Sustainable Cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants on Contaminated Soils
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant–Soil Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 19
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Heavy metals are widely distributed in the environment due to natural processes and anthropogenic human activities. Remediating soils contaminated with heavy metals using medicinal and aromatic plants is a promising and sustainable approach. Cultivating medicinal and aromatic plants is an ecological, viable, aesthetic, and safe strategy for sustainable phytoremediation with multiple environmental and socio-economic benefits. Most promising aromatic plants for phytoremediation of heavy metal-contaminated sites have been identified from the families—Poaceae, Lamiaceae, Asteraceae, and Geraniaceae.
This Special Issue welcomes all kinds of research and reviews articles about the effects of heavy metals on plant growth and physiological and biochemical characteristics, classification of plants in terms of metal accumulation capacity, phytoremediation techniques, recent trends to assess the potential of individual medicinal and aromatic plants (herbs, succulents, shrubs, and trees) for phytoextraction and phytostabilization of heavy metal-contaminated soils, the physiological mechanism of these processes, the impact of metal contamination of soil on the yield and composition of essential oils from medicinal and aromatic plants, and biotechnological approaches to improve the efficiency of phytoremediation of medicinal and aromatic plants.
Prof. Dr. Violina Angelova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- heavy metals
- medicinal and aromatic plants
- metal accumulation
- phytoremediation
- essential oils
- sustainable approach
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