Background Global climate is changing more rapidly than ever, threatening plant growth and
productivity while exerting considerable direct and indirect effects on the quality and quantity …

Highlights•Strategy I plants secrete riboflavins or phenolics to facilitate Fe
acquisition.•Strategy II plants secrete phytosiderophores to acquire Fe.•Exudation of organic …

Root exudates play a major role in the mobilization of sparingly soluble nutrients in the
rhizosphere. Since the amount and composition of major metabolites in root exudates from …

Iron (Fe) deficiency-induced chlorosis is a major nutritional disorder in crops growing in
calcareous soils. Iron deficiency in fruit tree crops causes chlorosis, decreases in vegetative …

Poor iron (F e) availability in soil represents one of the most important limiting factors of
agricultural production and is closely linked to physical, chemical and biological processes …

Iron is an essential element for life on Earth and its shortage, or excess, in the living
organism may lead to severe health disorders. Plants serve as the primary source of dietary …

The aim of this work is to review the current knowledge on the effects of plant metabolism
(C3, C4, and CAM) on root exudation and on the methods of exudate collection as well as …

Polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) pose a threat to the aquatic environment due to their
environmental persistence. The removal of PFAS using constructed wetlands (CWs) has …

Every organism on the earth maintains some kind of interaction with its neighbours. As
plants are sessile, they sense the varied above-ground and below-ground environmental …

The best known silicon (Si)-accumulating plant, rice (Oryza sativa L.), stores most of its Si in
leaves, but the importance of Si has been limited to a mechanical role. Our initial studies …