Heavy metal contamination in agricultural soil: environmental pollutants affecting crop health

A Rashid, BJ Schutte, A Ulery, MK Deyholos, S Sanogo… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Heavy metals and metalloids (HMs) are environmental pollutants, most notably cadmium,
lead, arsenic, mercury, and chromium. When HMs accumulate to toxic levels in agricultural …

Toxicity of heavy metals in plants and animals and their uptake by magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles

AU Rehman, S Nazir, R Irshad, K Tahir… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Heavy metal exist naturally in environment, but due to human and some natural activities
they have been entered to water bodies, air and soil and have become one of the major …

Accumulation of chromium in plants and its repercussion in animals and humans

RT Kapoor, MFB Mfarrej, P Alam, J Rinklebe… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The untreated effluents released from industrial operations have adverse impacts on human
health, environment and socio-economic aspects. Environmental pollution due to chromium …

Heavy metal stress and some mechanisms of plant defense response

A Emamverdian, Y Ding… - The scientific world …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Unprecedented bioaccumulation and biomagnification of heavy metals (HMs) in the
environment have become a dilemma for all living organisms including plants. HMs at toxic …

Physiological and transcriptomic analysis provide molecular insight into 24-epibrassinolide mediated Cr (VI)-toxicity tolerance in pepper plants

MA Mumtaz, Y Hao, S Mehmood, H Shu, Y Zhou… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ever-increasing industrial activities over the decades have generated high toxic metals
such as chromium (Cr) that hampers plant growth and development. To counter Cr-toxicity …

Chromium mediated damaging effects on growth, nitrogen metabolism and chlorophyll synthesis in tomato can be alleviated by foliar application of melatonin and …

C Qin, H Lian, FM Alqahtani, MA Ahanger - Scientia Horticulturae, 2024 - Elsevier
Efficiency of methyl-jasmonate (5 µM Me-J) priming and the foliar application of melatonin
(100 µM ML) in assuaging the deleterious effects of chromium (Cr) toxicity on growth …

Recent advances in abiotic stress tolerance of plants through chemical priming: an overview

MA Ashraf, A Akbar, SH Askari, M Iqbal… - Advances in seed …, 2018 - Springer
Plants under natural conditions often face multiple environmental constraints in terms of
submergence, temperature extremes, salinity, and drought stress. Plant growth and …

Effect of heavy metals on growth and development of cultivated plants with reference to cadmium, chromium and lead–a review

PM Madhu, RS Sadagopan - Journal of Stress Physiology & …, 2020 - cyberleninka.ru
Heavy metals are elements that are naturally present in the environment. However
anthropogenic activities such as the production of industrial wastes and domestic effluents …

Gentle remediation options for soil with mixed chromium (VI) and lindane pollution: biostimulation, bioaugmentation, phytoremediation and vermiremediation

RG Lacalle, JD Aparicio, U Artetxe… - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Abstract Gentle Remediation Options (GROs), such as biostimulation, bioaugmentation,
phytoremediation and vermiremediation, are cost-effective and environmentally-friendly …

Protective role of selenium against chromium stress involving metabolites and essential elements in Brassica juncea L. seedlings

N Handa, SK Kohli, AK Thukral, R Bhardwaj… - 3 Biotech, 2018 - Springer
The present study aimed at the potential role of selenium in providing protection to plants
subjected to chromium toxicity. The study was carried out on 15-day-old seedlings of …