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 …

Antioxidants as modulators of arsenic-induced oxidative stress tolerance in plants: An overview

F Zulfiqar, M Ashraf - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Arsenic (As) is a highly toxic contaminant in the environment. Although both inorganic and
organic types of arsenic exist in the environment, the most common inorganic forms of As …

Anthocyanin-mediated arsenic tolerance in plants

GJ Ahammed, Y Yang - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Plants detoxify toxic metal (loid) s by accumulating diverse metabolites. Beside scavenging
excess reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced by metal (loid) s, some metabolites chelate …

[HTML][HTML] Calcium oxide nanoparticles have the role of alleviating arsenic toxicity of barley

MM Nazir, Q Li, M Noman, Z Ulhassan, S Ali… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Arsenic (As) contamination in agricultural soils has become a great threat to the sustainable
development of agriculture and food safety. Although a lot of approaches have been …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoremediation for heavy metal contamination: A review

Q Ali, MA Zia, M Kamran, M Shabaan, U Zulfiqar… - Hybrid Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Pollution is a significant problem in both industrialized and developing countries, as well as
in some developed countries. Heavy metal pollution poses a crucial concern for …

Silicon reduces the uptake of cadmium in hydroponically grown rice seedlings: why nanoscale silica is more effective than silicate

J Cui, Q Jin, F Li, L Chen - Environmental Science: Nano, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Our previous study suggested that the application of silicon (Si) could reduce the uptake and
accumulation of Cd in rice. However, the effects of different Si forms on the uptake and …

[HTML][HTML] Negative impacts of arsenic on plants and mitigation strategies

D Sinha, S Datta, R Mishra, P Agarwal, T Kumari… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Arsenic (As) is a metalloid prevalent mainly in soil and water. The presence of As above
permissible levels becomes toxic and detrimental to living organisms, therefore, making it a …

Physiological and transcriptomic study reveal SeNPs-mediated AsIII stress detoxification mechanisms involved modulation of antioxidants, metal transporters, and …

M Zeeshan, YX Hu, XH Guo, CY Sun, A Salam… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Physiological changes and genome-wide alteration in gene expression were performed in
soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) roots exposed to AsⅢ (25 μmol/L) alone and …

Seed priming with nitric oxide and/or spermine mitigate the chromium toxicity in rice (Oryza sativa) seedlings by improving the carbon-assimilation and minimising the …

F Basit, Z Ulhassan, Q Mou, MM Nazir, J Hu… - Functional Plant …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
Chromium (Cr) is a serious environmental contaminant that drastically limited the crop
yields. Nitric oxide (NO) and spermine (Spm) portrayal significance in improving the plant …

Rhodamine functionalized cellulose for mercury detection and removal: A strategy for providing in situ fluorimetric and colorimetric responses

M Li, S Zhang, P Zhang, K Qin, B Xu, J Zhou… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
A new cellulose-based material as adsorbent was prepared for Hg (II) detection and removal
from aqueous solution. Rhodamine moiety was conjugated with cellulose as an efficient …