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 …

Heavy metals are required in plants as essential micronutrients or act as toxic compounds.
How do plants perceive heavy metals and which signalling cascades are triggered leading …

Environmental pollution is one of the major problems for human health. Toxic heavy metals
are normally present as soil constituents or can also be spread out in the environment by …

Plants are exposed to various environmental challenges throughout their lifecycle that
adversely affect their growth and development. Heavy metal toxicity reduces plant …

When plants are subjected to high metal exposure, different plant species take different
strategies in response to metal-induced stress. Largely, plants can be distinguished in four …

Cadmium (Cd) is non-essential heavy metal, which in excess, exhibits deleterious effects to
the most of the organisms. Mobilization of defense mechanisms against this toxic agent …

Heavy metals are naturally occurring in the earth's crust but anthropogenic and industrial
activities have led to drastic environmental pollutions in distinct areas. Plants are able to …

Metals like zinc, iron and copper are essential micronutrients required for a wide range of
physiological processes in all plant organs for the activities of various metal-dependent …

The mining of heavy metals from the environment leads to an increase in soil pollution,
leading to the uptake of heavy metals into plant tissue. The build-up of toxic metals in plant …

Seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana were treated with Cd, and transcript populations that
changed their levels were screened by a fluorescent differential display method. Among the …