Plants have developed sophisticated mechanisms to tightly control the acquisition and
distribution of copper and iron in response to environmental fluctuations. Recent studies with …

To survive in variable soil conditions, plants possess homeostatic mechanisms to maintain a
suitable concentration of essential heavy metal ions. Certain plants, inhabiting heavy metal …

Iron, zinc, copper and manganese are essential metals for cellular enzyme functions while
cadmium, mercury and the metalloid arsenic lack any biological function. Both, essential …

In the course of evolution, plants adapted to widely differing metal availabilities in soils and
therefore represent an important source of natural variation of metal homeostasis networks …

Plants directly assimilate minerals from the environment and thus are key for acquisition of
metals by all subsequent consumers. Limited bio-availability of copper, zinc and iron in soil …

This paper reviews the recent advances in understanding of metal removal from
contaminated soils, using either hyperaccumulator plants, or high biomass crop species …

Many trace metals are essential micronutrients, but also potent toxins. Due to natural and
anthropogenic causes, vastly different trace metal concentrations occur in various habitats …

Heavy metal ions such as Cu2+, Zn2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Ni2+ and Co2+ are essential
micronutrients for plant metabolism but when present in excess, these, and non-essential …

The mechanisms plants use to transport metals from roots to shoots are not completely
understood. It has long been proposed that organic molecules participate in metal …

Heavy metal accumulation in soil has been rapidly increased due to various natural
processes and anthropogenic (industrial) activities. As heavy metals are non-biodegradable …