Medicinal plants have a wide range of uses worldwide. However, the quality of medicinal
plants is affected by severe cadmium pollution. Cadmium can reduce photosynthetic …

Abiotic stresses like heavy metals, pesticides, salinity, drought and extreme temperatures
impacting the normal growth and development of the plants and it is imperative to develop …

Cadmium (Cd) has long been recognized as toxic pollutant to crops worldwide. The
biosynthesis of glutathione-dependent phytochelatin (PC) plays crucial roles in the …

Micronutrient deficiencies (hidden hunger), particularly in iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn), remain one
of the most serious public health challenges, affecting more than three billion people …

Abstract The Zrt-/Irt-like protein (ZIP) family consists of ubiquitously expressed divalent metal
transporters critically involved in maintaining systemic and cellular homeostasis of zinc, iron …

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is an important industrial crop plant. However, it efficiently
accumulates metals, primarily cadmium (Cd) and also zinc (Zn), in its leaves. Therefore, it …

Organisms require micronutrients, and Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) IRON-
REGULATED TRANSPORTER1 (IRT1) is essential for iron (Fe2+) acquisition into root cells …

The high loss of foliar-applied fertilizers in the wet season and other extreme weather
conditions reduces fertilizer use efficiency remarkably low. Emerging nano-iron materials …

Toxic metal pollution requires significant adjustments in plant metabolism. Here, we show
that the plant microbiota plays an important role in this process. The endophytic …

Engineering of transporters to alter substrate specificity as desired holds great potential for
applications, including metabolic engineering. However, the lack of knowledge on molecular …