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Book SynopsisContaminants and soil-crop plant systems.- Emerging soil contaminants and their persistence in crop plants, soil, and environments.- Nanofertilizers in improving soil quality and crop plant growth.- Use of phytoremediation in improving soil status.- Cadmium: uptake, toxicity and tolerance in crop plants and management of Cd-contaminated soil.- Lead: uptake, toxicity and tolerance in crop plants and management of Pb-contaminated soil .- Mercury: uptake, toxicity and tolerance in crop plants and management of Hg-contaminated soil.- Arsenic: uptake, toxicity and tolerance in crop plants and management of As-contaminated soil.- Zinc: uptake, toxicity and tolerance in crop plants and management of Zn-contaminated soil.- Nickel: uptake, toxicity and tolerance in crop plants and management of Ni-contaminated soil.- Silicon: uptake, toxicity and tolerance in crop plants and management of Si-contaminated soil.- Exploring genetic and molecular methods to induce crop plant tolerance under various contamination.- Biological tools for improving crop plant growth under contaminants.- Understanding the impact of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides stress for crop plant growth and production.- Combined impact of heavy metal and oil sludge on crop plant growth, physiology, and contaminant removal.- Mitigating metal-induced toxicity in crop plants using PGPR.- Understanding physiological and biochemical pathways responsible for stress tolerance mechanisms in crop plants.- Managing defence mechanisms in crop plants using phytohormones under contaminants.- Managing defence mechanisms in crop plants using nutrients under contaminants.- Managing defence mechanisms in crop plants using nanomaterials under contaminants.- Improving crop plants production under stressed-soils using poly-omics techniques and transcriptomic analysis.- Safety issues associated with the usesof micro and nano contaminants.
