Preface Michel Chalot 1. Plant-microbiome interactions and their role in recovering ecosystems from organic contaminants Anna Barra Caracciolo 2. Aquatic macrophytes: the potential candidate for polluted water phytoremediation Blanca Velasco Arroyo 3. Rare earth elements in plants : uptake, accumulation and tolerance Damien Blaudez 4. Poplar as a woody model for phytomanagement strategies Michel Chalot 5. Plant-based remediation of industrially contaminated soils: principles and case study Carlos Garbisu and Maria Gomez 6. Phytoremediation of Arsenic contaminated soils by hyperaccumulating fern Pteris vittata Yanshan Chen 7. Effects of phytomanagement of heavy metal polluted soils with woody plants on functional activity and functional genes abundance and diversity Giancarlo Renalla 8. Cucurbits for cleanup of soils contaminated with persistent and emerging organic pollutants: state of the art, future perspectives and challenges Elzbieta Mierzejewska, Sofie Thijs and Jaco Vangronsveld 9. Phytoremediaton in the Guadiamar Green Corridor (SW Spain): trends of trace element uptake by plants and effects on soil fungal diversity Paula Madejón Rodriguez 10. Metal hyperaccumulation mechanisms in plants Marc Hanikenne