1. Pollution in aquatic environs: Sources and consequences

Ricardo Antunes Azevedo; Department de Genetica Escola Superior de Agricutura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de sao Paulo, SEP 13418-900, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

2. Contamination load in aquatic environs: Impacts and challenges

Tihana Tekli; Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Agriculture, University J. J. Strossmayer in Osijek, Kralja Osijek, Croatia

3. Pollution phenomenon in bottom sediments in stressed environs

Sartaj Hussain Bhat; Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu City-501-1193, Japan

4. Threats and risks of contamination load on different biota

Moshe Sagi; The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, The Albert Katz Department of Dryland Biotechnologies, Ben-Gurion University, PO Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel

5. Current scenario of treatment technologies for removal of noxious substances in stressed environs

Rocio Leyva; Departamento de Fisiología Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain

6. Credibility on biosensors for monitoring contamination levels in disturbed

7. Role of ecofriendly techniques and approaches for remediation of contamination levels in different environs

Fernanda Maria Policarpo Tonelli

Department of Cellular Biology, Institute of Biological Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

8. Phytotechnology: a remediation tool for sustainable environs

9. Role of plants for degradation of noxious pollutants in stressed environs

Sha Liu; Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States

10. Values of aquatic plants for removal of toxic substances from aquatic environs

Muneeb U Rehman

Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud

11. Role of free floating macrophytes in abatement of disturbed environs

Jian-Kang Zhu; Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology and Centre for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201602, China

12. Mechanism and importance of phytoremediation

Olga Natalia Bustos López

Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, México

13. Credibility on biotechnology for sustainable degradation of noxious pollutants

Farhana Maqbool

Department of Biochemistry, Hazara University, Mansehra, 21300, KPK, Pakistan

14. Bioremediation: A viable approach for degradation of noxious pollutants

15. Viability of in-situ and ex-situ bioremediation approaches for degradation of noxious substances in stressed environs

N. Malash; Faculty of Agriculture, Menofiya University, Shibin El-Kom, Egypt

16. Phytoremediation technology: a sustainable solution for cleaning up of noxious pollutants from disturbed environs

Adeel Malik; Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea

17. Application of biotechnology for restoration of degraded environments

Dr. Rouf Ahmad Bhat (Ph.D) is working in Cluster University Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir, India on the capacity of Assistant Professor and has his specialisation in Limnology, Toxicology, Phytochemistry and Phytoremediation. Dr. Bhat has been teaching graduate and post graduate students of Environmental Sciences for the past three years. He is an author of more than 50 research papers and 30 book chapters, and has published more than 15 books with international publishers. He has presented and participated in numerous State, National and International conferences, seminars, workshops and symposium. Dr. Bhat has worked as an associate Environmental Expert in World Bank funded Flood Recovery Project and also Environmental Support Staff in Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded development projects. He has received many awards, appreciations and recognitions for his services to the science of water testing, air and noise analysis. He has served as editorial board member and reviewer of repute international journals. Dr. Bhat is still writing and experimenting with diverse capacities of plants for use in aquatic pollution.

Khalid Rehman Hakeem (Ph.D.) is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After completing his doctorate (Botany; specialization in Plant Eco-physiology and Molecular Biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, in 2011, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, for a short period. Later, he joined Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, and worked there as Postdoctorate Fellow in 2012 and Fellow Researcher (Associate Professor) from 2013 to 2016. Dr. Hakeem has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in plant eco-physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions as well as in environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels; also, he has served as the visiting scientist at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Currently, he is involved with a number of international research projects with different government organizations. So far, Dr. Hakeem has authored and edited more than 35 books with international publishers, including Springer Nature, Academic Press (Elsevier), and CRC Press. He also has to his credit more than 80 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 55 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers. At present, Dr. Hakeem serves as an editorial board member and reviewer of several high-impact international scientific journals from Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Cambridge, and John Wiley Publishers. He is included in the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is also a fellow of Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, member of the World Academy of Sciences, member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan, and member of Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Korea. Dr. Hakeem has been listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World, since 2014-2019. Currently, Dr. Hakeem is engaged in studying the plant processes at eco-physiological as well as molecular levels.