Chromium (Cr) is a toxic heavy metal that is heavily discharged into the soil environment
due to its widespread use and mining. High Cr levels may pose toxic hazards to plants …

Presence of heavy metals in agricultural soils is of major environmental concern and a great
threat to life on the earth. A number of human health risks are associated with heavy metals …

Most of the heavy metals (HMs), and metals/metalloids are released into the nature either by
natural phenomenon or anthropogenic activities. Being sessile organisms, plants are …

The term “hyperaccumulator” describes a number of plants that belong to distantly related
families, but share the ability to grow on metalliferous soils and to accumulate extraordinarily …

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 …

Contamination of aquatic ecosystems by various sources has become a major worry all over
the world. Pollutants can enter the human body through the food chain from aquatic and soil …

Synchrotron techniques have become key components of the toolbox for studying the
mechanisms involved in metal (loid) uptake and metabolism in plants. Most widely used …

Intraspecific variation refers to the genotypic (genetic) and resulting phenotypic
(morphological and physiological) variation found within a species. Variation within a …

Hydroponic experiments were conducted to investigate the variation of root exudates from
the hyperaccumulator Sedum alfredii under the stress of cadmium (Cd). S. alfredii was …

Revealing the uptake, transport, localization and speciation of both essential and toxic
elements in plants is important for understanding plant homeostasis and metabolism …