Nutritional micronutrient deficiencies and exposure to pollutant metals threaten human
health globally. Plant crops are at the beginning of a food chain that largely determines food …

Plants, like all other organisms, have evolved different mechanisms to maintain
physiological concentrations of essential metal ions and to minimize exposure to non …

Cadmium is an environmental pollutant with high toxicity that negatively affects plant growth
and development. To understand the molecular mechanisms of plant response to cadmium …

Transcriptional regulation in response to cadmium treatment was investigated in both roots
and leaves of Arabidopsis, using the whole genome CATMA microarray containing at least …

Cadmium is a well-known environmental pollutant with distinctly toxic effects on plants. It can
displace certain essential metals from a wealth of metalloproteins, and thus disturb many …

Over the past 200 years emissions of toxic heavy metals have risen tremendously and
significantly exceed those from natural sources for practically all metals. Uptake and …

Plants being sessile are susceptible to heavy metals (HMs) toxicity and respond differentially
to hostile environments. The toxicity of HM is governed by the type of ion and its …

The cellular redox state is an important determinant of metal phytotoxicity. In this study we
investigated the influence of cadmium (Cd) and copper (Cu) stress on the cellular redox …

The paper summarizes present knowledge in the field of higher plant responses to
cadmium, an important environmental pollutant. The principal mechanisms reviewed here …

Cadmium (Cd) is an important metal due to its industrial use but also one of the most
dangerous metals because of its accumulation in the environment. This can eventually lead …