Metal/Metalloid Toxicity in Plants: Rhizosphere Mycorrhizal and Microbial Strategies for Stress Management and Remediation
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 1445
Special Issue Editor
Interests: metal and metalloid toxicity in plants; microbial tolerane to soil contamination with toxic metals; controlled-release polymer-coated fertilisers; rhizosphere chemistry; low moecular weight organic acids and mechanism on nutrient uptake by plants; metal speciations
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Dear Colleagues,
To enhance primary sector production and maintain land quality for future generations, addressing soil-related challenges is crucial. Abiotic stress, particularly metal/metalloid toxicity, poses a significant threat to crop production, leading to reduced growth, physiological changes, and cellular damage. Understanding plant responses to metal/metalloid toxicity is essential.
Crops grown in metal(loid)-contaminated soils can accumulate these substances, limiting their use for high-value agriculture. Managing crop quality and quantity in such soils is a pressing challenge. Investigating mechanisms involved in metal(loid) uptake and translocation in plants is key to developing mitigation strategies.
Certain soil microbes, like metal-mobilizing or metal-resistant bacteria, can detoxify metals in the rhizosphere. Meanwhile, mycorrhizal fungi form symbiotic partnerships with plants, enhancing nutrient absorption and growth. These fungi also improve metal/metalloid tolerance by increasing nutrient availability, producing metal-binding compounds, and adjusting soil pH.
In this Special Issue of Plants, we will spotlight rhizosphere mycorrhizal and microbial strategies for managing and remediating metal/metalloid stress in plants. We will also propose potential agronomical, microbiological, and molecular biological strategies to mitigate metal(loid) toxicity in plants.
Dr. Paramsothy Jeyakumar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- heavy metal
- metalloids
- rhizosphere chemistry
- mycorrhiza, microorganisms, contamination
- mitigation strategies
