Heavy metal contamination has become a severe threat to food safety globally. Phytoremediation is an ecological and economic soil remediation technology for heavy metal contaminations, although it is currently limited in field implementation due to its low efficiency and long remediation period. The key to phytoremediation is plant capacity to uptake and accumulate heavy metals. Therefore, research on the mechanisms of plant resistance to toxic heavy metals, promotion of plant uptake and accumulation of heavy metals, and improvement of phytoremediation efficiency is of vital importance for the development of optimized phytoremediation technologies.
In the past few years, phytoremediation has become a hot area of research that falls at the intersection of plant biology and environmental science. Significant advances have been made in deciphering the physiological and molecular mechanisms of heavy metal resistance, as well as in species or germplasm enhancement, novel method establishment, and agronomy implementations.
We welcome submissions of different types of manuscripts, including original research papers, reviews, and methods, on the following subtopics (but not limited to):
• Physiological mechanisms of plant resistance to heavy metals: uptake, translocation, accumulation, compartmentalization, binding.
• Molecular mechanisms: transcriptomics, metabolomics, genomics, the function of resistance genes, etc.
• Phytoremediation technologies: novel plant species, germplasm enhancement, and methods.
Please note that purely descriptive studies will not be considered for review unless they provide incremental advancement of knowledge in phytoremediation.
Heavy metal contamination has become a severe threat to food safety globally. Phytoremediation is an ecological and economic soil remediation technology for heavy metal contaminations, although it is currently limited in field implementation due to its low efficiency and long remediation period. The key to phytoremediation is plant capacity to uptake and accumulate heavy metals. Therefore, research on the mechanisms of plant resistance to toxic heavy metals, promotion of plant uptake and accumulation of heavy metals, and improvement of phytoremediation efficiency is of vital importance for the development of optimized phytoremediation technologies.
In the past few years, phytoremediation has become a hot area of research that falls at the intersection of plant biology and environmental science. Significant advances have been made in deciphering the physiological and molecular mechanisms of heavy metal resistance, as well as in species or germplasm enhancement, novel method establishment, and agronomy implementations.
We welcome submissions of different types of manuscripts, including original research papers, reviews, and methods, on the following subtopics (but not limited to):
• Physiological mechanisms of plant resistance to heavy metals: uptake, translocation, accumulation, compartmentalization, binding.
• Molecular mechanisms: transcriptomics, metabolomics, genomics, the function of resistance genes, etc.
• Phytoremediation technologies: novel plant species, germplasm enhancement, and methods.
Please note that purely descriptive studies will not be considered for review unless they provide incremental advancement of knowledge in phytoremediation.