Heavy metal and metalloid toxicity in horticultural plants: Tolerance mechanism and remediation strategies

I Noor, H Sohail, J Sun, MA Nawaz, G Li… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metal/metalloids (HMs) are among the primary soil pollutants that limit crop
production worldwide. Plants grown in HM contaminated soils exhibit reduced growth and …

MicroRNAs as potential targets for abiotic stress tolerance in plants

V Shriram, V Kumar, RM Devarumath… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The microRNAs (miRNAs) are small (20–24 nt) sized, non-coding, single stranded
riboregulator RNAs abundant in higher organisms. Recent findings have established that …

Melatonin confers plant tolerance against cadmium stress via the decrease of cadmium accumulation and reestablishment of microRNA-mediated redox homeostasis

Q Gu, Z Chen, X Yu, W Cui, J Pan, G Zhao, S Xu… - Plant Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Although melatonin-alleviated cadmium (Cd) toxicity both in animals and plants have been
well studied, little is known about its regulatory mechanisms in plants. Here, we discovered …

Melatonin confers cadmium tolerance by modulating critical heavy metal chelators and transporters in radish plants

L Xu, F Zhang, M Tang, Y Wang, J Dong… - Journal of Pineal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cadmium (Cd) is an environmental pollutant that causes health hazard to living organisms.
Melatonin (MT) has emerged as a ubiquitous pleiotropic molecule capable of coordinating …

Metabolomic analysis with GC-MS to reveal potential metabolites and biological pathways involved in Pb & Cd stress response of radish roots

Y Wang, L Xu, H Shen, J Wang, W Liu, X Zhu… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The radish (Raphanus sativus L.) is an important root vegetable crop. In this study, the
metabolite profiling analysis of radish roots exposed to lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) stresses …

Artificial microRNA mediated gene silencing in plants: progress and perspectives

M Tiwari, D Sharma, PK Trivedi - Plant molecular biology, 2014 - Springer
Homology based gene silencing has emerged as a convenient approach for repressing
expression of genes in order to study their functions. For this purpose, several antisense or …

Identification of novel and salt-responsive miRNAs to explore miRNA-mediated regulatory network of salt stress response in radish (Raphanus sativus L.)

X Sun, L Xu, Y Wang, R Yu, X Zhu, X Luo, Y Gong… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Salt stress is one of the most representative abiotic stresses that severely affect
plant growth and development. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are well known for their significant …

Intronic microRNA‐directed regulation of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species enhances plant stress tolerance in Arabidopsis

WB Xu, L Zhao, P Liu, QH Guo, CA Wu… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play crucial roles in regulating plant development and stress
responses. However, the functions and mechanism of intronic miRNAs in plants are poorly …

Genome-wide transcriptome and functional analysis of two contrasting genotypes reveals key genes for cadmium tolerance in barley

F Cao, F Chen, H Sun, G Zhang, ZH Chen, F Wu - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background Cadmium (Cd) is a severe detrimental environmental pollutant. To
adapt to Cd-induced deleterious effects, plants have evolved sophisticated defence …

High-throughput deep sequencing reveals the important role that microRNAs play in the salt response in sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.)

Z Yang, P Zhu, H Kang, L Liu, Q Cao, J Sun, T Dong… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small regulatory RNAs, have been proven to
play important roles in plant growth, development and stress responses. Sweet potato …