Toxic heavy metal and metalloid accumulation in crop plants and foods

S Clemens, JF Ma - Annual review of plant biology, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury are toxic elements that are almost ubiquitously present
at low levels in the environment because of anthropogenic influences. Dietary intake of plant …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy metal tolerance in plants: role of transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and ionomics

S Singh, P Parihar, R Singh, VP Singh… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Heavy metal contamination of soil and water causing toxicity/stress has become one
important constraint to crop productivity and quality. This situation has further worsened by …

Iron transport and its regulation in plants

T Kobayashi, T Nozoye, NK Nishizawa - Free Radical Biology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Iron is an essential element for plants as well as other organisms, functioning in various
cellular processes, including respiration, chlorophyll biosynthesis, and photosynthesis …

Cadmium bioavailability, uptake, toxicity and detoxification in soil-plant system

M Shahid, C Dumat, S Khalid, NK Niazi… - … and toxicology volume …, 2017 - Springer
This review summarizes the findings of the most recent studies, published from 2000 to
2016, which focus on the biogeochemical behavior of Cd in soil-plant systems and its impact …

Vacuolar compartmentalization as indispensable component of heavy metal detoxification in plants

SS Sharma, KJ Dietz, T Mimura - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Plant cells orchestrate an array of molecular mechanisms for maintaining plasmatic
concentrations of essential heavy metal (HM) ions, for example, iron, zinc and copper, within …

Heavy metals and soil microbes

N Abdu, AA Abdullahi, A Abdulkadir - Environmental chemistry letters, 2017 - Springer
Heavy metal pollution is a global issue due to health risks associated with metal
contamination. Although many metals are essential for life, they can be harmful to man …

Plant-driven removal of heavy metals from soil: uptake, translocation, tolerance mechanism, challenges, and future perspectives

S Thakur, L Singh, ZA Wahid, MF Siddiqui… - Environmental …, 2016 - Springer
Increasing heavy metal (HM) concentrations in the soil have become a significant problem in
the modern industrialized world due to several anthropogenic activities. Heavy metals (HMs) …

Nramp5 is a major transporter responsible for manganese and cadmium uptake in rice

A Sasaki, N Yamaji, K Yokosho, JF Ma - The Plant Cell, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Paddy rice (Oryza sativa) is able to accumulate high concentrations of Mn without showing
toxicity; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying Mn uptake are unknown. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in genes-encoding transporters for cadmium uptake, translocation, and accumulation in plants

J Tao, L Lu - Toxics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cadmium (Cd) is a heavy metal that is highly toxic for plants, animals, and human beings. A
better understanding of the mechanisms involved in Cd accumulation in plants is beneficial …

Cadmium absorption and transportation pathways in plants

Y Song, L Jin, X Wang - International journal of phytoremediation, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Controlling the uptake, transport, translocation, and accumulation of excessive amounts of
cadmium from polluted environments is critical for plants and, consequently, humans with …