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 …

Metals contaminate the soil when present in high concentrations causing soil and ultimately
environmental pollution.“Phytoremediation” is the use of plants to remove pollutants from …

Toxic metals/metalloids are considered leading environmental contaminants for world
agriculture. Metal/metalloid pollution in the crop growing area increases their accumulation …

Heavy metal detoxification in plants is a phenomenon resulting from complex interactions
among interconnected physiological pathways and defense shunts leading to reactive …

Metal hyperaccumulation is a trait present in over 450 higher plant species.
Hyperaccumulators are also tolerant to metals, but hyperaccumulation and tolerance are …

Heavy metals include the transition-metal elements essential to plant nutrition: iron (Fe), zinc
(Zn), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni) and molybdenum (Mo), cobalt (Co)(which is …

Plants exposed to excess metals are challenged by an increased generation of reactive
oxygen species (ROS) such as superoxide (O 2•-), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and the …

Heavy metal (HMs) pollution is regarded as one of the major concerns for soil and water,
causing varieties of toxic and stress effects on plants and ecosystems. It has become one of …

Mineral nutrition is one of the key factors determining plant productivity. In plants, metal
homeostasis is achieved through the functioning of a complex system governing metal …

This title focuses on the many aspects of the interaction between plants and heavy metals.
Not only it describes the effects of heavy metal toxicity on the plant cell and its organs but it …