Despite a long history of use in phytomanagement strategies, the impacts of poplar trees on
the structure and function of microbial communities that live in the soil remain largely …

Abandoned unrestored mines are an important environmental concern as they typically
remain unvegetated for decades, exposing vast amounts of mine waste to erosion. Several …

Until recently, many phytoremediation studies were focused solely on a plants ability to
reclaim heavy metal (HM) polluted soil through a range of different processes, such as …

We here assess the biodiversity of the rhizosphere microbial communities of metal-tolerant
plant species Arabidopsis arenosa, Arabidopsis halleri, Deschampsia caespitosa, and …

Plant-microbe associations are increasingly recognized as an inextricable part of plant
biology and biogeochemistry. Microbes play an essential role in the survival and …

Despite the global importance of forests, it is virtually unknown how their soil microbial
communities adapt at the phylogenetic and functional level to long-term metal pollution …

We performed a field trial to evaluate the response of different poplar clones to heavy
metals. We found that poplar plants of the same clone, propagated by cuttings, had a …

Despite the fact that microbes act as key indicators of soil heavy metal (HMs) toxicity, their
variations and adaptation to the long-term HMs pollution in mine ecosystems, particularly …

At a former wood preservation site contaminated with Cu, various phytomanagement options
have been assessed in the last decade through physicochemical, ecotoxicological and …

Soil microbial communities play a key role in plant nutrition and stress tolerance. This is
particularly true in sites contaminated by trace metals, which often have low fertility and …