Environmental pollution with metals and xenobiotics is a global problem, and the
development of phytoremediation technologies for the plant-based clean-up of …

Heavy metals like Mn and Cu, though essential for normal plant growth and development,
can be toxic when present in excess in the environment. For normal plant growth …

Heavy metals are important environmental pollutants and their toxicity is a problem of
increasing significance for ecological, evolutionary, nutritional, and environmental reasons …

Manganese (Mn) is an essential metal nutrient for plants. Recently, some of the genes
responsible for transition metal transport in plants have been identified; however, only …

Zinc (Zn) is an essential element for the normal growth of plants but information is scarce on
the mechanisms whereby Zn is transported in rice (Oryza sativa L.) plants. Four distinct …

AtbHLH29 of Arabidopsis, encoding a bHLH protein, reveals a high similarity to the tomato
FER which is proposed as a transcriptional regulator involved in controlling the iron …

Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic element for living organisms. Its toxicity and the thereof by
calcium (Ca) in 2-week-old Arabidopsis seedlings were studied. The seedlings were treated …

This paper reviews the chemical behaviour of heavy metals in soil, the effect of heavy metals
on plants and humans, and describes phytoremediation, which is the use of green plants to …

This chapter focuses on beneficial aspects of the transition metals in plant metabolism, with
emphasis on their structural and functional roles in various metalloenzymes. It summarizes …

Cadmium is a heavy metal, which is classified as a human carcinogen and is known to be
toxic to plants. However, plants do not respond to this metal by massive cell proliferation. In …