Plants absorb a number of elements from soil, some of which have no known biological
function and some are known to be toxic at low concentrations. As plants constitute the …

Arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury are toxic elements that are almost ubiquitously present
at low levels in the environment because of anthropogenic influences. Dietary intake of plant …

Heavy metal contamination is a globally recognized environmental issue, threatening
human life very seriously. Increasing population and high demand for food resulted in …

Anthropologic activities have transformed global biogeochemical cycling of heavy metals by
emitting considerable quantities of these metals into the atmosphere from diverse sources …

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 …

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 …

Natural processes and human activities have caused widespread background
contamination with non-essential toxic elements. The uptake and accumulation of cadmium …

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 …

The presence of heavy metals in food is a threat to human health. Exposure to heavy metals
as a result of consumption of contaminated vegetables, as well as their toxicity, is a serious …

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 …