New eco-friendly approaches are required to improve plant biomass production. Beneficial
plant growth-promoting (PGP) bacteria may be exploited as excellent and efficient …

Zinc (Zn) is one of the most abundantly found heavy metals in the Earth's crust and is
reported to be an essential trace metal required for the growth of living beings, with it being a …

Copper (Cu) is an essential metal for human, animals and plants, although it is also
potentially toxic above supra-optimal levels. In plants, Cu is an essential cofactor of …

Salinization is recognized as a threat to soil fertility worldwide. A challenge in understanding
the effects of salinity on soil microbial communities is the fact that it can be difficult to …

Conventional mechanical and biological wastewater treatment is unable to completely
eliminate all pollutants, which can therefore enter surface water bodies together with treated …

The world is facing a hard battle against soil pollution such as heavy metals. Metagenome
sequencing, 16S rRNA sequencing, and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) …

Heavy metal resistance genes (MRGs) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in bacteria
can respond to the inducement of heavy metals. However, the co-occurrence of MRGs and …

Abstract Cd, Pb and As stand as the most prominent contaminants prevailing in Chinese
soils. In the present study, biochars derived from water hyacinth (BCW) and rice straw (BCR) …

Understanding the strategies that the roots of hyperaccumulating plants use to extract heavy
metals from soils is important for optimizing phytoremediation. The rhizosphere …

Soil pollution occurring at mining sites has adverse impacts on soil microbial diversity. New
approaches, such as metagenomics approach, have become a powerful tool to investigate …