Research articles, review articles and short communications focusing on recent advances in microbial remediation technology are welcome.

Dr. Xiaoyan Lin
Guest Editor

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• bioremediation
• heavy metals
• rhizosphere microbial
• agronomy
• paddy field system
• microbial ecology
• interaction
• in situ bioremediation
• molecular mechanism
• plant-growth promoting rhizobacteria