Mine tailings are detrimental to natural plant growth due to their physicochemical
characteristics, such as high pH, high salinity, low water retention capacity, high heavy metal …

The contamination of the environment with toxic metals has become a worldwide problem.
Metal toxicity affects crop yields, soil biomass and fertility. Soils polluted with heavy metals …

Plants experience oxidative stress upon exposure to heavy metals that leads to cellular
damage. In addition, plants accumulate metal ions that disturb cellular ionic homeostasis. To …

Zinc (Zn) is an essential component of thousands of proteins in plants, although it is toxic in
excess. In this review, the dominant fluxes of Zn in the soil–root–shoot continuum are …

Worldwide more than 400 plant species are now known that hyperaccumulate various trace
metals (Cd, Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, and Zn), metalloids (As) and nonmetals (Se) in their shoots. Of …

Producing nutritious and safe foods sufficiently and sustainably is the ultimate goal of
modern agriculture. Past efforts have focused on increasing crop yields, but enhancing the …

Understanding the functional connections between genes, proteins, metabolites and mineral
ions is one of biology's greatest challenges in the postgenomic era. We describe here the …

Zinc is an essential mineral for a wide variety of physiological and biochemical processes.
To understand zinc transport in cereals, we identified putative zinc transporters in gene …

The hyperaccumulation of zinc (Zn) and cadmium (Cd) is a constitutive property of the
metallophyte Arabidopsis halleri. We therefore used Arabidopsis GeneChips to identify …

In this work we investigate the limits of uptake of metallic silver by two common
metallophytes, Brassica juncea (BJ) and Medicago sativa (MS) and assess the form and …