Heavy Metal Pollution and Prevention in Agricultural Soils
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2025 | Viewed by 136
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid advancement of industrialization has significantly worsened environmental degradation, with human activities contributing to substantial heavy metal infiltration into farmland soils. Consequently, crops absorb and accumulate these harmful metals during their growth. Over time, these metals can build up in the human body, potentially causing severe health issues and posing a long-term threat to human well-being. Remediating and managing farmland soils with light to moderate heavy metal pollution presents unique challenges. The primary difficulty lies in balancing the preservation of arable land with the minimization of metal accumulation in crops. Although extensive research has yielded some practical interim results, many issues persist due to objective constraints, necessitating further exploration.
This Special Issue aims to explore in depth how to restrict heavy metal activity in farmland soils and reduce heavy metal accumulation in crops. Through this Special Issue, we hope to provide references and guidance for the safe utilization of farmland soils contaminated by heavy metals.
Dr. Bo Xu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- heavy metals
- accumulation
- translocation
- agricultural soil
- soil remediation
- hazards and impacts
- crops
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