“…Hence, recently, there has been an increased interest in employing natural and/or organic chelants for phytoremediation technology (Chen et al, 2020;Huang et al, 2019;Singh et al, 2016). The natural and/or organic chelants, which consists of organic acids such as gluconic acid, citric acid (CA), 2,3-dihydroxy benzoic acid and homo citric acid are highly biodegradable in the soil which makes them suitable to be used on a large scale (Kaushik, 2015;Mousavi et al, 2021). Besides, metallothioneins (MTs) and phytochelatins (PCs) are also a part of natural chelators that have the capability to increase the mobility of PTEs in the soil (Gul et al, 2021).…”