Mineral nutrition of plants greatly depends on both environmental conditions, particularly of
soils, and the genetic background of the plant itself. Being sessile, plants adopted a range of …

Environmental pollution has been on the rise in the past few decades owing to increased
human activities on energy reservoirs, unsafe agricultural practices and rapid …

The reasonable disposal of plant biomass containing heavy metals (HMs) is a difficult
problem for the phytoremediation technology. This review summarizes current literature that …

Rapid industrialisation, increased rate of waste production, higher agricultural inputs,
mining, industrial waste, and contaminated irrigation water are increasing the heavy metal …

Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) such as cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), chromium (Cr), and
arsenic (As), polluting the environment, pose a significant risk and cause a wide array of …

Wastewater (WW) generated from the industries, agricultural and domestic activities produce
high amounts of nutrients, heavy metals (HMs) and chemicals that degrades the …

Nuclear power reactors are operating in 31 countries around the world. Along with reactor
operations, activities like mining, fuel fabrication, fuel reprocessing and military operations …

Lead (Pb) is one of the most widespread heavy metal contaminant in soils. It is highly toxic to
living organisms. Pb has no biological function but can cause morphological, physiological …

There has been a significant rise in the levels of heavy metals (Pb, As, Hg and Cd) due to
their increased industrial usage causing a severe concern to public health. The …

Soil and water pollution, rapid industrialization, contaminated irrigation-water, increased
waste-production and surge in agricultural land leads to the accumulation of Heavy Metals …