Widespread soil contamination with heavy metals has fostered the need for plant breeders
to develop new crops that do not accumulate heavy metals. Metal-transporting …

As a nonrenewable resource, phosphorus (P) is the second most important macronutrient for
plant growth and nutrition. Demand of phosphorus application in the agricultural production …

Iron, zinc, copper and manganese are essential metals for cellular enzyme functions while
cadmium, mercury and the metalloid arsenic lack any biological function. Both, essential …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

During their life, plants have to cope with a variety of abiotic stresses. Cadmium is highly
toxic to plants, water soluble and therefore promptly adsorbed in tissues and its presence …

Metal hyperaccumulation is a trait present in over 450 higher plant species.
Hyperaccumulators are also tolerant to metals, but hyperaccumulation and tolerance are …

Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal which harms human health. In Japan, a major source
of human Cd-intake is rice grains and contamination of paddy soils by Cd and accumulation …

In contrast with many other essential metals, the mechanisms of Mn acquisition in higher
eukaryotes are seldom studied and poorly understood. We show here that Arabidopsis …

Plants are under the continual threat of changing climatic conditions that are associated with
various types of abiotic stresses. In particular, heavy metal contamination is a major …

Cadmium (Cd) is a naturally occurring element present in all soils from both geogenic and
anthropogenic sources. The primary risk pathway to humans is exposure through dietary …