Nickel is an essential nutrient for plants. However, the amount of Ni required for normal
growth of plants is very low. Hence, with the level of Ni pollution in the environment …

The focus of the review is on the specific aspects of nickel's effects on growth, morphology,
photosynthesis, mineral nutrition and enzyme activity of plants. The mobility of nickel in the …

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 …

Chloroplast development is usually regarded as proceeding from proplastids. However,
direct or indirect conversion pathways have been described in the literature, the latter …

Environmental pollution caused by heavy metals has received worldwide attentions due to
their ubiquity, poor degradability and easy bioaccumulation in host cells. As one potential …

When cells get metals in small excess, mechanisms of avoidance occur, such as exclusion,
sequestration, or compartmentation. When the excess reaches sub-lethal concentrations …

Unbound tetrapyrroles, ie protochlorophyllide (Pchlide), chlorophyllide and chlorophylls,
bring the risk of reactive oxygen species (ROS) being generated in the initial stages of …

An increasing number of soils of poor quality with unbalanced metal concentrations are
used worldwide for crop cultivation. Even though plants are able to develop strategies to …

Environmental pollution caused by heavy metals is a global issue, which seriously affects
growth and development of agricultural crops, as well as the native flora. It is known that …

Mercury (Hg) is one of the major pollutants in soils because of the annual import of toxic Hg
into the agricultural lands. The aims of the present studies are to investigate the effect of Hg …