Toxic metals and metalloids: Uptake, transport, detoxification, phytoremediation, and crop improvement for safer food

FJ Zhao, Z Tang, JJ Song, XY Huang, P Wang - Molecular plant, 2022 - cell.com
Agricultural soils are under threat of toxic metal/metalloid contamination from anthropogenic
activities, leading to excessive accumulation of arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), and …

Molecular mechanisms underlying the toxicity and detoxification of trace metals and metalloids in plants

Z Tang, HQ Wang, J Chen, JD Chang… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plants take up a wide range of trace metals/metalloids (hereinafter referred to as trace
metals) from the soil, some of which are essential but become toxic at high concentrations …

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 …

Application of CRISPR/Cas9 in crop quality improvement

Q Liu, F Yang, J Zhang, H Liu, S Rahman… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The various crop species are major agricultural products and play an indispensable role in
sustaining human life. Over a long period, breeders strove to increase crop yield and …

Emerging trends of electrocatalytic technologies for renewable hydrogen energy from seawater: Recent advances, challenges, and techno-feasible assessment

OF Aldosari, I Hussain, Z Malaibari - Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogen has been regarded as a promising renewable and green energy source to meet
energy needs and attain net-zero carbon emissions. The electrolysis of seawater to make …

Directing the research agenda on water and energy technologies with process and economic analysis

B Lee, L Wang, Z Wang, NJ Cooper… - Energy & Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Climate change is directly impacting energy consumption, water availability, and agricultural
production. Among the global efforts to address the root causes of carbon emissions …

Arsenic transport and interaction with plant metabolism: Clues for improving agricultural productivity and food safety

J Zhang, A Hamza, Z Xie, S Hussain, M Brestic… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Arsenic (As) is a ubiquitous metalloid that is highly toxic to all living organisms. When grown
in As-contaminated soils, plants may accumulate significant amounts of As in the grains or …

Strategies of anode design for seawater electrolysis: recent development and future perspective

T Haq, Y Haik - Small Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Compared with freshwater splitting, seawater electrolysis has more spaces to be explored,
which is primarily attributed to the additional critical catalytic challenges of the competition …

Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction: from Discrete Molecular Catalysts to Their Integrated Catalytic Materials

K Lei, B Yu Xia - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular catalysts (metal complexes), with molecularly defined uniform active sites and
atomically precise structural tailorability allowing for regulating catalytic performance …

Recent insights on iron based nanostructured electrocatalyst and current status of proton exchange membrane fuel cell for sustainable transport

MM Mohideen, AV Radhamani, S Ramakrishna… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bridging the performance gap of the electrocatalyst between the rotating disk electrode
(RDE) and membrane electrode assembly (MEA) level testing is the key to reducing the total …