Effect of Emerging Pollutants on Plants
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecotoxicology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 16599
Special Issue Editors
Interests: phytoremediation; identification of secondary metabolites in plant tissue cultures and in intact plants by using analytical techniques (HPLC); proteomic study; plant stress responses
Interests: analytical chemistry; organic chemistry; phytoremediation; pharmaceutics in envi-ronment; pharmacology
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, there has been increasing concern over the environmental risks of so-called “Emerging pollutants (EPs)”, which are defined as synthetic or naturally occurring chemicals that are not commonly monitored in the environment but which have the potential to enter the environment and cause adverse ecological and/or human health effects. EPs originate from a variety of product types such as human pharmaceuticals, veterinary medicines, nanomaterials, personal care products, paints, coatings, etc. EPs can be released into the environment via a number of routes (e.g., veterinary medicines that are used to treat animals at pasture, by the application of manure, biosolids or other solid waste materials to soil, by leaching, runoff and drainage processes). In some cases, the release of emerging pollutants into the environment has likely occurred for a long time, but they may not have been recognized until new detection methods were developed. The detection of ECs in environmental media can be challenging. Methods for detecting the small concentrations in which they occur in different environmental matrices (water, soil, plant or animal tissue, etc.) are currently insufficiently developed (e.g., for nanoparticles). Most of these pollutants are taken up by plants, and when they enter the tissue, they can cause serious damage to the plants. This could not only change the landscape’s appearance and climatic conditions, but predominantly decrease the yield of crops—sources of food for millions of people.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to our Special Issue, which aims to expand knowledge not only of the phytotoxic effects of these pollutants, but also to warn of the possibility of the accumulation of these pollutants or their metabolites in plant bodies and thus their transfer into the food chain.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following: the uptake of some emerging pollutants (e.g., see https://www.norman-network.com/nds/susdat/), their metabolism or accumulation, and the effect of emerging pollutants on the growth, metabolism, yield, genome, etc., of any plant species.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Radka Podlipna
Dr. Stanislav Smrček
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- emerging pollutants
- uptake
- metabolism
- accumulation
- phytotoxicity
- plants
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