Allah Ditta is an Assistant Professor at Department of Environmental Sciences, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Sheringal, Dir upper, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He earned his BSc (Hons) MSc (Hons) from University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan and received his Ph.D. from Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan. He has carried out research projects in the areas of Eco-restoration by using integrated organic, inorganic and microbial strategies. He has also served as Assistant Professor at Department of Environmental Sciences, PMAS, Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan. His major research interests encompass broad, interdisciplinary field of plant production, with a focus on eco-restoration under abiotic stresses. The breadth of his research spans from degraded land ecological amelioration, using integrated and sustainable approaches. Dr. Ditta has published more than 85 research and review articles (Impact factor 210.43) in internationally well-recognized journals along with thirteen book chapters. Dr. Sajid Mehmood completed his BSc (Hons.) in Agriculture from Arid Agricultural University of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and his MSc (Hons.) in Soil Science and graduated in 2014. In 2015, he moved to Wuhan, China and finished his Ph.D. at the College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, examining the different types of risk, management strategies and efficiency at crop level using biochar, slag and ferrous manganese ore. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Hainan University in the Department of Ecology and Environment. He has research experience on as-is and modified (magnetic and acidic) biochars. Dr. Sajid worked as a research associate in a project of National Natural Science Foundation of China. Dr. Sajid has been on the Editorial board and the panel of reviewers of several reputed journals of Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, RSC, Oxford University Press, The Royal Society, CSIRO, PLOS and John Wiley & Sons. Dr. Muhammad Imtiaz is a Senior Scientist at Soil and Environmental Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan, and also as Associate Professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou (Guangdong), P.R. China focusing on the fate of heavy metals stress in the soil environment, and in plants as well as on their remediation approached for the sustainable agriculture. Dr. Muhammad Imtiaz has research and teaching experience and has published research in various well reputed scientific impact factor journals. He has participated in many national and international conferences and seminars, and presented his research there. Dr. Muhammad Imtiaz has been working as Section Editor of "Journal of Environment and Agriculture (JEA) since 2017. Dr. Shuxin Tu is Professor in Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, and Director of Experimental Teaching Centre, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China. Dr Tu received his BS degree and MS degree of Soil and Plant Nutrition and Ph.D. degree of Biophysics. He was a trainee of soil sciences in 1986 in International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Philippines, and was a postdoctoral researcher of microelement biogeochemistry at the University of Florida, USA. His research interest includes biogeochemistry of trace metals in soil-water-plant ecosystem and silicone modified materials and its use in remediation of polluted environment.