Agriculture in the 21st century is facing multiple challenges, such as those related to soil
fertility, climatic fluctuations, environmental degradation, urbanization, and the increase in …

Phytoremediation is an emerging technology that uses plants and their associated microbes
to clean up pollutants from the soil, water and air. In recent years, phytoremediation assisted …

Soil metal contamination is a major concern due to the ever-rising number of areas afflicted
worldwide and the detrimental effects of metals to the environment and human health. Due …

Plants and microbes coexist or compete for survival and their cohesive interactions play a
vital role in adapting to metalliferous environments, and can thus be explored to improve …

Rapid industrialization, modern agricultural practices and other anthropogenic activities add
a significant quantity of toxic heavy metals into the environment, which induces severe toxic …

Land that has little to no utility for agriculture or industry is considered marginal land. This
kind of terrain is frequently found on the edge of deserts or other arid regions. The amount of …

Phytoremediation has been considered as a promising technique to decontaminate polluted
soils. However, climatic stress particularly salinity, is a potential threat to soil properties and …

Contamination of soils and water bodies by toxic heavy metals (HMs) such as cadmium
(Cd), chromium (Cr), mercury (Hg), arsenic (As), lead (Pb), and zinc (Zn), is a major …

Accumulation of heavy metals in agricultural soils due to human production activities—
mining, fossil fuel combustion, and application of chemical fertilizers/pesticides—results in …

This article provides useful information for understanding the specific role of microbes in the
pollutant removal process in floating treatment wetlands (FTWs). The current literature is …