Transformation Process and Toxic Effects of Pollutants in Agricultural Environment

Dear Colleagues,

The agricultural environment is very important for human beings to survive on earth, especially soil, water, crops, and other factors that are closely related to human health. Pollutants, including heavy metals, emerging pollutants, and microplastics, enter the agricultural environment along with the human production process, posing a certain threat to agricultural safety production, such as excessive heavy metals in agricultural products and pesticide materials, which seriously affect human health. Therefore, it is of great significance to accurately assess the transformation and migration mechanisms of pollutants and their toxicity changes. The source, distribution, migration process of pollutants, and impact of toxic changes on agricultural safety production need to be further studied. It is important to determine the quality and pollution (e.g., the type and degree of pollutants, the source, the distribution in the soil–plant system, and the change in toxicity, etc.) and carry out the research and development of pollution control technologies for ensuring agricultural safety production. The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish submissions on technologies and products that affect the transport of pollutants and their toxicity changes in the agricultural environment. This may involve the agri-environmental behaviors and processes of pollutants, mechanisms affecting distribution, migration, and transformation processes in soil–crop systems, and agri-environmental health risk assessment. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The quality of the agricultural environment is affected by human production processes;
• Agricultural environmental pollutants (heavy metals, emerging pollutants, microplastics, etc.);
• The migration and transformation processes of pollutants and their toxicity changes in the water–soil–crop system are driven by human production activities and environmental factors;
• Identify the sources of pollutants in the agricultural environment and their impact on agricultural safety;
• The impact of pollutants in the agricultural environment on food safety production and its treatment technology.

Dr. Changbo Zhang
Dr. Liang Peng
Dr. Weijie Xue
Guest Editors

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• heavy metal pollution
• emerging contaminants
• contamination remediation
• contaminated farmland
• ecotoxicological aspects of the agro-environment
• microplastics
• toxicity