Contribution of glutathione to the control of cellular redox homeostasis under toxic metal and metalloid stress

LE Hernández, J Sobrino-Plata… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The accumulation of toxic metals and metalloids, such as cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), or
arsenic (As), as a consequence of various anthropogenic activities, poses a serious threat to …

Cadmium-inducible expression of the ABC-type transporter AtABCC3 increases phytochelatin-mediated cadmium tolerance in Arabidopsis

P Brunetti, L Zanella, A De Paolis… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The heavy metal cadmium (Cd) is a widespread environmental contaminant with harmful
effects on living cells. In plants, phytochelatin (PC)-dependent Cd detoxification requires that …

Cross-tolerance to abiotic stresses in halophytes: application for phytoremediation of organic pollutants

M Shiri, M Rabhi, A El Amrani, C Abdelly - Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2015 - Springer
Halophytes are plants able to tolerate high salt concentrations but no clear definition was
retained for them. In literature, there are more studies that showed salt-enhanced tolerance …

Brassica napus responses to short-term excessive copper treatment with decrease of photosynthetic pigments, differential expression of heavy metal homeostasis genes …

IE Zlobin, VP Kholodova, ZF Rakhmankulova… - Photosynthesis …, 2015 - Springer
In the present study, the influence of 50 and 100 µM CuSO 4 was investigated starting from 3
h till 72 h treatment of 4-weeks Brassica napus plants. High CuSO 4 concentrations in …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive engineering of phytochelatin-based heavy metal tolerance

RE Cahoon, WK Lutke, JC Cameron, S Chen… - Journal of Biological …, 2015 - ASBMB
Metabolic engineering approaches are increasingly employed for environmental
applications. Because phytochelatins (PC) protect plants from heavy metal toxicity …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity and evolution of ABC proteins in mycorrhiza-forming fungi

A Kovalchuk, A Kohler, F Martin, FO Asiegbu - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2015 - Springer
Background Transporter proteins are predicted to have an important role in the mycorrhizal
symbiosis, due to the fact that this type of an interaction between plants and fungi requires a …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular responses of plants to environmental heavy metal contamination: lead and the use of sunflower in phytoremediation

S Tsvetkov, S Doncheva - Genetics and Plant Physiology, 2015 - bio21.bas.bg
Plants are susceptible to heavy metal toxicity and in order to avoid its detrimental effects they
respond in a variety of ways. The toxic effect depends on the type of metal, ion …