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Remediation of Heavy Metals-Contaminated Soils

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Soils".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2023) | Viewed by 8033

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Marina V. Burachevskaya

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Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-na-Donu, Russia
Interests: heavy metal fractionation; heavy metal pollution; heavy metal speciation; phytoremediation; bioaccumulation; soil remediation; heavy metal accumulation; soil chemistry; environmental monitoring; soil analysis
Dr. Arpna Kumari

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Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-na-Donu, Russia
Interests: Environmental Pollution; heavy metals stress; plant-soil-interaction; phytoremediation; nanoremediation; uptake and translocation

Special Issue Information

Anthropogenic and natural processes have led to the spread of chemical contamination in soils. Soil pollution with heavy metals (HMs) has become one of the most serious problems in agriculture, as it not only reduces crop yield, but also negatively affects human and animal health. The main threat of HMs is their tendency to accumulate in the soil and their weak degradation over time, which result in toxicity. Currently, there are many methods that can be used for remediation, both ex situ and in situ approaches, but they are unable to fully eliminate toxic elements. Ex situ approaches involve the removal of the contaminated soil layer and its further disposal, storage, or purification and return. In situ methods are widely used; they have many implementation options and are more accessible. In situ treatments make use of a variety of both organic and inorganic sorbents. Phytoremediation using HM hyperaccumulator plants and bioremediation using destructor microorganisms are also possible and widely used. Remediation methods should be cost-effective and environmentally friendly, and should reduce HMs’ mobility and bioavailability in soils. Each of the many remediation methods used has both advantages and disadvantages. The search for optimal ways to obtain and use the best method is a priority and urgent task facing researchers in solving the problem of soil pollution with heavy metals.

This Special Issue focuses on the development all remediation methods established to purify soils from HM pollution, reduce the availability of HMs in soils, improve the physical and chemical properties of the soil and, in general, increase soil fertility and the quality and quantity of crops. we welcome the submission of all types of articles, including original research, opinions, and reviews.

Prof. Dr. Marina V. Burachevskaya
Dr. Arpna Kumari
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • chemical pollution
  • soils
  • pollutants
  • purification
  • reducing bioavailability
  • clean yield
  • plant safety
  • immobilization
  • sorbents
  • sustainable agriculture

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A 10-Year Ecological Monitoring of Soils and Triticum aestivum in the Impact Zone of a Power Station
by Victor Chaplygin, Tamara Dudnikova, Saglara Mandzhieva, Tatiana Minkina, Anatoly Barakhov, Dina Nevidomskaya, Vishnu Rajput, Yuri Litvinov, Marina Burachevskaya, Natalia Chernikova, Olga Nazarenko, Andrey Barbashev and Svetlana Sushkova
Agriculture 2023, 13(3), 722; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13030722 - 21 Mar 2023
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Based on 10 years of environmental monitoring located around the emission zone of an electricity supplier, the main regularities have been studied for the content of heavy metals (HMs), such as Pb, Cd, Zn, Cu, Ni, Mn, and Cr, and 16 priority polycyclic [...] Read more.
Based on 10 years of environmental monitoring located around the emission zone of an electricity supplier, the main regularities have been studied for the content of heavy metals (HMs), such as Pb, Cd, Zn, Cu, Ni, Mn, and Cr, and 16 priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the soils of agricultural landscapes and their accumulation in Triticum aestivum. It has been shown that one of the most significant factors for the pollutants accumulation in soils and plants was the prevailing wind direction on the territory and atmospheric transfer of the dust particles of the enterprise with adsorbed pollutants. As the content of pollutants in the soil increased, their accumulation in Triticum aestivum increased with each season to a level exceeding maximum permissible concentrations (MPC), especially for Pb, Cd, and benzo[a]pyrene (BaP). The unambiguous influx of pollutants from the soil into the roots and further into the aboveground organs of the plant was typical only for Mn, Cr, and BaP, and the accumulation of other studied pollutants can be explained by their foliar influx. It has been established that Triticum aestivum was a more tolerant plant with respect to heavy metals pollution than PAHs. Full article
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Study on Safe Usage of Agricultural Land in Typical Karst Areas Based on Cd in Soil and Maize: A Case Study of Northwestern Guizhou, China
by Liyu Yang, Pan Wu and Wentao Yang
Agriculture 2022, 12(8), 1156; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12081156 - 04 Aug 2022
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Cadmium (Cd) is an unnecessary dietary toxin that is harmful to human health. The Cd translocation in soil-crops system varies greatly depending on different soil matrices; therefore, a valuable method that could accurately evaluate soil Cd thresholds needs to be proposed immediately. In [...] Read more.
Cadmium (Cd) is an unnecessary dietary toxin that is harmful to human health. The Cd translocation in soil-crops system varies greatly depending on different soil matrices; therefore, a valuable method that could accurately evaluate soil Cd thresholds needs to be proposed immediately. In the southwestern part of China, a typical karst mountainous area of east Asia, the results of our survey of 492 soil-maize samples in the region showed high Cd accumulation in the soil, with concentrations ranging from 0.07 to 31.95 mg kg−1. The Cd concentrations in maize kernels planted in those fields, however, were quite low, and only 4 samples exceeded the national standard. A comparative study with nonkarst areas revealed a low bioaccumulation factor for soil Cd. This may be interpreted as the weathering soil-forming process of mineral-bearing rock systems, leading to high accumulation as well as low bioavailability of Cd in karst soils. A total of 172 soil-maize samples were evaluated inaccurately by the national standard evaluation procedure, accounting for 34.96% of the total. Therefore, we proposed the species sensitivity distribution model to address this inaccurate assessment. The results show that the hazardous concentrations of 95% and 5% in maize fields were 2.2 and 85.1 mg kg−1 for soil pH ≤ 5.5, 2.5 and 108.5 mg kg−1 for 5.5 < pH ≤ 6.5, and 3.0 and 161.8 mg kg−1 for 6.5 < pH ≤ 7.5, respectively. The total number of unsuitable samples according to the evaluation results decreased from 172 to 2 after modification. Therefore, this result could be considered a more accurate assessment threshold. Full article
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Can Nanomaterials Improve the Soil Microbiome and Crop Productivity?
by Vishnu D. Rajput, Arpna Kumari, Sudhir K. Upadhyay, Tatiana Minkina, Saglara Mandzhieva, Anuj Ranjan, Svetlana Sushkova, Marina Burachevskaya, Priyadarshani Rajput, Elizaveta Konstantinova, Jagpreet Singh and Krishan K. Verma
Agriculture 2023, 13(2), 231; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13020231 - 18 Jan 2023
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Global issues such as soil deterioration, pollution, and soil productivity loss induced by industrialization and intensive agriculture pose a serious danger to agricultural production and sustainability. Numerous technical breakthroughs have been applied to clean up soil or boost the output of damaged soils, [...] Read more.
Global issues such as soil deterioration, pollution, and soil productivity loss induced by industrialization and intensive agriculture pose a serious danger to agricultural production and sustainability. Numerous technical breakthroughs have been applied to clean up soil or boost the output of damaged soils, but they have failed to restore or improve soil health to desired levels owing to expense, impossibility in a practical setting, or, to a lesser extent, high labor consumption. Recent nanotechnology advancements promise to improve soil quality indicators and crop yields while ensuring environmental sustainability. As previously discovered, the inclusion of nanomaterials (NMs) in soils could manipulate rhizospheric microbes or agriculturally important microbes and improve their functionality, facilitating the availability of nutrients to plants and improving root systems and crop growth in general, opening a new window for soil health improvement. A viewpoint on the difficulties and long-term outcomes of applying NMs to soils is provided, along with detailed statistics on how nanotechnology can improve soil health and crop productivity. Thus, evaluating nanotechnology may be valuable in gaining insights into the practical use of NMs for soil health enhancement. Full article
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