Pollution of the environment with the toxic heavy metals has become one of the major
causes for worry for human health in both emerging and advanced countries. Metal …

Metal contamination issues are becoming increasingly common in India and elsewhere, with
many documented cases of metal toxicity in mining industries, foundries, smelters, coal …

Heavy metals bioaccumulation and bio amplification in the environment are serious
constraints for plants and all living organisms. Heavy metals have a serious impact on crop …

Plants must adapt themselves to the prevailing conditions for their survival, resulting in the
acquisition of a wide range of metal tolerance mechanisms. Heavy metal-contaminated …

Naturally plants are exposed with many adverse environmental conditions like biotic and
abiotic stress. Despite all others stresses heavy metal stress is one of great importance …

Plants are sessile organisms, and in order to survive they have to combat with the
surrounding environment. Due to the numerous anthropogenic activities, an excessive level …

Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-
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Metals like zinc, iron and copper are essential micronutrients required for a wide range of
physiological processes in all plant organs for the activities of various metal-dependent …

Whilst heavy metal phytotoxicity has been known for more than a century, it is astonishing
that interest in the effects of heavy metals on organisms has only recently received added …

Heavy metals such as Fe, Mn, Cu, Ni, Co, Cd, Zn, Hg and arsenic are for long being
accumulated in soils through industrial waste and sewage disposal. Although some of these …