A review on bioremediation approach for heavy metal detoxification and accumulation in plants

PR Yaashikaa, PS Kumar, S Jeevanantham… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the accumulation of toxic heavy metals in soil and water streams is considered a
serious environmental problem that causes various harmful effects on plants and animals …

Heavy metals and arsenic stress in food crops: Elucidating antioxidative defense mechanisms in hyperaccumulators for food security, agricultural sustainability, and …

PK Rai, C Sonne, KH Kim - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The spread of heavy metal (loid) s at soil-food crop interfaces has become a threat to
sustainable agricultural productivity, food security, and human health. The eco-toxic effects …

Heavy metal accumulation and signal transduction in herbaceous and woody plants: paving the way for enhancing phytoremediation efficiency

ZB Luo, J He, A Polle, H Rennenberg - Biotechnology Advances, 2016 - Elsevier
Heavy metal (HM)-accumulating herbaceous and woody plants are employed for
phytoremediation. To develop improved strategies for enhancing phytoremediation …

Recent advances in phyto-combined remediation of heavy metal pollution in soil

S Deng, X Zhang, Y Zhu, R Zhuo - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
The global industrialization and modernization have witnessed a rapid progress made in
agricultural production, along with the issue of soil heavy metal (HM) pollution, which has …

Molecular mechanisms in phytoremediation of environmental contaminants and prospects of engineered transgenic plants/microbes

PK Rai, KH Kim, SS Lee, JH Lee - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Concerns about emerging environmental contaminants have been growing along with
industrialization and urbanization around the globe. Among various options for remediating …

How can we take advantage of halophyte properties to cope with heavy metal toxicity in salt-affected areas?

S Lutts, I Lefèvre - Annals of botany, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background Many areas throughout the world are simultaneously contaminated by high
concentrations of soluble salts and by high concentrations of heavy metals that constitute a …

Phytoextraction of toxic metals: a central role for glutathione

CS Seth, T REMANS, E KEUNEN… - Plant, cell & …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoextraction has a promising potential as an environmentally friendly clean‐up method
for soils contaminated with toxic metals. To improve the development of efficient …

Overexpression of bacterial γ‐glutamylcysteine synthetase mediates changes in cadmium influx, allocation and detoxification in poplar

J He, H Li, C Ma, Y Zhang, A Polle… - New …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Overexpression of bacterial γ‐glutamylcysteine synthetase in the cytosol of P opulus
tremula× P. alba produces higher glutathione (GSH) concentrations in leaves, thereby …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the role of dark septate endophyte (DSE) colonizing maize (Zea mays) under cadmium stress: physiological, cytological and genic aspects

J Wang, T Li, G Liu, JM Smith, Z Zhao - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
A growing body of evidence suggests that plant root-associated fungi such as dark septate
endophytes (DSE) can help plants overcome many biotic and abiotic stresses, of great …

Expression in Arabidopsis and cellular localization reveal involvement of rice NRAMP, OsNRAMP1, in arsenic transport and tolerance

M Tiwari, D Sharma, S Dwivedi, M Singh… - Plant, Cell & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Irrigation of paddy fields to arsenic (As) containing groundwater leads to As accumulation in
rice grains and causes serious health risk to the people worldwide. To reduce As intake via …