Cadmium (Cd) is a major environmental contaminant due to its widespread industrial use.
Cd contamination of soil and water is rather classical but has emerged as a recent problem …

Plants encounter various abiotic stresses due to their sessile nature which include heavy
metals, salt, drought, nutrient deficiency, light intensity, pesticide contamination, as well as …

Among heavy metals, nickel, cadmium and lead have received a particular attention not only
as potent hazards to human health but also given their constant increase in the environment …

A range of man-made activities promote the enrichment of world-wide agricultural soils with
a myriad of chemical pollutants including cadmium (Cd). Owing to its significant toxic …

Heavy metal (HMs) contamination is widespread globally due to anthropogenic,
technogenic, and geogenic activities. The HMs exposure could lead to multiple toxic effects …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

Cadmium is a potentially toxic heavy metal that hampers plant productivity by interfering with
their photochemistry. Cd causes disturbances in a range of physiological processes of …

Cadmium (Cd) is a non-essential and toxic element, without any metabolic significance
whereas, zinc (Zn) is an essential element required by many vital enzymes, and plays a …

The interaction between an essential micronutrient, Zn and a toxic non-essential element,
Cd has been comprehensively reviewed based on our experiments conducted with …

Laboratory and field studies have provided encouraging insights into the capacity of plants
to act as biomonitors of environmental quality through the use of biomarkers. However, a …