Proper metal transport and homeostasis are critical for the growth and development of
plants. In order to potentially fortify plants pre-harvest with essential metals in aid of human …

Plants take up metals, including the essential micronutrients [iron (Fe), copper (Cu), zinc
(Zn), and manganese (Mn)] and the toxic heavy metal cadmium (Cd), from soil and …

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 …

Iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn), and copper (Cu) are essential micronutrient mineral
elements for living organisms, as they regulate essential cellular processes, such as …

Iron, copper and zinc are essential metals for cell metabolism. Plants have evolved different
schemes to efficiently mobilize low-solubility nutrients such as metals from their environment …

Metal toxicity for living organisms involves oxidative and/or genotoxic mechanisms. Plant
protection against metal toxicity occurs, at least in part, through control of root metal uptake …

Heavy metals are an interesting group of trace elements (TEs). Some of them are minutely
required for normal plant growth and development, while others have unknown biological …

Metal toxicity in plants is still a global problem for the environment, agriculture and ultimately
human health. This review initially addresses the current state of the environmental …

Heavy metals are natural elements that are found at various high background levels (Table
1.1) at different places throughout the world, due to various concentrations in the bedrock …

Hyperaccumulators are distinguished from non-hyperaccumulators on the basis of their
capacity to extract heavy metal ions from the soil, their more efficient root-to-shoot …