**About the Editors**

#### **Maria Luce Bartucca**

Dr. Maria Luce Bartucca has been a researcher at the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences at the University of Perugia for many years. There, she has studied various aspects of phytoremediation, including xenobiotic detoxification, defensive enzymes and floating systems. She has also carried out research on plant nutrition, agrochemicals, safeners and biostimulants.

#### **Cinzia Forni**

Cinzia Forni is an Associate Professor of Botany in the Department of Biology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Her scientific research focuses on topics such as abiotic stress responses in plants, the production of secondary metabolites in vivo and in vitro, plant-growth-promoting bacteria and phytoremediation.

#### **Martina Cerri**

Martina Cerri is a researcher in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences at the University of Perugia. Her scientific research focuses on plant anatomy, plant physiology, plant reproduction, electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry.
