Soil Sustainable Remediation

Dear Colleagues,

Soil pollution involving organic contaminants (e.g., pesticides, phthalate esters, antibiotics, hormones, petroleum hydrocarbons and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, perfluorinated compounds, brominated flame retardants, and other persistent organic pollutants), inorganic contaminants (e.g., heavy metals), and emerging contaminants (e.g., micro/nano plastics) is a global problem that has been attracting more and more attention since it concerns food safety and human health. Bioremediation is an environmentally friendly, safe, low-cost and effective soil remediation technology that is regarded as a sustainable biotechnology and includes microbial remediation, animal remediation, and phytoremediation, as well as assembly techniques.

This Special Issue is mainly focused on the screening, identification, degradable characteristics, operation optimization, and application assessment of degradative microorganisms, animals, and plants and the mechanisms of interaction between these organisms and enviornmental  factors. Coverage spans the development of microbial community structure, fauna, and rhizosphere community response to the contaminant removal in soil remediation. Biology-based studies of biodegradative organism communities, biochemistry of biodegradative pathways, and enhancement of naturally occurring biodegradative properties and activities, design, and scale-up of laboratory processes and bioreactor systems are all welcome.

This research topic accepts both original research and review papers. The themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Soil microbial remeidiation
• Soil animal remediation
• Soil phytoremediation
• Assembly biotechnologies and enchancement

Dr. Xiaojing Li
Dr. Xiaodong Zhao
Guest Editors

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• soil pollution
• microbial remediation
• animal remediation
• phytoremediation
• functinal organisms
• biostimulation
• synergistic degradation
• sustainability